See the Indy Toxic Heritage exhibit:
August 6–17, 2024
Pride Park Family Center
1229 S. Vandeman Street
August 21–22, 2024
Indiana Water Summit (registration required)
September 17–28, 2024
Riverside Park Family Center
2420 E. Riverside Drive
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.
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.
The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis: Exhibit and Events
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.
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.
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.
Special Recognition for Monumental Changes at GPAC
Monumental Changes: History and Power in Public Art won the runner-up Award of Awesomeness from the Spirit & Place Festival!
Watch a recording of the panel discussion featuring Paul Mullins, Jordan Ryan, and Danicia Monet.
Monumental Changes at Garfield Park Arts Center
Students in my fall 2021 course on Public Art and Power are partnering with the Garfield Park Arts Center to develop an exhibit that’s part of this year’s Spirit & Place Festival. We’re inviting audiences to reflect on the park’s history as former site of a Confederate monument and collectively envision a future for public art in the park.
Monumental Changes: History and Power in Public Art
Garfield Park Arts Center
November 5-17, 2021
November 5 events:
6pm: opening reception
7pm: panel discussion with Jordan Ryan, Paul Mullins, and Danicia Monet.
Registration info and more details here.
Creativity vs. COVID at IUPUI
Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic For Good
Herron Galleries, Indiana University IUPUI
March 24 – May 9, 2021
In conjunction with the virtual exhibit at Herron, I’m participating in two public programs:
Creativity vs. COVID: Artistic Activism for Global Health Equity
April 26, 2021
Join members of the Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 collective for a panel discussion about their innovative advocacy to make COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines available and affordable globally.
Artistic Activism Workshop
April 27, 2021
Led by Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 members Joseph Amodei and Laura Holzman, this workshop will introduce the collective’s methods and offer concrete techniques to help you expand your creative toolkit and strengthen your advocacy skills.
SHIFT: What can museums change?
Shift: What can museums change?
March 24 – April 24, 2021
Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art + Design, IUPUI
Created by students in my IUPUI Museum Studies spring 2021 Exhibit Planning and Design course, this exhibit explores some large and small ways museums are working to right historical wrongs. Students will reflect on their work throughout the run of the show and they’ll propose revisions based on what they learn.