Fwd: Museums: Inaugurations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980230063 ISBN 13: 9780980230062

Publisher: Bridge Art, Nfp, 2016

Synopsis

Museums, like all other social institutions, reflect the tensions and contradictions of their times. The Museum and Exhibition Studies (MUSE) Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago proposes that museum problems, including declining attendance, homogenous employee and visitor demographics, and inequitable workplaces, and are deeply seeded in the field and its professions and that remedies will require radical reimagining and change. 

Responding to the urgencies of the moment and recognizing the need to transform museums and our cultural work within their spaces, MUSE offers this new journal. Fwd: Museums signals a desire to lift up and forward ideas that might push our collective thinking about cultural work. 

This volume explores the theme of inaugurations, or firsts and beginnings, with over 20 contributions from scholars and creative practitioners.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 Welcome by Therese Quinn

3 Introduction by Devin Malone

4 Acknowledgements & Publication Team

5 My Art Museum Mission by LaTanya S. Autry

6 The Visitors of Color Project: Centering and Privileging People (in the Margins of Museums) by Porchia Moore and nikhil trivedi

7 A Doodled Vision for a Latino Museum by Ranald Woodaman

8 Querida Xicanita by Stephanie Hernández

9 Exhibit Review - Stevie Hanley's "Synaesthetica" by Evelyn Yeung 

10 The First Time I was Made into an Art Object by Melissa Romeo

11 The Object Effect by Nora Sternfeld

12 Her Room as an Exhibit by Elizabeth Anh Thomson

13 Exhibit Review - Lonely Amid the Crowd: Laura Davis at Threewalls by Elizabeth Lalley

14 My First Digital Exhibit: Mr. Boller's Scrapbook by April Lynne Earle

15 Face Value: Identity and Adaptation in Chicago's Chinatown by Jacob Yeung

16 The Virtual Museum of the Bulgarians in North America: Shared Heritage and Intercultural Communications by Dilyana Ivanova

17 My First Scathing Letter to the Editor by Javairia Shahid

18 Trauma Memory Healing: Exhibiting the August 7th 1998 Bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi by Dr. Kiprop Lagat

19 Book Review - Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display by Emese R. Toth

20 Jotería Undocumented by Gabriela S. Hernandez Martinez

21 It Would Be My Honor to Work for Free by Sarah Padilla

22 Museums Respond to Black Lives Matter & Beyond: A 5 Part Retrospective by Monica O. Montgomery

23 Human Rights Abuses Committed by the Guggenheim and Louvre Museums on Saadiyat Island by Kara Hendrickson

24 Audio Description; Say What You See by Elizabeth Anh Thomson

25 A Very Brave and Courageous Thing: Museums and the Power to Reshape Historic Narratives of People of Color by Jackie Peterson

26 Book Review - Anarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums by Elizabeth Lalley

27 #FERGUSON_SEA: A 10 Day Study in Social Media and Responsive Programming by Leilani Lewis and Chieko Phillips

28 De museos, identidades, jóvenes y desplazamientos en el Trópico de Capricornio by Jorge Arturo Albuja Tutivén

29 Promises to My Future Self by Courtney Sass

About this title

About the Author

Therese Quinn, editor of Fwd: Museums, is the Director of Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This journal is produced by a publication collective.

From the Back Cover

Fwd: Museums, an inclusive, cross-disciplinary publication, shares interventions, experiments, and community dialogues within and outside of museums. In our first issue you will find artwork, essays and other creative forms that explore topics such as:

• Taking initiative in making spaces accessible, dynamic, and transparent
• Human rights, labor issues, and the museum workforce
• Intersectionality and representation in museum spaces
• Serving and collaborating with local communities while maintaining a global perspective

From the Inside Flap

The Fwd: Museums publication team selected and edited content in collaboration with contributors.

Cover image: Ranald Woodaman, A Doodled Vision for a Latino Museum (detail)

Edition details

• Publisher: Bridge Art, Nfp
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0980230063
• ISBN 13: 9780980230062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Quinn Therese, Hernández Sarita