Category: Publications

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Now out: The City is an Ecosystem

This new book, edited by Deborah Mutnick, Margaret Cuonzo, Carole Griffiths, Timothy Leslie, and Jay M. Shuttleworth includes a chapter I co-wrote with my IUPUI colleague Liz Kryder-Reid and our partners from the Kheprw Institute, Aghilah Nadaraj and Leah Humphrey.

In “An Environmental Justice Lens on Indianapolis’ Urban Ecosystem: Collaborative Community Curation,” we examine inequity and environmental justice along Indianapolis’s waterways. We also reflect on the work we did together to develop Indianapolis’s contribution to “Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice,” an international exhibition and collaborative initiative led by the Humanities Action Lab.

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New Resource for Engaged Art History

Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Art History, edited by Cindy Persinger and Azar Rejaie, is now out from Palgrave Macmillan!

I contributed two essays to this volume:

“Cultivating an Engaged Art History from Interdisciplinary Roots” offers a theoretical and practical framework for engaged art history based on lessons and scholarship from other fields such as anthropology and history.

“Structuring Academic Jobs for Engaged Art History” is a case study of the Public Scholar positions at IUPUI.

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Coming in 2021: Essay on teaching with and learning from an absent object

Modupe Labode, Liz Kryder-Reid, and I have an essay coming out next year in Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversies, edited by Sierra Rooney and Jennifer Wingate, and published by Bloomsbury.

“The Afterlife of E Pluribus Unum” looks at how communities in Indianapolis have and haven’t learned from the 2011 cancellation of Fred Wilson’s proposed public sculpture, E Pluribus Unum.

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Coming in 2021: Essays on Engaged Art History

I’ve written two essays that will appear in Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond: Alternative approaches to the theory and practice of art history, edited by Cindy Persinger and Azar Rejaie, and coming out from Palgrave Macmillan in early 2021.

“Structuring Academic Jobs for Engaged Art History” is a case study of the Public Scholar positions at IUPUI.

“Cultivating an Engaged Art History from Interdisciplinary Roots” offers a theoretical and practical framework for engaged art history based on scholarship developed outside of the discipline.

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Essay + Exhibit on Art, Ethics, and Access to COVID Medicine

“Free the Vaccine,” IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, September 11, 2020. Coauthored with Steve Lambert.

I’m working with a bunch of amazing collaborators to create an exhibition about artistic activism and health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic. Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic for Good shares the work of Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 – a collective that’s using artistic activism to make sure publicly-funded COVID tests, treatments, and (eventually) safe and effective vaccines are globally available, sustainably priced, and free to individual patients.

The exhibit goes live this fall!

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New Essays on Public Scholarship in Art History

The fall 2019 issue of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art includes a series of essays that I guest edited about public scholarship in art history. There are contributions from Sarah Beetham, Renée Ater, Theresa Leininger-Miller, Amy Werbel and La Tanya Autry and Mike Murawski.

As I state in the framing essay, “we need to be more consistently explicit about the value and role of public scholarship within our discipline.”

Read more: “Isn’t It Time for Art History to Go Public?”