Category: Best Practices
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Including the 21st Century Family
In addition to our exhibition The Power of Labeling, we’ve recently hosted several blog posts that explored language and the power of words and labels. Porchia Moore, for example, discussed how words like “diversity” hold implicit meanings and I (Rose) wrote about how the MAH’s reframing museums jobs through the wording of their job descriptions. This…
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Exhibit Opening: An Introduction to The Power of Labeling
As you might have picked up by now, the Incluseum rethinks how institutional cultural spaces operate. Wanting to expand beyond the blog and experiment with a traditional museum function, we asked: What would a digital exhibition look like and what would its process be if inclusion is THE central and driving value? This question led…
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Seven Ways to make the Museum System a Better Place for People of Color
The following post is as much candid reflection on the status quo in museums as it is,we feel, a call to action. Hannah Hong Frelot names the inequitable status quo in museums, focusing in on pervasive racial inequity, and presents the ways we may address these inequities directly. A trap for museums is to fall into complacency.…
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Towards an Inclusive Museum: California Association of Museums Panel or Roundtable Proposal
Are you a museum educator working towards greater inclusion in your museum? Kate Zankowicz, Museum Educator at the Royal Ontario Museum and regular Incluseum blogger is looking to form a panel on inclusion in museums for the California Association of Museums and is seeking your participation! Kate: I’m looking for a few collaborators for a…
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Opportunities at AAM
Conferences can be both exciting and overwhelming. The first time I attended AAM, I remember having a hard time meeting people to talk and make connections with about what matters most to me, inclusion in museums. This year, in addition to presentation sessions pertaining broadly to the topic, there are several opportunities you can take…
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Rethinking Museum Jobs at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, CA
Through my work with the Incluseum, I’ve become convinced that all aspects of the museum-as-we-know-it will have to be transformed in deep ways if the value of inclusion is to become a central and foundational commitment. This is why I get excited when I come across what I call “museum ways of being” that deviate from the…
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Radical Trust
This month, our regular contributor Porchia Moore expands on the concept of Radical Trust she introduced in her last blog post for us. This form of trust is fundamental to her vision of the Kaleidoscope Museums, a museum that is, at its core, racially diverse and in which visitors of all backgrounds see themselves reflected in…
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(Re)Connection in Collaboration: Zuni Collection Reviews at the Indian Arts Research Center
Patricia Baudino was a contributing author to the volume of the Journal of Museums and Social Issues we guest edited a year ago. In this piece, she discusses research she’s been conducting as part of her internship at the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), which examines the exchange of information between the IARC and local source communities.…
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Double Take: The Art of Amalgam and stereo*type*
In this post The Incluseum highlights the new work of some of Seattle’s industrious artists… *** Two recent exhibits have disrupted the reliability of the first impression. The artwork prompts a second, longer, deeper look. Right now at Gallery4Culture (until Friday) you can visit Dave Kennedy’s Amalgam and experience a body of work that playfully and concisely draws…
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The Power of Labeling: Launching An Online Incluseum Exhibit
The Incluseum has been expanding lately; partnering with new regular blog contributors, as well as participating in public art projects and guest editing a journal focused on social issues and museums. We have had aspirations to expand the function of the Incluseum blog into a project that includes more real-time programming. We thought long and hard…