Art Museum Education

TED-style art history platform aims to promote arts education online

| Dana

“There was a national outcry in 2016 when the last exam board in England to offer A-level art history announced that it would drop the subject. Following a high-profile campaign by leading art world figures, including the Tate’s former director Nicholas Serota and the artists Anish Kapoor and Cornelia Parker, the exam board Pearson decided to plug the gap. But it was this rumble in art education that inspired Heni Talks, a new online platform for educational videos about art that launches today (25 April).”

 

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-online-platform-aims-to-promote-art-history-education

 

 

 

Why museum professionals need to talk about Black Panther

| Dana

“The seminal film Black Panther has become an international sensation in the week following its release. Notable for its impeccable dialogue, witty banter, and nearly all POC cast, Black Panther provides a platform to discuss a multitude of topics on a national scale. With issues such as police brutality, the ever-present effects of slavery in Western society, and black identity approached in the film, it is easy to gloss over one of the more exposition-driven scenes of the film that engages with the complicated relationship between museums and audiences affected by colonialism.”

https://jhuexhibitionist.com/2018/02/22/why-museum-professionals-need-to-talk-about-black-panther/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

 

Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams

| Dana

https://www.mcgill.ca/education/channels/news/new-book-dises-boyd-white-amelie-lemieux-mapping-holistic-learning-introductory-guide-aesthetigrams-275104

A new book from co-authored by DISE’s Boyd White and Amélie Lemieux, Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams, is now available from Peter Lang Publishing.

From Peter Lang’s website: “Mapping Holistic Learning: An Introductory Guide to Aesthetigrams introduces the concept of aesthetigrams. These are participant-produced visual maps of aesthetic engagement. The map-making strategy was originally developed by one of the authors, Boyd White, to assist him in understanding what his university-level students were experiencing as they interacted with artworks. Such interactions are, after all, private, individualistic, and fleeting. How can a teacher foster student/teacher dialogue that might lead to enhanced engagement, much less do research, without a concrete record of such engagement? Aesthetigrams provide that record.

 

Cleveland Museum of Art Focuses on Bringing Diversity to Museums

| Dana

“The Cleveland Museum of Art opens its doors every day to all visitors free of charge.  However, if very few of the people working there look like you, do you really feel welcome?

“It’s absolutely essential that when you walk into the door of an art museum, like the Cleveland Museum of Art, you see yourself reflected and you feel welcome.  When you don’t see that, you feel like an outsider, it’s very difficult to fully welcome you,” said CMA’s director of education and academic affairs Cyra Levenson.”

 

http://wcpn.ideastream.org/news/cleveland-museum-of-art-focuses-on-bringing-diversity-to-museums

 

CfS from Fwd: Museums

| Dana

Submission topics may include, but are not limited to:
· Museums as sites of social and political resistance
· Museums as sanctuary spaces
· The politics of representation
· Investigating the ways objects are labelled within collections
· Issues of repatriation of cultural heritage
· Community engagement/detachment
· Examples of resistance in digital spaces
· Alienated labor
· Migration
· Terminology
· Othering of marginalized groups
· Queering museum spaces
· Experiences of alienation as a visitor
Fwd: Museums invites academic articles, essays, exhibition/book reviews, artwork, creative writing, experimental forms, and interviews. All submissions should follow the guidelines and relate to the journal’s mission statement. We strongly encourage reviews and interviews and require all other submissions to connect to the third issue’s theme, “alien.” Scholars, artists, practitioners, and activists from all fields are welcome to submit.

– Deadline: January 5, 2018 by 11:59 pm (CT)

https://fwdmuseumsjournal.weebly.com/

Met Defends Suggestive Painting of Girl After Petition Calls for Its Removal

| Dana

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art will not remove a controversial painting by the French painter known as Balthus from public display. The painting, entitled “Thérèse Dreaming” (1938), depicts a young girl in a suggestive pose that leaves her underwear visible.

In reference to the museum’s decision, the Met’s chief communications officer, Ken Weine, said, “Moments such as this provide an opportunity for conversation, and visual art is one of the most significant means we have for reflecting on both the past and the present and encouraging the continuing evolution of existing culture through informed discussion and respect for creative expression.”

When A Student Says “I’m Not a Boy or a Girl.”

| Dana

“At some schools, teaching for and about transgender people is a battle, epitomized by nationwide debates over “bathroom bills.” But at others, educators aren’t battling against trans students or their needs. Instead, schools like Puget Sound are altering their policies to include transgender kids and, more broadly, to make gender a deliberate part of the curriculum. Students are leading the way, driving schools to adopt more inclusive teaching methods.”