DON'T MISS OUR FIRST '25 WEBINAR!
Re-Thinking the Art Museum
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
2:00 p.m. ET
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Moderated by Marsha Semmel and Avi Decter, editors of Change is Required: Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Museum (2022).
Art museums, like other types of museums, address issues of equity, inclusion, representation, and shared authority. Confronting these challenges requires re-thinking art historical narratives, restructuring staff, and work culture, and negotiating new terms of collaboration with both communities and living artists. This panel will identify some of the critical issues at stake in changing organizational priorities and practice and suggest some of the ways change can be affected for the benefit of staff, audiences, and art history.
As Chief Curator of the Princeton Art Museum at Princeton University, since 2019, Juliana Ochs Dweck has been overseeing the reinstallation of the museum's collections and galleries in anticipation of opening a new museum in 2025. To do so, she has been building a culture of collaboration across diverse areas of curatorial expertise. She has curated exhibitions on African sculpture, Mexican retables, and political protest and has written on materiality, memory, and museum practice.
Since June 2023, Cindy Meyers-Foley has been the Director and CEO of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Foley is a leader in the arts sector, with experience in helping museums cultivate curiosity and drive social engagement. Formerly, she was the Executive Deputy Director of the Columbus Museum of Art, where she opened the Center for Creativity, an innovative space for visitor-centered museum experiences.
Brian Lee Whisenhunt became the Executive Director of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in April 2024, where his goal is to help the community see their experiences at Gilcrease as essential and integral to their lives. A leader in arts and museum education, Whisenhunt served as Executive Director of The Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York, where he broadened the collections and deepened relationships with the museum's community.
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