Call for Papers closes on June 3!
Exhibition, the journal of exhibition theory and practice published by American Alliance of Museums , is currently seeking proposals for its Spring 2026 issue: Present Tense.
Present Tense seeks to illuminate how exhibition practitioners approach still-evolving topics and content, asking: How do we sit with uncertainty and not knowing, while striving for nuance, accuracy, and possibility?
Proposals for this issue might address any of the following topics, or many others not listed here:
- How to present multiple perspectives on evolving current events
- Updating exhibitions on historical topics as new discoveries and scholarship change our understandings of them
- The role of design in opening pathways to multiple storylines or perspectives and/or creating display systems that can be easily updated to allow exhibitions to stay in the present tense
- Rapid-response exhibitions on contemporary social movements that are grappling with present realities
- How to ensure accurate, fact-based, and nuanced interpretive strategies that also acknowledge that there is no clear consensus
- How to build trust with communities by acknowledging our own uncertainty and/or wrong answers that we may have embraced in the past
- Toolkits for exhibition developers looking to engage with current events in new ways
To read the complete call and valuable tips on submitting a winning proposal, visit: https://www.aam-us.org/programs/exhibition-journal/call-for-papers/
DM me with any questions and please share with colleagues who may be interested.
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Jeanne Goswami
Consultant
Salem MA
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