Professor. Curator. Public Scholar.
Creativity vs. COVID: Public Accountability for Global Health Equity
SECAC 2022 conference
Public Art Dialogue sponsored session, Public Accountability through Public Art
October 27, 2022
I discussed the artistic activism of Free the Vaccine for Covid-19, the focus of a 2020-21 exhibit I co-curated.
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.
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.
I’m facilitating an event at IUPUI about the complex landscape of housing inequity and neighborhood change in Indianapolis. Originally scheduled for April, the event is now happening in June. Details here.
Understanding Housing Inequity
June 22, 2022. 5:30-8:30pm
IUPUI + zoom
[April 13 update: This event has been postponed – it will be rescheduled soon.]
I’m facilitating an event at IUPUI about the complex landscape of housing inequity and neighborhood change in Indianapolis. Details here.
Understanding Housing Inequity
April 13, 2022. 5:30-8:30pm
IUPUI + zoom
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.
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: 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?
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.
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.