Download or read book Museums and Civic Dialogue written by Pam Korza and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Studies from Animating Democracy Museums and Civic Dialogue features three exhibition projects that demonstrate how museums can function as effective forums for civic dialogue: The Without Sanctuary Project (The Andy Warhol Museum); Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics (The Henry Art Gallery); and Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art (The Jewish Museum). Case studies examine approaches to curatorial practice, interpretation, and education prompted by civic intent; institutional challenges and changes in practice that occurred in doing this work; and the critical importance of partnerships.
Download or read book City Museums as Centres of Civic Dialogue written by Renée Kistemaker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 29 articles, this book gives an impression of the way in which international city museums are trying in both theory and practice to be open to the citizens of their cities.
Download or read book A Museums Community Toolkit written by American Alliance of Museums and published by American Alliance of Museums Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through helpful hints, logistical tips, and documents, A Museums and Community Toolkit helps museums plan successful museum-community dialogues.
Download or read book Mastering Civic Engagement written by and published by American Alliance of Museums Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This call to action from AAM's Museums and Community Initiative challenges museums to pursue their potential as active, visible players in community life. Essays and reflections offer food for thought on the complex process of changing the terms of engagement between communities and museums.
Download or read book Andr s Sz nt The Future of the Museum written by András Szánto and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As museums worldwide shuttered in 2020 because of the coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist András Szántó conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum leaders. In a moment when economic, political, and cultural shifts are signaling the start of a new era, the directors speak candidly about the historical limitations and untapped potential of art museums. Each of the twenty-eight conversations in this book explores a particular topic of relevance to art institutions today and tomorrow. What emerges from the series of in-depth conversations is a composite portrait of a generation of museum leaders working to make institutions more open, democratic, inclusive, experimental and experiential, technologically savvy, culturally polyphonic, attuned to the needs of their visitors and communities, and concerned with addressing the defining issues of the societies around them. The dialogues offer glimpses of how museums around the globe are undergoing an accelerated phase of reappraisal and reinvention. Conversation Partners: Marion Ackermann, Cecilia Alemani, Anton Belov, Meriem Berrada, Daniel Birnbaum, Thomas P. Campbell, Tania Coen-Uzzielli, Rhana Devenport, María Mercedes González, Max Hollein, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Mami Kataoka, Brian Kennedy, Koyo Kouoh, Sonia Lawson, Adam Levine, Victoria Noorthoorn, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anne Pasternak, Adriano Pedrosa, Suhanya Raffel, Axel Rüger, Katrina Sedgwick, Franklin Sirmans, Eugene Tan, Philip Tinari, Marc-Olivier Wahler, Marie-Cécile Zinsou
Download or read book History as Catalyst for Civic Dialogue written by Pam Korza and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines three projects that mined hidden, forgotten, or suppressed histories of slavery and lynching in the United States in order to stimulate meaningful dialogue about persistent issues of race and marginalization.
Download or read book Civic Dialogue Arts Culture written by Pam Korza and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture explores the power of the arts and humanities to foster civic engagement and demonstrates how arts and humanities organizations can be vital civic and cultural institutions.
Download or read book The Value of Museums written by John H. Falk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the public use of museums, The Value of Museums: Enhancing Societal Well-Being provides a timely and compelling way for museum professionals to better understand and explain the benefits created by museum experiences. The key insight this book advances is that museum experiences successfully support a major driver of human behavior – the desire for enhanced well-being. Knowingly or not, the business of museums has always been to support and enhance the public’s personal, intellectual, social and physical well-being. Over the years, museums have excelled at this task, as evidenced by the almost indelible memories museum experiences engender. People report that museum experiences make them feel better about themselves, more informed, happier, healthier and more enriched; all outcomes directly related to enhanced well-being. Historically, benefits such as enhanced well-being were seen as vague and intangible, but Falk shows that enhanced well-being, when properly conceptualized, can not only be defined and measured, but also can be monetized. However, as many in the museum world are painfully aware, what worked yesterday for museums may not work in the future as recessions and pandemics rapidly alter the landscape. Although insights about past experiences are interesting, what is needed now is a roadmap for the future. Fortunately for museums, the public’s need for enhanced well-being will not be disappearing any time soon; enhanced well-being is now, and will always be, a fundamental and on-going human need. What has and will change, though, is how people choose to satisfy their well-being-related needs. The Value of Museums provides tangible suggestions for how museum professionals can build on their legacy of success at supporting the public’s well-being, adapting to changing times, and remaining relevant and sustainable in the future.
Download or read book Animating Democracy written by Barbara Schaffer Bacon and published by Americans for the Arts Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report was commissioned by the Ford Foundation resulting from a study conducted by Americans for the Arts and its Institute for Community Development and the Arts. A condensed version is available in book form through Americans for the Arts and on its website, www.artusa.org.
Download or read book Museum Rhetoric written by M. Elizabeth Weiser and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural heritage and national identity. Based on fieldwork conducted in over sixty museums in twenty-two countries across six continents, Museum Rhetoric explores how heritage museum exhibits persuade visitors to unite their own sense of identity with that of the broader civic society and how the latter changes in response. Elizabeth Weiser examines what compels communities, organizations, and nations to create museum spaces, and how museums operate as sites of both civic engagement and rhetorical persuasion. Moving beyond rhetorical explorations of museums as “memory sites,” she shows how they intentionally straddle the divides between style and content, intellect and affect, and unity and diversity, and why their portrayal of the past matters to civic life—and particularly studies of nationalism—in the present and future. Deeply researched and artfully argued, Museum Rhetoric sheds light on the public impact of cultural and aesthetic heritage and opens avenues of inquiry for scholars of museum studies and public history.
Download or read book Becoming Civic Art Museums written by Almudena Caso Burbano and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research project seeks to understand how the Departments of Education and Public Programs in three art museums across Spain and the U.S are changing to promote equitable dialogue, collaboration, and programming that is relevant to citizen and community organizations. The aims of this project are to identify the differences and commonalities of the emerging practices in each cultural institution, to engage in a cross-cultural dialogue about the strategic lines that the museums have developed in both countries, and to disseminate the outcomes of this research to art education and art administration communities globally. There are two main reasons for the development of this research. Firstly, I believe this research is timely for the current museum education field in US and in Spain as in both countries visitor-oriented trends in cultural institutions are gaining presence and relevancy across practitioners and academics. This is of major importance for the field of museum studies and also for art education. There are crucial conversations and debates taking place in US and Spain around issues of civic engagement and equity. These dialogues are mainly being sprouted by civic organizations and grassroots movements that are showing a deep understanding of the transient, multi-cultural, intersectional nature of our society today. I believe citizen movements are reaching a mature state, but is seems to me that some institutions, governmental and otherwise, are not rising to the occasion. In this context, if museums do not pay attention to the current conversations, they risk becoming irrelevant, not mattering to the people, become outdated in their representation of a society that was, but that no longer exists. Relevance is at stake. Secondly, my professional experience working in participatory arts and social practice in a project-based fashion has allowed me to have a vast and varied experience in program design and implementation as well as has taught me that there is just so much that can be achieved through temporary collaborations. For this reason, I am presently interested in the ways that collaborative work amongst cultural intuitions and civic organizations can be founded on non-hierarchical and long-lasting sustainable relationships as we as in the risks this entails. Moreover, I have been attentive to the current adoption of skills native to the fields of participatory arts and social practice by museums as abilities desired and needed in the positions responsible for the development of collaborative practices in the cultural institutions. This project has been guided by the following research questions: • What is, in the eyes of museum professionals, the emerging role of the art museum of the 21st century? • What strategies are three Departments of Education and Public Programs across Spain and the US developing to foster civic engagement? • What determines successful participation in each context and what conflicts have manifested? Moreover, in my data collection I have also paid special attention to the following categories: Strategies, Work Culture, and Nature of Collaborations. In Strategies I look at the methods, programs and strategies developed in order to promote and sustain partnership and collaboration. In Work Culture, I focus on the shifts that, influenced by the development of collaborative practices, are taking place in the mission, internal organization, and job descriptions within Departments of Learning and Public Programs. Lastly, in Nature of Collaborations I pay attention to the ways in which museum staff and community members experience collaboration and what they identify as successes and challenges. As a way to explore and analyze the experiences of professionals and collaborators at each of the three museums, I employed a case study methodology. For collecting data, a residency of three to seven days was accomplished at each of the three participating museums: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, U.S), and Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, U.S). At each museum, interviews with staff from the Departments of Education and Public Programs were recorded on video or audio. Data were also collected using photography and journal reflections. The result of this project is this website that represents the interviews, excerpts from video and audio interviews, a description of the research project, and conclusions. The reasons for choosing these museums are multiple. Firstly, I believe a portion of US and Spanish art museums are going through a similar moment in their history in which collaborating with civic organizations is opening the path for testing the role of these cultural institutions as social agents as well as for democracy experimentation. Secondly, these museums are very different in size, nature, and location. This diversity has promoted the gathering of a wide representation of museums which I believe has strengthen the final aim of Becoming Civic Museums which is to create international dialogue around the various visitor-oriented strategies that art museums are implementing in US and Spain. Lastly, this selection supports my intention of collecting ideas, experiences and opinions from practitioners and community members in this online platform with the hope it will work as a handbook of practices and also as inspiration for students, academics and practitioners in the field worldwide. Lastly, in my conclusions I determine that each of the participating museums is facing a similar challenge of creating ways to place the experience and participation of diverse audiences, community groups, and activists at the forefront of their agenda. These cultural institutions attempt to accomplish this aim through the creation of stable and equal relationships which collaterally question the structural functioning of the organization, its power as an institution, and its potentials to be a transformative social agent. Ideas such as educating the institution, relationship building, care, and new methods of assessment are common values and concepts that all participating museums are questioning and addressing.
Download or read book The Great Good Place written by Ray Oldenburg and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999-08-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Third places," or "great good places," are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present--and offers a vision for their revitalization. Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place--opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars, and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book.
Download or read book Culture Strike written by Laura Raicovich and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change. As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence. In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.
Download or read book Civilizing the Museum written by Elaine Heumann Gurian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over a thirty-five year career, the essays in Civilizing the Museum introduce students to the powerful, sometimes contested, and often unrealized notion that museums should welcome all because they house the collective memory of all. Drawing on her experience working in and with museums in the US and throughout the world, Author Elaine Heumann Gurian explores the possibilities for making museums more central and relevant to society. The twenty-two essays are organized around five main themes: museum definitions civic responsibility and social service architectural spaces exhibitions spirituality and rationality. And these themes address the elements that would make museums more inclusive such as: exhibition technique space configurations the personality of the director the role of social service power sharing types of museums the need for emotion humour and spirituality. Without abandoning the traditional museum processes, Gurian shows how museums can honour tradition whilst embracing the new. Enriched by her experience in groundbreaking museums, Gurian has provided a book that provokes thought, dialogue and action for students and professionals in the field to realize the inclusive potential of museums.
Download or read book Museums Social Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Radical Museum written by Museum Identity (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring issues such as democracy, human rights, slavery, sexual freedom, community relations, ethnic diversity and cultural identity, this thought-provoking book argues that museums are well-placed to make a significant and provocative contribution to current opinion and discussion"--Page xiii.
Download or read book Cultural Perspectives in Civic Dialogue written by Pam Korza and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares the efforts of cultural organizers who are skilled in working deeply within and across cultures to understand important cultural considerations in arts-based civic dialogue work.
