The Metropolitan Museum Shrouded a Mark Chagall Painting to Draw Attention to World Refugee Day
Author: Dana
Museums Are Contested Sites, Post I
Resources for Art Museum and Medical School Partnerships
“Medical students, interns, residents, and fellows are taught to look at works of art and in turn relate these skills to their own professional practices. By doing so, they develop observation, interpretation, empathy, and collaboration skills in order to enhance their clinical diagnosis and practices.
The following resources have been collected from participants in the field.”
EDUCAUSE acquired the New Media Consortium
Forgive me for being late with this news, but this is exciting!
https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2018/2/nmc-update
“Like so many of you, we were deeply saddened to learn of the dissolution of the New Media Consortium (NMC) in December. I shared at the time our intention to complete the Horizon Report: 2018 Higher Education Edition. The following month, we made the decision to offer to purchase NMC assets. I’m pleased to share the update that the court has accepted our offer, agreeing that it is in the best interests of the organization and the NMC community.”
Find previous reports here: https://library.educause.edu/search#?publicationandcollection_search=Horizon%20Report
Where Does Major American Art Come From? Mapping the Whitney Biennial
“The first Whitney Annual in 1932 was transgressive. The museum was a one-year-old fledgling, set in a rowhouse on West Eighth Street. Its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a collector and heiress, but also a serious sculptor. Invited artists chose what work they showed.
In 1973, the exhibition became a Biennial, and its history is the history of American modern and contemporary art. Or, at least one version of that history: one centered in New York City, one heavily white and male. That is no longer the case. This year, a majority of the show’s artists are women, and they are racially and ethnically diverse. New York, however, remains home to nearly half of them.
Until 1975, the exhibition catalogs listed the addresses of the artists who were included each year. Mapping these locations tells a story of influence and power — but also one of friendships and creative communities, of housing prices and economic change, of landscape and light. Here are some of its facets.”
The Museum Scholar: New Journal
The Museum Scholar (TMS) accepts manuscripts or multi-media work that provide empirical or theoretical-based material of broad interest to the international museum community. Submissions are welcome from all emerging professionals, museum students, recent graduates, and post-docs from any country.
Texts may consider any type of museum including: Art Museums, Science Museums, History Museums, Children’s Museums, Historic Homes, Libraries, and Archives. There is no fee to publish in TMS, and each article is free to read.
Embracing Empathy and Confronting American Racism in Museums
Kaywin Feldman is director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. When she assumed her post this spring, as the first woman to lead the institution, she followed a nearly three-decade stint by Earl “Rusty” Powell III as the leader of a museum established in 1937 with a donation by financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon and subsequently supported by federal and private funds. Prior to the National Gallery, Feldman served as director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where she created a Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts and presented exhibitions such as “Art and Healing: In the Moment,” a group show in 2018 inspired by the police-shooting death of Philando Castile in Minnesota two years earlier. She is also a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors and a past chair of the American Alliance of Museums.
Bryan Stevenson is a public interest lawyer and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a socially minded advocacy organization based in Montgomery, Alabama. Last year, he and EJI established the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery with a shared purpose to tell stories of slavery and racism in America. The memorial in a six-acre park includes 800 large steel monuments, one for every county in the U.S. where a historical racial terror lynching has been reported. The museum one block away is near a dock and rail station where tens of thousands of black people were trafficked during the 19th century. Stevenson is the author of several books, including the best-selling Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014). He also gave a talk, at Feldman’s invitation, at the “Art and Healing” exhibition in Minneapolis, as well as the keynote speech at this year’s annual meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors.
Feldman and Stevenson convened for a conversation at the ARTnews office in New York.
OF/BY/FOR ALL
Nina Simon is coming to the Cincinnati Nature Center on August 22, 2o19.
Named a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine, Nina Simon is the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and the founder of the OF/BY/FOR ALL movement, a global initiative to help civic and cultural organizations become more relevant, resilient, and inclusive. Nina is the best-selling author of The Participatory Museum, The Art of Relevance and the popular Museum 2.0 blog. She has worked as a consultant and exhibition designer with more than 100 museums and cultural centers around the world.
POW Arts Salary Survey
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The POWarts Salary Survey was developed by POWarts in collaboration with Maricar Mabutas, MS, Research Scientist at the NYC Department of Finance, and Ging Cee Ng, PhD, Associate at Analysis Group Inc. The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect that of the NYC Department of Finance or Analysis Group, Inc.
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Graphics by @msjonesnyc.
Call for Submissions: Assemblage
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Assemblage
An exhibition of work by alumni, faculty, and students
Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy at Ohio State
Tuesday, October 1 to Saturday, November 9, 2019
City Center Gallery at the OSU Urban Arts Space
50 West Town Street, Suite 130, Columbus, OH, 43215
Assemblage has two distinct definitions: the first refers to three-dimensional works of art comprised of natural, found, and ready-made objects that are permanently attached to a foundation. The second is a theoretical understanding of the ways in which we as knowers, creators, and producers become entangled and are continually rearranged—or assembled— in relationship to one another.
Assemblage serves as a metaphor for the myriad forms of creative work that emerge from members of our transdisciplinary academic department. The arts serve as the foundation of our work, the underpinnings on which we build creative lives as artists, educators, makers, scholars, and cultural workers. Our collective work in those realms overlaps, propels, and evokes continual movement for our colleagues, our students, and our world. The works of visual art in this exhibition are reflections of the rich trajectories of the students, alumni, and faculty of AAEP @ OSU.
This exhibition is curated by Dana Carlisle Kletchka, assistant professor of art museum education in AAEP, and presented by the talented staff of the Urban Arts Space, a gallery and reciprocal learning space for students, faculty, and staff of The Ohio State University as well as the Columbus, OH community.
Terms and Conditions
Information and Eligibility
Open to all current faculty, adjunct faculty, instructors, undergraduate and graduate students, and alumni of the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy (or their previous iterations) at the Ohio State University.
Entry Deadline
Send up to three color jpgs of each submission to kletckha.1@osu.edu by August 1, 2019 @ midnight. You are welcome to submit up to three work of art. Artists are responsible for shipping or delivering works of art to UAS.
Dates of Exhibition
Tuesday, October 1 to Saturday, November 9, 2019