The Ohio History Connection, COSI, and the Columbus Museum of Art are sponsoring a discussion of the AAM LGBTQ Welcoming Guidelines: Overview, Issues, and Actions.
Ohio History Connection
Thursday, November 9
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Ohio History Center – Cardinal Classroom
For more information or to sign up, go to: http://www.aam-us.org/events/face-to-face-programs/aam-lgbtq-welcoming-guidelines-overview-issues-and-actions/
All events are free and open to the public
Register here.
In celebration of the exhibition of Start at Home: Art from the Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center Collection, this symposium brings together artists, museum professionals, and scholars of Black art. The two-day event includes artist talks by Alison Saar and Fahamu Pecou; a keynote lecture on museums in the era of Black Power by Dr. Susan Cahan (Temple University); and a talk about “Black Art Futures” by Dr. LeRonn Brooks (Lehman College). Symposium panels will address the history of Black Art in Ohio and beyond, past and current practices of curating and exhibiting Black art, and the practice of Black art as resistance.
Thursday, October 19
All events at the Hale Black Cultural Center, unless otherwise noted
Nicole Fleetwood graduate student workshop
in University Hall Room 386
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Making Black Art Now
Opening keynote with artist Alison Saar
Introduction by Lawrence Williamson, Jr. Director of the Hale Black Cultural Center
at Urban Arts Space
5 PM-6:30 PM
Friday, October 20
All events at the Hale Black Cultural Center, unless otherwise noted
Continental Breakfast & Chair’s Welcome
8:30 AM-9 AM
Curating and Exhibiting Black Art: Past and Present
with Lawrence Williamson, Jr., Director of Hale Black Cultural Center and curator of the Hale Black Cultural Center art collection, Deidre Hamlar (independent curator), and Lucy Mensah from Detroit Institute of Arts
9 AM-10:30 AM
Black Art in Ohio in the 1960s and 70s
Panel led by Dr. Horace Newsum (H. Ike Okafor-Newsum), Emeritus Professor, The Ohio State University
Panelists: Queen Brooks, April Sunami, Bettye Stull, Willis “Bing” Davis, Shirley Bowen
10:30 AM-12 PM
Lunch + talk by Dr. Susan Cahan (Temple University) on “The Museum in the Age of Black Power” (talk starts at 12:30 PM)
12 PM-1:30 PM
Art as Resistance
with Melissa Crum, independent Scholar & entrepreneur; Simone Drake, The Ohio State University; Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Artist Talk: Fahamu Pecou, visual/performing artist and scholar
3 PM-4 PM
Closing Keynote: LeRonn Brooks (Lehman College) on Black Art Futures
at King Arts Complex
5:30 PM
This symposium is presented by the Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Ohio State University; The Arts Initiative; Urban Arts Space; the Department of African American and African Studies; the Department of History of Art; the Arts and Humanities Discovery Themes; and King Arts Complex.
“Museums are essentially social spaces, where people of all sorts can congregate. They are not neutral spaces, nor can they absolve themselves from complicity in colonialism or embedding privilege. They can however act as a starting point and stand for values which are non-negotiable such as religious tolerance, respect for the rule of law, the rights of minorities.”
If not here, where? – the museum as host in a polarised world
“Museums are ideal spaces for young children to learn. They allow children to explore their interests through authentic objects, hands-on exhibits, and activities. Museums also provide early learners interactive and multisensory opportunities –honoring the concrete, active way children learn.”
http://labs.aam-us.org/blog/why-museums-should-care-about-young-children/
https://nextshark.com/british-museum-complains-asian-names-can-confusing-twitter-absolutely-exploded/
“In May I spoke at the Association of Children’s Museums conference about working with a museum to revise their education programs to align with curriculum standards, and how successful that change was for the museum. And a recent project for my consulting business included watching videos of a museum’s education programs and creating a chart of standards alignment for the museum’s website. But this work has led me to think more about how content standards influence museum school programs, and to wonder if we should be thinking differently.” ~Claudia Ocello
What if our school programs didn’t align with curriculum standards?
“Today museums focus as much on learning and public engagement as exhibition making and collecting. To what extent should museums be useful or agents of social change?”
https://wexarts.org/series/directors-dialogue-art-and-social-change?utm_source=oncampus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PP_artandchange
“Mothering while brown means all the times I’ve been told, not asked, to leave white spaces while with my child—university classrooms, academic conferences, exhibits, museums, cafes, restaurants. So you mother while brown anyway. You don’t have the luxury otherwise. You mother while brown in white spaces and white buildings and white walls and white statues and all you can see is the whiteness of their white teeth telling you to please kindly just shut your kid the hell up, go away, and leave it all for them again. Mothering while brown in white spaces means that my son Alonsito is a liability, a distraction, a nuisance, an irritant, an aberration of a little brown boy with brown eyes that they refuse to look into because they will only see the emptiness of their nice, polite, white policies reflected back to them, their rules and regulations printed on official white sheets of paper.”
~Cecilia Caballero