Museum metamorphosis : cultivating change through cultural citizenship / nico wheadon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

wheadon, nico, 1984- author.

Contributor:

American Alliance of Museums, sponsoring body.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums and community--United States.

Museums and community.

Museums--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.

Museums.

Museums and minorities--United States--Case studies.

Museums and minorities.

Museums--Management--Social aspects--Case studies.

Organizational change--United States--Case studies.

Organizational change.

Museums--Management--Social aspects.

Museums--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"This book uses curated roundtables, case studies and interviews with cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art who offer tools to dismantle institutional hierarchies and reshape museums into more vital and relevant forms"-- Provided by publisher.

"In this Museum Metamorphose: Cultivating Change Through Cultural Citizenship, over forty cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art share strategies for building sociocultural relevancy and responsiveness in museums. Representing diverse perspectives from across the entire arts and culture ecosystem, the book offers tools to reshape museums into collaborative platforms for collective impact and social change. Compiled during a moment of heightened social action, cultural transformation, and institutional critique, Museum Metamorphosis considers and responds to the following prompts: How will museums learn to embrace real-time change and adapt to meet the evolving needs of a rapidly shifting sociopolitical landscape? How can this metamorphosis open new pathways for engagement and encourage museums to meet more audiences where they are? Lastly, how might reconstituting the essential DNA of the museum recalibrate the power dynamics between communities and institutions, producing a sustainable model for engaged cultural citizenship?"--back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: A crisis of relevance

Part I: Dialogues on decentralization

Museum as nexus: How to cultivate community engagement through artist-powered platforms / Jordan Casteel, Shaun Leonardo, Miguel Luciano, and Lina Puerta

Museum as medium: How to liberate the museum from the designed hierarchies that entomb it / Deborah Burke, Mario Gooden, and Maitland Jones

Museum as citizen: How to engage the commons and build a public art pedagogy / Eric Guy Booker, Maren Hassinger, Kendal Henry, and Diya Vij

Museum as apprentice: How to learn from the cultural entrepreneurship of people-powered organizations / Jamaica Gilmer, Kemi Ilesanmi, and Shani Peters

Museum as bridge: How to build relevance, equity, and sustained engagement through adult public programs / Chayanne Marcano, David Rue, and Lauren Argentina Zelaya

Museum as advocate: How to decolonize museum practices and drive a systemic call to action / Ryan N. Dennis, Vashti DuBois, Lauren Kelley, and Jasmine Wahi

Museum as stakeholder: How to retool the funding landscape and invest in a social change ecosystem / Shawnda Chapman, Ruby Lerner, and Melissa Cowley Wolf

Part II: Case studies in cultural citizenship

The Harlem semester: How to adapt art history into contemporary curricular tools / Elia Alba, Tina M. Campt, Connie H. Choi, Leslie Hewitt, and Shanta Lawson

Find art here: How to mold static museum collections into educational access initiatives / Jordan Casteel, Connie H. Choi, Dawn Brooks DeCosta, Shanta Lawson, and Kyle Williams

Artist grants initiative: How to redirect resources to shape future relationships / Nisa Mackie, Alexandra Nicome, and Victoria Sung

Designing motherhood: How to midwife equity inside and outside of museums / Juliana Rowen Barton, Michelle Millar Fisher, Zoë Greggs, Gabriella Nelson, and Amber Winick

Part III: Perspectives on praxis

On defining and building equity as a field / Interview with Nicole Ivy

On nuancing diversity and diaspora within black museums / Interview with Ariana A. Curtis

On shaping resilient arts-and-culture organizations / Interview with DéLana R. A. Dameron

On moving from gatekeeping to distributed leadership / interview with Sandra Jackson-Dumont

Conclusion: Cultivating change.

Notes:

"The American Alliance of Museums has been bringing museums together since 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the entire museum community. ..."--Page [ii], page before title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: wheadon, nico, 1984- Museum metamorphosis

ISBN:

9781538130438

9781538130421

1538130424

1538130432

OCLC:

1269096424

Publisher Number:

99995722610