culture worker with a digital bent (and a panama hat ;-) Author of Creating the Visitor-centered Museum (with Mimi Michaelson)
San Francisco/Berkeley CA
Joined September 2008
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Pretty amazing to see this outing of established museum practices so clearly articulated by mainstream media! #decolonizethemuseum
Here's our piece from last night on museums, the market for stolen antiquities, and statues without feet...youtube.com/watch?v=eJPLiT1k…
Check out the new #RawMaterial #podcast series ‘Visions of Black Futurity' hosted by @sfmoma podcaster-in-residence Babette Thomas. In Episode 1: Finding Kinship in the Archive she uncovers #hiddenhistories of #BlackCuration in the #BayArea #ejmontgomery tinyurl.com/33tr7dk6
Great tribute to #MuseumEd leader @KrisWetterlund today on @cmog blog. Quotes: “challenging museums to question their assumptions,” “relentless & courageous,” “most powerful & direct.” That’s our Kris! Brava! #equity #respect #retirement 👏🏼🌹🌹🌹 blog.cmog.org/2021/02/02/kri…
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Loeffler ran ads darkening Warnock’s skin and Perdue ran ads enlarging Ossoff’s nose and I’m not done thinking about that
Amazing. I’m afraid to hear what my new voice sounds like!
So very excited to announce that Creating the Visitor-centered Museum is now available as an audiobook! You can listen to a sample here: audiobooks.co.uk/audiobook/c… Also accessible via Audible, Google Play etc. #museum #audiobook
@RoutledgeHist @psamis
This is incredible — and it wasn’t even penned by @Lin_Manuel! Apparently, either #AlexanderHamilton had #2020 foresight... or human nature doesn’t change.
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This is what democracy looks like‼️ They're counting mail-in ballots at Pennsylvania Convention Center.
#PhillyVotes #ElectionDay #Election2020 #Elections2020 #Elections #ElectionNight
Takeaways from a trip to beautiful @MuirWoodsNPS today. #museuminterpretation #museumed instagram.com/p/CGY1K3CB0yH/…
Amazing conv. today about #truthandreconciliation. #RabbiSharonBrous asks: "What does it mean to build a nation on a dishonest narrative?" @BryanStevenson notes "There are no Adolf Hitler statues in Germany" today, a potent contrast. #IKAR vimeo.com/462403921
A remarkably in-depth & poetically spoken #podcast examining #AnselmKiefer’s #theaterofmemory & how his 2 paintings #Margarethe & #Shulamith @SFMOMA function symbolically. Superb evocation of the complexity of #PaulCelan’s poem & #Germanhistory. Bravo 👏🏼podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
When I first saw this photo – maybe a year ago? – I flashed on these two as a ticket. I thought that scenario was over when @KamalaHarris threw @JoeBiden under her #berkeley school bus. I guess the lesson in #politics is #neversaynever! Good luck to them. #vote #DumpTrump2020
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Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s pick for vice president, is a daughter of Berkeley berkeleyside.com/2020/08/11/…
An excellent, really clearly written article introducing the trauma informed paradigm & applying it to our times, the places we work, & the communities we care about/for: Museums Must Become More Trauma Informed – Art Museum Teaching artmuseumteaching.com/2020/0…
What a great thread. I feel like I just got a reading list for the next 2 years! #worldliterature #womenwriters
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John Lewis presided over the House vote to restore the Voting Rights Act. Mitch McConnell has had that legislation sitting on his desk for 225 days.
It’s time for Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act.
Very penetrating analysis by Dr. Kelli Morgan of the #whitesupremacy endemic to #artmuseum culture. See also her more detailed piece written here:
burnaway.org/to-bear-witness… So much more to say about the liberating work of #decenteringwhiteness
Just seeing this. Curator Kelli Morgan resigned Thursday as associate curator of american art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art @NewfieldsToday. Many of us read and shared her recent @BurnawayGA article on white supremacy in US art museums.
Solidarity.
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When @MellonFdn changes, the #Establishment #ArtWorld changes. #antiracism over #whiteprivilege. #socialjustice #wakeupcall 👏🏼✊🏽
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10.5M #coronavirus cases around the world so far & >500K deaths. Of this 1/4 have been in the #USA. We are NOT 1/4 of the world’s population. Far from it. We have been unruly & irresponsible—disbelieving the threat was real. Responsibility starts at the top. It’s unconscionable.
