Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art’s Post

☎️ Latinx and Hispanic identifying visual artists in the Bloomington, IN area: submit your art to Repost: Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition by August 23, 2024! How does your online presence amplify, obscure, distort, or reflect your real life self? What hardware and software do you open, use, and manipulate every day? Does digital technology influence your emotions, whether it expedites a process or slows it down? Have you ever met the people you interact with online in real-life? How does online culture trickle into your present interactions? I intend to pose the above questions to local Latinx and Hispanic identifying artists and ask them to represent their thoughts in a variety of media, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, jewelry, or film to culminate in a pop-up exhibition, Repost, to open at the 505 Theater at the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts. Their works should incorporate some aspect of online digital culture, hardware, or software. Please note that 2D and 3D pieces are preferred. Repost is curated by Claudia González Díaz and Daniela Panigada Cook. 📲 Please reach out to me with any questions.

Thank you, Monica Roman Gagnier, for writing this engaging, beautifully written exhibition review. Judy Pfaff's work is about resilience among others, so it's gratifying to hear from a writer who feels the emotional power of the work. Monica wrote, ""There are no titles for the pieces displayed at SAM, but visitors can take away a brochure written by Yoon that describes "Picking Up the Pieces." The pamphlet is more than a curator's description of an artist's exhibition. It's a love letter." She is absolutely right. This is my love letter to Judy as an artist, as a person, and as a friend. Monica quotes me writing that Judy's work "is a topography of human emotions, the nexus of countless storylines linking the events of our time to our personal and collective experiences." If you read the rest of Monica's piece, you'll discover some of those incredibly personal storylines that I've been so honored to learn about in this process.

Are you familiar with active listening? While interviewing a museum director about a multi-million dollar expansion, she made a comment at the end of our conversation. That small moment led to more discovery, an idea for this article, and a soon-to-be-revealed museum exhibit this spring. When we listen to understand, rather than listen to respond a world of opportunity opens. #4havensake #leadershipcommunications #leadershipbyexample https://lnkd.in/gHfd9sAu

And that���s number 25! Over the past year, we have been illustrating 25 essential skills for curators, giving a glimpse of the day-to-day life of art museum curators. This list of 25 skills is neither complete, nor definitive. Research commissioned by CODART in 2023 has shown that the job of curator has changed a lot over the past decennia. This will undoubtedly continue in the years to come: some of the 25 skills presented in this series may become irrelevant or obsolete, while new skills we can’t even think of now will emerge. In the 25th and final video in the series, Friso Lammertse and Tamar van Riessen (respectively Curator and Junior Curator of 17th-Century Dutch Painting, Rijksmuseum) discuss what skills the curator of the future will need. What skills do you think will become essential in the future? Let us know in the comments! See codart.nl/25 for the entire video series.

See it. Say it. Unsorted. An exhibition presenting work from across MA Art and Science, MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies, MA Fine Art and MA Fine Art Digital. It showcases the diverse range of practices and perspectives of over 100 Year 1 students, midway through their MA studies. The title is a reference to the London transport poster campaign (See it. Say it. Sorted.) that encourages vigilance and reporting on others in the name of safety. For this exhibition, however, the paternalistic address of the original campaign is challenged and inverted. Come and see what we’ve made, it says, tell us what you think but don’t expect us to provide you with a series of neat conclusions. The exhibition is not a full stop, it is not trying to resolve things or impose a unified perspective. Instead, it proposes a process of disorder, a cacophony of voices where difference is valued, and intellectual risk is encouraged. The exhibition opens this Friday March 8, join us at Granary Square this weekend. https://lnkd.in/ddHiZhmR.

Conceptual art at its best!

Planning a museum trip with the kids this weekend and feeling now overwhelmed? 😱 No worries! The Rocket House is here with fun-filled tips to turn museum visits into an exciting adventure! 🚀 Start Small: Plan your visit, pick 1 or 2 exhibits. What interests them? Maybe something they’ve mentioned from school or TV? Quality over Quantity 🚀 Be Curious Together: Ask open-ended questions like, “What do you think this painting is about?” or “How do you think that ancient item worked?” 🚀 Sketch It Out: Bring along a sketchbook. Encourage your child to draw their favourite exhibit. It’s a fun way to remember the day! 🚀 Child’s Play: Let them lead the way! You could turn the museum into a giant game of ‘I Spy’ or create your own stories about paintings or artefacts #therockethouse #weekendfun

What new stories can be told when everything remains the same in museum culture? The changing of an exhibition doesn’t signal the changing of attitudes in our art institutions. Many times, old ways of doing things impede the progress the visitors, donors, and many times board members push for. A place like the Smithsonian has a strict set of guidelines for presentation to the public so we expect a certain feeling of academia, history, and research when we enter those spaces. But public and even private museums must do better with their presentation of people, values, and opportunity to enact a true culture shift. https://lnkd.in/gKJTxPMd

About exhibiting art, something for consideration, my latest blog post.

Wrote this blog post last July about how museums can be less racist. I begin by discussing a recent dissatisfying experience at The Art Institute in Chicago and then dive into my own thoughts and research about strategic plans surrounding anti-racism. I wrap it up by highlighting some museums that are doing it right like The Tucson Museum Of Art. Let me know what you think, and visit my website for more blog posts, paintings & museum exhibition design.