Category: Exhibitions

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Student work at Newfields!

Three large rectangular panels on a museum wall each show a title, text, and graphic.
Lightboxes at THE LUME display interpretive text by Min Durham, Daylen Byrd, and Jaqueline Gaeta.

This spring, I taught a stellar trio of undergraduate art history students in an independent study on “writing for exhibits.” In partnership with Newfields and Herron’s Basile Center for Art, Design, and Public Life, they wrote interpretive text for three new immersive installations that other Herron students created for THE LUME. On view until February 2026.

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Indy Toxic Heritage exhibit opens June 21

After more than a year of planning, community conversations, and collaborative work, Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power is opening!

Broad Ripple Park Family Center
1426 Broad Ripple Ave., Indianapolis
June 21-July 13, 2024

We’ll celebrate the show with an opening reception Friday, June 21, 5-7pm.

The exhibit will travel to additional Indy Parks locations in the coming months.

Learn more.

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2023 Bantz Community Fellowship

My colleague Liz Kryder-Reid and I have been awarded the 2023 Bantz Community Fellowship from IUPUI for a project called “Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power.” This year, we’ll be partnering with the Kheprw Institute and Indy Parks and Recreation to create an exhibit and a series of public conversations that examine environmental harm and advocacy for justice as part of Indianapolis’s citywide heritage.

This project builds on years of previous work including our participation in the international Climates of Inequality project.

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The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis: Exhibit and Events

Stylized text states: Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis.

February 8-April 22, 2023
Herron Galleries and sites around Indianapolis

This project reflects months of collaboration between the IUPUI Museum Studies Program and the Museum of Broken Relationships (Zagreb, Croatia). Together with students and community partners, we’ve created a multi-site exhibition and array of public programs that consider love, loss, and growth across relationships of all kinds.

Visit the exhibit website for more details, including a full schedule of events and the locations of all 8 installations.

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A Constellation of Partners: The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis

Engaged Art History Event Series
December 5, 2022
12-1:30pm Eastern

This informal talk will address the process of developing and leading a project-based course involving multiple types of partners. In fall 2022 the Museum Studies Program at Indiana University IUPUI launched a collaboration with the Museum of Broken Relationships to develop The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis, a crowd-sourced exhibit about love, loss, and growth that will open at the Herron Galleries at IUPUI and sites around Indianapolis in February 2023. Blurring the ostensible boundaries between research, teaching, and service, the project involves multiple courses, each of which includes a constellation of partners within and beyond the university. Focusing on my fall 2022 Curatorial Practices course, one part of the larger project, I will identify the types of partners, explain how the work and relationships developed, show how they connect with student learning activities, and reflect on the products and processes of the layered collaborations. There will be ample time for discussion.

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The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis

The IUPUI Museum Studies Program is partnering with the Museum of Broken Relationships (based in Zagreb, Croatia) to develop a crowd-sourced exhibit about love, loss, and growth that will open at Herron Galleries and sites around Indianapolis in February 2023! My colleague Lois H. Silverman and I are leading the Indianapolis-based team of students and community partners.

Through October 20, we’re inviting people across Indianapolis to donate objects and stories about broken relationships of all kinds.

Read more about the project, including how we’re integrating it into our courses, on the Museum Studies blog.