Professor. Curator. Public Scholar.
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.
“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.”
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.
Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice
January 9 – February 16, 2020
Central Library, 40 E St. Clair St., Indianapolis
After years of planning, research, and collaboration with local and international partners, it’s exciting to have Climates of Inequality on view in Indianapolis! The collaboratively curated exhibit organized by the Humanities Action Lab features contributions from more than 20 communities that are working to address environmental injustices.
Over the course of 3 semesters IUPUI Museum Studies students partnered with the Kheprw Institute to study and share stories about environmental justice and Indianapolis’s waterways. Their work is part of the traveling exhibition and also included on the project’s digital platform.
Fall Creek: A Look at Art and the Environment
December 9, 2019-January 25, 2020
Central Library, 40 E St. Clair St., Indianapolis
This exhibition of work by photographer Tim Faris (MFA, Herron School of Art + Design, 2019) was developed by Museum Studies students in my spring 2019 Exhibition Planning and Design course and carried out by students in Interpreting Environmental Justice (taught by Liz Kryder-Reid). It kicks off a series of programs in Indianapolis related to Climates of Inequality.