Open Forum

Recognizing the need to transform museums and cultural work, a new critical museum studies journal, Fwd: Museums, invites submissions of artwork, essays, reviews, creative writing, utopian dreams, designs, interviews, poetry, love- and break-up letters, and experimental forms to analyze, critique, and make space for new thinking about museums and exhibitions. 

The theme for our next issue is "Small." 

Possible topics include: Big and small as metrics of success and failure; Small positions in large institutions and large positions in small institutions; Times when you have been made to feel small; Being small; The impact of small ideas in a culture preoccupied with bigness; Scale in art; When aggressions are micro, are they small?; Downsizing; And more. 

Submissions beyond the theme are also welcomed.

Submission Guidelines

- Deadline: January 5, 2016 11:59pm (CT)

- Writing: manuscripts of up to 2,500 words as doc, docx, or rtf files

- Visuals: If your submission is selected we will request high-resolution B/W/color images of original artwork inTIFF or CMEK format for publication. Images must be 300 PPI at print size.

Please email our Publication Coordinator at muse.pub.uic@gmail.com with inquiries and visit our websitehttp://fwdmuseumsjournal.wordpress.com for submission updates.