Tag: IUPUI Museum Studies

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Jan. 20 Workshop: Cultural Compost

We’re facilitating another Cultural Compost workshop, this time on Indianapolis’s southside, as part of the upcoming Eco-Justice and Wellness Expo.

From the water that we drink to the air that we breathe, we all have experience with the legacies of environmental damage. In this hands-on workshop participants will develop personal stories related to places of environmental harm and then use those stories to nourish the ongoing work of environmental justice.

Cultural Compost
Environmental justice storytelling workshop
January 20, 2024. 3:15-4:15pm.

Learn more and register.

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2023 National Humanities Conference

I’m speaking in two sessions at the 2023 National Humanities Conference:

Access and Inclusion Through University-Community Public Humanities Collaborations
Friday, October 27
Laura Holzman, Kris Johnson, Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Lois Silverman

This roundtable explores how public humanities can support inclusive practices and diverse partnerships, particularly through university-community collaborations, using examples from the IUPUI Museum Studies Program. The conversation includes Museum Studies faculty, graduate students, and community partners sharing the experiences and lessons from public humanities projects, including exhibits, public programs, and professional development initiatives, many of which received funding from Indiana Humanities. Participants will share their successes, as well as the challenges and lessons learned from failure, in mobilizing public humanities to include underrepresented audiences, address social justice issues, work across diverse organizations and stakeholders, and democratize knowledge.

Curating for a Different Future: Public Humanities and Collaborative Practice
Saturday, October 28
Erin Benay, Laura Holzman and Kavita Mahoney, Keri Watson

How can the humanities be harnessed in collaborative, community-based curatorial interventions that shape future paths for organizations, communities, and individuals? Panelists in this session will discuss the ethical and logistical implications of curatorial strategies and interventions that increasingly seek to diversify the types of voices commonly heard in museum, academic, and community spaces alike. This panel explores how community partnerships, transdisciplinary practices, and applied learning are employed as curatorial interventions to build more just and equitable encounters in and beyond conventional exhibition contexts.

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Nov. 11 Workshop: Cultural Compost

Cultural Compost: Nourishing Places in the Footprints of Toxic History
November 11, 2023. 10am-noon.

From the water that we drink to the air that we breathe, we all have experience with the legacies of environmental damage. In this hands-on workshop participants will develop personal stories related to places of environmental harm and then use those stories to nourish the ongoing work of environmental justice.

A partnership between Indy Parks and Recreation and the IU School of Liberal Arts Museum Studies Program. Part of the 2023 Spirit & Place Festival.

Learn more and register!

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The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis: Exhibit and Events

Stylized text states: Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis.

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.

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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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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!