Category: Culture, Heritage, & Identity
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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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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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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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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 Museum as Kaleidoscope
In her last couple posts, our regular contributor Porchia Moore encouraged us to re-think how we speak of and envision diversity and open authority in museums. This month, she shares with us her vision for what she has coined the “Kaleidoscope Museum”, a museum that is, at its core, racially diverse and in which visitors of…
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Re-thinking Narrative Production in Museums through Digital Storytelling Workshops
The last couple blogpost we published focused on Revealing Queer, an exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Industry and History in Seattle, WA that was spearheaded by Queering the Museum (QTM) and relied on a community-based approach to curation (read: Part 1 and Part 2). Today, we host Nicole Robert, Doctoral Candidate in Feminist Studies…
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The Road to Revealing Queer: An Interview with Curator Erin Bailey, Part II
Recently, Jana Greenslit, Incluseum contributor and intern (read more about Jana on our About page) sat down with Erin Bailey to discuss the Revealing Queer exhibit at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) and the project the exhibit emerged out of, Queering the Museum. Because Revealing Queer has recently opened and is on view to the public we hope that…
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The Road to Revealing Queer: An Interview with Curator Erin Bailey, Part I
Recently, Jana Greenslit, Incluseum contributor and intern (read more about Jana on our About page) sat down with Erin Bailey to discuss the Revealing Queer exhibit at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) and the project the exhibit emerged out of, Queering the Museum. Because Revealing Queer has recently opened and is on view…
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Shifting Paradigms: The Case for Co-Creation and New Discourses of Participation
After a long break, we’re excited to host our second blogpost from our regular contributor, Porchia Moore (find her first post here). This month, she discusses the topic of Open Authority in museums with a focus on what this concept might mean for communities of color as visitors. She invites us to think critically about…