February 23, 2021
(virtual)
I’m participating in a panel discussion hosted by the Intermedia Graduate Programs at the University of Maine in conjunction with Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic for Good.
Coming Soon: Comics
My work is included in a new comics anthology, due out February 15!
COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology
Edited by Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson
Published by graphic mundi, an imprint of Penn State University Press
New Exhibit: Creativity vs. COVID
Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic for Good
Virtual exhibit.
For months I’ve been working with other members of the Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 collective (FTV) to create an exhibit that shares the group’s work with new audiences. Now it’s here! See how FTV is talking about access to Covid medicines, explore FTV’s creative actions, and sharpen your creative advocacy skills in the process. In the coming months, galleries, museums, and university groups will connect their local audiences with the show through in-person and online programs.
Read more about the show or visit the exhibit site.
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.
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.
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!
Op-Ed: The Arts Are Essential
“Arts play an essential role in challenging times,” Indianapolis Business Journal, April 24, 2020.
People are using images, stories, music, and more to understand (or escape from) the COVID-19 pandemic. My op-ed argues that it’s time for policy and practices that acknowledge art as the essential part of our lives that it is and give it the respect, funding, and local critical discourse it deserves.
A Look at the Art+Ethics Seminar
Dan Grossman, “IUPUI Art+Ethics Online Seminar Features Newfields Curator Kelli Morgan,” NUVO, April 19, 2020.
NUVO‘s Dan Grossman reports on the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute’s Art+Ethics seminar, which I co-organize with my IUPUI colleagues Jason Kelly and Pamela Napier.
New Essay on Collaborative Teaching
“Teaching with the Museum: Partnership as Pedagogy,” Art History Teaching Resources. March 27, 2020.
Based on a talk I gave at CAA2020, this essay reflects on how I work with colleagues at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields when I teach an art history seminar on “Museums, Architecture, and the Politics of Space.”
Conference Presentation on Teaching in and with Museums
College Art Association Annual Conference
February 15, 2020
As part of a session on teaching across museum and classroom contexts, I’m giving a talk entitled, “Building Research Skills Through the Study and Critique of Museum Architectural History.” It spotlights Museums, Architecture, and the Politics of Space, a course I developed for art history undergraduate students and museum studies MA students.