on view: #crosslines

This Memorial Day weekend #museumsrespondtoferguson took the show on the road for CrossLines, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s AH-MAY-ZING free and open to the public Intersectional Culture Lab. What was that, you wonder? Just watch.

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Tl;dr my weekend > yours 😉

 

newsflash!

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It’s been busy!

• This month Aleia Brown and I marked the one year anniversary of #museumsrespondtoferguson chats. Last night’s conversation is storified here.
• “We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest”, our reflection on #museumsrespondtoferguson one year on, is up today on The Incluseum blog.
• “The Problem Is In The Room”, my thoughts on the recent Openlab Workshop in Washington, D.C. is featured today on the Council on Library and Information Resources blog.
• Recently, Aleia Brown and I contributed an essay, “Museums & #BlackLivesMatter” to the online project CODE | WORDS: Theory and Technology in the Museum. It’s now available in print form! Royalties from book sales will be used to support Museum Computer Network conference scholarships.  Go get it!

on view: diversity in the arts

When the Ford Foundation announced significant changes in its grantmaking scope to focus entirely on addressing inequality, the news reverberated throughout the philanthropy world. In this conversation, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and Museum of Modern Art President Emerita Agnes Gund discuss inequality in museums.

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