Last week, Kawsay Ukhunchay curators welcomed Professor Carlos Rivas, specializing in Latin American Art, and Professor Aaron Katzeman whose work focuses on decolonial museum studies, to the Collection to discuss their work and explore a potential collaboration between Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art Research Collection and the History of Art Department at Ohio State University.
The Kawsay Ukhunchay Remote Displays initiative, which give visibility to the Collection across campus, provided the opportunity to collaborate around curricular integration with History of Art classes and use the remote display essentially as a mini practicum site.
Kawsay Ukhunchay has three remote displays across campus. One at the Barnett Center of Integrated Arts and Enterprise, (located in Sullivant Hall 141) focused on Tigua art and artists at the intersection of indigenous artistic production, indigenous entrepreneurship, and global arts markets. A second cabinet at the Humanities Institute (located in Hagerty Hall 455) in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Religion on religion, ritual, and shamanism. And now our third cabinet in Pomerene Hall in the History of Art Department. Each remote display seeks to intersect with different disciplines for unique configurations of research inquiry. If you’re in these buildings be sure to look for our displays, which we endeavor to mobilize as a resource to the university community.
If you or your department is interested in a collaboration with Kawsay Ukhunchay’s Collection, please reach out to Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman at wibbelsman.1@osu.edu