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You are Invited: Inlcuseum Happy Hour Event
In anticipation of the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting and Expo in Seattle (our home sweet home) this year, we have planned a coinciding May Happy Hour Event! Whether you are an Incluseum reader, supporter or blogger from near or far (and in town for AAM or just because) we hope you will consider joining…
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The Journey of Co-Creating Change Makers
We recently interviewed Nina Simon, director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and learned about the museum’s new teen program. This week, we are excited to introduce this program on the Incluseum! Our guest blogger, Emily Hope Dobkin, current Youth Programs Manager at the MAH, will share the process through which the program came…
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Incluseum featured on Museum Minute’s “Meet a Museum Blogger”!
Thanks to Jamie Glavic and Museum Minute for their feature on the Incluseum, part of the “Meet a Museum Blogger” initiative. This is our reblog of the original post. Remember to check it out on Museum Minute as well!
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Cheers to new ideas and numerous perspectives!
As the year comes to end, we’re enjoying reflecting on what has happened over the last 12 months… So what have we (The Incluseum) been up to ’round here in 2013? Here are some highlights: We participated in the Arts and Social Change Symposium and Summit. We were interviewed on our work with the Incluseum…
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Museum Studies Students Facilitate Discussions about Race/Racism in a Museum
In conjunction with the Race: Are We So Different exhibit currently on view at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA, students from the University of Washington’s Museology masters program had the opportunity to sign up for a ground-breaking class centered on the following questions: What is the U.S. concept of race? What do racism…
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Nina Simon on Bridging and Beyond at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Recently, Nina Simon, the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and Museum 2.0 extraordinaire, joined me (Aletheia) in a conversation/interview about social bridging, the limits of social bridging, working with community service providers to best support participating communities, as well as anti-bias visitor education and changing museums through hiring practices.…
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Understanding Inclusion One Museum Educator at a Time
I (Rose) had the pleasure of meeting Kate Zankowicz in October at the Object Matter: Making History in Museums Conference. We enthusiastically conversed about our respective research interests and I got to hear about the unexpected discoveries Kate had made along her journey as a PhD student. In this blogpost, she shares a little about her…
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What Lies Beyond the Paraphrase?: Community Voices in Museums
Do you ever wonder how to better include the perspectives of community members in your exhibitions? This week, Andrea Michelbach shares with the Incluseum highlights of her experience interning for the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, WA. She reflects on community voices and the mechanisms that might encourage or discourage their amplification in museum exhibitions. *…
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Access Indy: Creating a Community of Practice
We’re delighted to host Kris Johnson on the Incluseum again! Over the last year, she blogged for us twice and shared her experiences as a grad student working on issues of access in museums (read her other contributions here and here). She recently graduated from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’s (IUPUI) Museum Studies program and is now…
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Chinatown Community Think Tank – Engaging Chinese Speaking Communities Part 2
This week we are publishing the second part of a guest post by Alvis Choi (aka Alvis Parsley), an artist with a social practice based in Toronto. You can find Part 1 here. Alvis is sharing reflections about a recent project they initiated, Chinatown Community Think Tank. * * * * I am currently working on a publication…