On Collaboration, Context, and Counterpoints: An Online Conversation Series on Museum Practice In conjunction with A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence, a national group of curators, educators, and scholars will share their reflections on museum practice, engaging communities with care, and exhibiting challenging material related to race, violence, and our shared histories.
On Collaboration
On Counterpoints
Wednesday, April 13 from 6:00-7:30 PM CT
Wednesday, April 27 from 6-7:30pm CT
This conversation features reflections on curatorial approaches to collaborating with communities—those within and outside of the museum—and shaping a shared vision around exhibitions engaging with the issue of racial violence. With Allison Glenn, curator and writer, co-curator of Counterpublic triennial; Kymberly Pinder, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art; and Jontyle Robinson, Curator & Assistant Professor, The Legacy Museum, Tuskegee University. Moderated by Bridget R. Cooks, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies and Department of Art History, University of California Irvine.
This conversation focuses on exhibition-making as a form of activism, the presentation of counternarratives, and efforts to incite institutional change. With La Tanya S. Autry, Cultural Organizer and Independent Curator, Black Liberation Center; Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, Associate Director of Outreach and Operations at American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center; and Krystal Strong, Assistant Professor in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division, University of Pennsylvania. Moderated by Alisa Swindell, Associate Curator of Photography at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College and former Block Museum Curatorial Research Associate for A Site of Struggle.
On Context Wednesday, April 20 from 6-7:30pm CT
This conversation focuses on a case study of the exhibition, Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural. The panelists explore considerations around its presentation, campus and community engagement, and programmatic strategies at three academic art museums located in different regions of the country. With Maurita Poole, Director of the Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University, former Director and Curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University; Molleen Theodore, Associate Curator of Programs, Yale University Art Gallery; and Tilly Woodward, Curator of Academic and Community Outreach, Grinnell College Museum of Art. Moderated by Lucy Mensah, Assistant Professor of Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Art & Art History.
Originating at Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art, the exhibition explores how artists have engaged with the reality of antiBlack violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100+ year period. The exhibition will tour to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama during August 13-November 6, 2022. The three-part online conversation series is free and open to the public. For more information, visit our website: blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/events To RSVP for the Zoom series
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