Resources for Academic Art Museum Professionals
The podcast The Henceforward came to fruition via a graduate course called “Decolonization, Settler Colonialism and Antiblackness” taught by Eve Tuck at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at The University of Toronto. Much of the first season was recorded on site at the Black Lives Matter Toronto’s Tent City. [The Henceforward]
In collaboration with the Drexel Collection, a student-led research project examined the history of LGBTQ+ students of the university, past LGBTQ clubs including the present Queer Student Union (QSU), and the university’s response to the AIDS epidemic. [Drexel University]
The director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, Kaywin Feldman and Bryan Stevenson, public interest lawyer and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discuss educational initiatives to change how American museums serve the public. [ARTnews]
In Episode 70: “Erika Gets the Job Done,” hosts FavyFav (2018 recipient of the Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for International Artist) and Babelito (Ph.D. in Ibero-America colonial art history from the University of New Mexico) discuss Lantinx representation in the media and in Las Vegas with Professor Erika Gisela Abad of University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies department. [University of Nevada, Las Vegas News Center]
Please use this link to listen to the podcast: Latinos Who Lunch
A Symposium for Transformative Practice
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
February 17-18 2020
UF Museum Studies 20th Anniversary Symposium
In 2000, the University of Florida (UF) established a graduate program in Museum Studies. In the last twenty years, museums and museum professions have undergone critical transformations. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the program and the radical changes in Museum Studies and museums, UF is convening a symposium to examine the history and future of museums and museum professionals challenging ideas and practices in order to shape transformational knowledge and experiences.
The UF Museum Studies program states: “We believe museums can change the world.” Thus, the program centers the transformational power of museums. At this interdisciplinary symposium, we will focus on museums and Museum Studies programs:
Twenty-years ago Stephen Weil posited that American museums were in a moment of great transformation, shifting from “Being about Something to Being for Somebody.” No longer able to be ‘salvage and warehouse business[s]’, he argued that it was imperative for museums to become more entrepreneurial and to demonstrate their impact and advocate for their value. In the decades prior to Weil’s essay, New Museology or New Museum Theory established a critical discourse for museum practice around how museums construct knowledge, engage with communities, and operate in society. Pierre Mayrand argued that this critical discourse “mobilize[d] the supporters of the radical transformation of the aims of museology, and advocates profound changes in the thinking and attitudes of the museologist.”
Today, museums continue to strive to assert their public value and critically engage with the systems and structures upon which they have been built. Many museums have shed guises of neutrality. Museum professionals are positioning their work and institutions as inherently engaged with justice, representation, and addressing historic traumas. Some museums have taken more overt stances to address critical contemporary social issues such hate crime, genocide, migration, mass incarceration, racism, and climate change through their collections and programs.
This symposium celebrates the work of museums, Museum Studies, and our communities over the past twenty years. In doing so, this program looks to the future as we work together for a more just and equitable world.
We seek proposals for participation in the symposium in various formats:
A publication in the form of an edited volume is planned. Selected participants will be asked to contribute to this publication with texts due in Feb 2020.
Proposals Due: Monday, August 26th
Acceptance Notifications: by Friday, September 20th
Proposal for each formats should include:
If you have inquiries about the symposium or the proposal process you may send them to:
museumschallenge@arts.ufl.edu
The Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI) is an interdisciplinary program at the University of Kansas and the Spencer Museum of Art, which supports research and collaboration between the arts and other disciplines through research fellowships, visiting scholars and creative specialists, forums, and publications. The gift of $650,000 from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ensures the program’s continuation for the next five years. [The University of Kansas]
The Smart Museum of Art partners with Chicago-based artists and educators with a focus on addressing issues in institutional practice, such as the Interpreter in Residence program. [Smart Museum]
College Art Association CAA2020 annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA, February 12 – 15, 2020
[1] Selling and buying anonymity
[2] What Can Art Say About Extinction?
[3] The Collector and Cultural Narratives
[4] The Image of the Female Artist
[5] Kitsch and Craft in the Middle Ages
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A week-long program held at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) offered students from historically black colleges and universities the opportunity to learn hands-on conservation techniques and expose the aspiring scholars to the networks and careers within the cultural heritage sector. [YaleNews]
CAA presents two annual Distinguished Feminist Awards: one presented to a visual artist or designer who, through outstanding efforts in their practice or advocacy, has advanced the cause of equality for women in the arts; one presented to a scholar who, through outstanding efforts in their scholarship, curatorial practice, or advocacy, has advanced the cause of equality for women in the arts. This award was established in 2007 to honor a person who, through their art, scholarship, or advocacy, has advanced the cause of equality for women in the arts. From 1996 to 2008, this award was presented as an Annual Recognition Award by CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts (CWA) at a ceremony at the Annual Conference.
Since 2009, the Distinguished Feminist Award has honored such influential leaders in the visual arts field as Griselda Pollock, Faith Ringgold, Lucy R. Lippard, and many more.
The Excellence in Diversity Award, established in 2017, recognizes outstanding efforts in arts programming, projects, and/or scholarship to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. The award may be made to either an institution or individual for demonstrated and significant advancement of diversity in non-profit institutions such as colleges or universities, museums or galleries, foundations, and/or cultural agencies, especially in areas related to including, embracing, and/or enhancing opportunities for people of all ages, cultures, ethnicities, religions/faiths, genders, differing abilities, and/or sexual orientations.
Nominations are due September 4, 2019. Nominations should be sent by email to Cali Buckley, CAA Grants and Special Programs Manager, at cbuckley@collegeart.org. For more information about award requirements and qualifications, please visit: http://www.collegeart.org/programs/awards/nominations