Author Archives: the incluseum
Unfinished. Revisiting HORSE, a Pre-COVID Project to Support Social Action in Rural Museums Part 1
Over the next four blogposts, Zachary Stocks (@Museumorphosis) will be sharing with us a project he created called Heritage Organizations for Rural Social Equity (HORSE). We welcome this focus on smaller and rural cultural heritage organization since they often get left out of the greater conversations related to equity work in museums. Part 2 of […]
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: “From Small Wins to Sweeping Change: Internal Initiatives to Foster Equity, Inclusion, & Anti-Racism in Museums”
Editors Priya Frank (Seattle Art Museum) and Theresa Sotto (Hammer Museum) are seeking chapter authors to “From Small Wins to Sweeping Change: Internal Initiatives to Foster Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism in Museums,” to inform a book proposal for the American Alliance of Museums with an anticipated publication date of 2022. This call for proposals is […]
When You Worked at a Museum
As museums look to create more equitable work environments, we are excited to see that museum workers are coming from a variety of backgrounds, majors, and industries. The museum field benefits so much by this diversity of thought, experience and perspective. But we (Priya Frank, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Seattle Art Museum + […]
MASS Action Analysis and Survey is Live!
A month ago, we shared a post about the launch of MASS Action’s accountability campaign. On Friday MASS Action shared the data, methodology and analysis behind their assessment of over 1000 accredited museum’s racial equity statements and commitments made over the course of this Summer in the midst of our nation’s racial equity uprising. We […]
When You Worked At A Museum
As museums look to create more equitable work environments, we are excited to see that museum workers are coming from a variety of backgrounds, majors, and industries. The museum field benefits so much by this diversity of thought, experience and perspective. But we (Priya Frank, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Seattle Art Museum + […]
When you worked at a museum
As museums look to create more equitable work environments, we are excited to see that museum workers are coming from a variety of backgrounds, majors, and industries. The museum field benefits so much by this diversity of thought, experience and perspective. But we (Priya Frank, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion + Aletheia Wittman, Incluseum […]
Announcing the MASS Action Accountability Campaign
Today, MASS Action is publicly announcing an Accountability campaign. “We were curious, after the carefully-crafted social media posts were made, and the audience’s responses dutifully monitored and managed, what is happening inside these museums? Are institutions still engaged in the anti-racism solidarity work that they signaled on social media? With these questions in mind, we […]
When you worked at a museum
As museums look to create more equitable work environments, we are excited to see that museum workers are coming from a variety of backgrounds, majors, and industries. The museum field benefits so much by this diversity of thought, experience and perspective. But we (Priya Frank, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Seattle Art […]
Book announcement – Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art: A Practical Guide
We recently spoke to British museum professional and academic Jade French (twitter: @jadefrench and instagram: @french.jade) about her new book Inclusive Curating in Contemporary Art. We asked her to reflect on how her book contributes to the demystification of curation and what she learned from the artist-curators she worked with to create the 2017 exhibit […]
Reflexive Cartography: Or, A Ritual For the Dying Museum Landscape – The Socio-political Impact of Change in Museums
This blogpost is authored by Dr. Porchia Moore, who has been an Advisor and Regular Contributing Writer to The Incluseum for many years. This post is Part 2 in a 3-part series…so stay tuned! You can read Part 1 here. Dr. Moore is Department Head and Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at the University of […]
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