Next week is @UNESCO International Arts Education Week. We need to both share and celebrate what we do in the Arts. Post up your images and tag in @InSEA_Blog pls. #socialinclusion and load Twitter with creativity and #Arts. Thanks.
Dr. Ahmed Z. Abubaker, Retired Chief Curator, @AddisUniversity, Institute of Ethiopian Studies shares insight into the repatriation of Axum Obelisk in #Ethopia as case study - from logistics like transportation, to international communications & its reinstallation. #AAMCOnline
Thank you to Monica Montgomery, Independent Curator - Cultural Consultant - Museum Thought Leader, for your address and words of advice to our conference attendees. #AAMCOnline
"Early Islamic art sits alongside presentations of the Dome of the Rock and street art commemorating George Floyd." Christiane Gruber, Professor and Chair, History of Art, @UMich on #Khamseen, an online resource dedicated to Islamic art https://t.co/Sn388ox4I0 #AAMCOnline
"We are here because of the people that came before us. In the art world, that's not always present, so we need to bring our values into this space that is only sometimes focused on the next generation or what's new." Panel: Is this Appreciation or Assimilation? #AAMCOnline
Curator Rujeko Hockley has always woven art history into the fabric of her life’s pursuits.
Read more about her path to curating, the latest exhibition she organized, and the advice she would give her younger self: https://t.co/FcM89KmnAh
Up Next! Panel: Is this Appreciation or Assimilation? This session is a thoughtful discussion on the current institutional question of whether or not to fold Indigenous North American Artists into American collections. #AAMCOnline
One piece of homework for me from this session.....
https://t.co/hAKiXnCsa0 article YesomiUmolu
https://t.co/pji0FwjolN @Art_Curators#aamconline@museum_detox @BlackBritMuseum #artsnet
What landscape did I grow up in? How did the built environment shape my visuality? and how are statues or public art in dialogue with each other? more food for thought from the conversation @Art_Curators@MellonFdn@IRAASColumbiaU#AAMCOnline
Today's #AAMCOnline program include: Algerian National Museal Collections Panel, Keynote Address by Elizabeth Alexander and Dr. Mabel O. Wilson, Changing the Culture of Silence Panel and the Workshop: On Becoming and Being a Cross-Racial Ally. #HappyFriday#curators
"Whether I am giving trainings or talks or doing consulting projects, I have to show up as the person that I wish was there for me as an employee." @grownupnavajo @JacRoessel #AAMCOnline#mentorship#BIPOC
So next steps and questions.... What is my Curatorial practice based upon, which values, life stories and influence's and is this a question that current museum curators ask themselves or reflect upon ??? The journey continues
#AAMC2021@PorchiaMuseM@museumhue@MuseumsAssoc