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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.

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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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Monumental Changes at Garfield Park Arts Center

An invitation to the Monumental Changes exhibit and opening events. It includes a photo of a portion of the Confederate monument that was removed from Garfield Park in 2020.

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.

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Creativity vs. COVID at IUPUI

Activists from Free the Vaccine activate public art to urge Columbia University to adopt open licensing for COVID-19 research

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.

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SHIFT: What can museums change?

View of entrance to the gallery where SHIFT: What can museums change? is installed

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.

View the virtual tour!