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For Students, By Students: Cultivating Belonging through Curricular Partnerships // Ceglio // Douberley // Paul
In this episode of the CAA Conversations, Amanda Douberley, Clarissa J. Ceglio, and Alison Paul discuss the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, which brings student perspectives into its galleries and fosters belonging through innovative curricular partnerships. Three recent projects undertaken by classes in UConn’s School of Fine Arts produced student-centered interpretive materials for the Benton’s exhibitions. Each interactive project connected the museum with the campus community in a different way and cultivated a sense of belonging for both students enrolled in partner courses and student visitors to the Benton. Clarissa J. Ceglio, PhD, is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Associate Director of Research, for Greenhouse Studios, and Associate Director of Collaborative Research for UConn’s Humanities Institute. Her research focuses on the ways in which museums, past and present, engage diverse communities in issues relevant to individual and civic thriving. She looks, too, at the affective and rhetorical uses of material, visual, and digital artifacts in constructing national and social imaginaries. Through her teaching and research, Ceglio also collaborates with museums, libraries, and communities on interdisciplinary public-facing and grant-funded projects that engage diverse audiences in topics of contemporary concern. Amanda Douberley is Curator & Academic Liaison at the William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is responsible for connecting Benton’s collections and exhibitions with teaching in departments across the university. She has curated numerous exhibitions at the museum, often in collaboration with faculty and other campus partners. Douberley holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on 20th-century American sculpture and public art. Before coming to UConn in 2018, she taught in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Alison Paul is an Associate Professor of Art and Area Coordinator for the Illustration/Animation concentration in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Connecticut. Paul creates illustrations and stop-motion animations using cut paper collage. Her work is fundamentally about storytelling to a variety of audiences. Paul’s animations have been shown in film festivals internationally, and her children’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. She has curated exhibitions at the William Benton Museum of Art in Storrs and the Roots Reading Room in Providence, RI. Professor Paul has taught at UConn since 2011.
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The Museum Worker: The Challenges for Changemakers // Cozzolino // Locks // Morgan // Warren
In this episode of the CAA Conversations podcast subseries, “The Museum Worker,” guests Robert Cozzolino, Mia Locks, and Kelli Morgan discuss some of the significant challenges facing those working in museums, including the lack of institutional transparency in decision making, the culture of philanthropy, change management, and the failures of hierarchical structuring. The guests also offer some strategies for workers endeavoring to navigate fraught institutions. Robert Cozzolino is an independent curator, art historian, and critic. Mia Locks is the Executive Director and co-founder of Museums Moving Forward. Kelli Morgan is the founding Executive Director & CEO of Black Artists Archive. Erica Warren is a member of the CAA Museum Committee, an independent curator, and assistant instructional professor in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
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Acts of Care Revisited // Buller // Dosch // Marchevska // Dai // Donoghue
This episode of CAA Conversations reprises themes from "Acts of Care," a CAA 112th Annual Conference panel (2024) sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art. Moderated by Rachel Epp Buller, the discussion brings together four artists and art historians to consider how caring gestures and labors take shape across activist, academic, curatorial, and performance contexts.  Rachel Epp Buller is an artist, art historian, professor, and gallery director at Bethel College. Her books include Reconciling Art and Mothering and Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (edited with Charles Reeve). Her current research addresses listening as an artistic method. She is a two-time Fulbright Scholar and the CAA liaison to the Women's Caucus for Art.  Mya Dosch is Associate Professor of Art of the Americas at California State University, Sacramento. Their research focuses on art and urban space in Mexico City, from monuments to protest interventions, with a secondary research interest in art history pedagogy. Their work has appeared in Future Anterior, Sculpture Journal, and the edited volumes Teachable Monuments and Imágenes en colectivo. Elena Marchevska is Professor of Performance Studies at London South Bank University. Elena is a practitioner-researcher writing on issues of belonging, displacement, the border, and intergenerational trauma. Her artistic work explores borders and stories that emerge from living in transition. Gloria Dai is an independent curator, art critic, and graduate student in the Arts Management and Art History programs at George Mason University. Her professional work at GMU focuses on building the community through arts and culture activities and organizing educational programs. Recently, she curated the exhibit A Path to Healing & Transformation at the National Veterans Art Museum and co-curated RE(FORM)ER at Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University. Deirdre Donoghue is a visual and performance artist, practicing birth doula, and Research Associate at the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven University in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work centers on issues of relationality and the aesthetics of care from feminist, decolonial, and posthumanist perspectives. In her artistic practice, she works across disciplines to design encounters that facilitate the production of new knowledge systems.
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The Museum Worker: Museum Curators on Collecting, Exhibiting, and Access // Anne Rose Kitagawa // Kim Conaty // Rory Padeken // Magdalena Moskalewicz
In this episode, Kim Conaty, Anne Rose Kitagawa, and Rory Padeken talk to the host Magdalena Moskalewicz about everyday challenges of curatorial work inside collecting institutions such as university museums, art museums, and large, encyclopedic institutions. The curators share their own career paths and address the profession’s current aspirations and needs. The Museum Worker is a subseries of CAA Conversations about pathways to careers in museums, featuring candid conversations with professionals in the field. Museum workers share how they got where they are today, what they do, and the role of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion in day-to-day work as well as hopes for the future of the field. Anne Rose Kitagawa is Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art and Director of Academic Programs at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. Kim Conaty is the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Rory Padeken is the Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, at Denver Art Museum, Colorado. Magdalena Moskalewicz is a member of the CAA Museum Committee.
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Unlocking Interdisciplinary Possibilities Part II // Miranda Belarde-Lewis // Temi Odumosu // David Strand
In episode two of this two-part conversation, interdisciplinary scholars Miranda Belarde-Lewis and Temi Odumosu continue to delve into the possibilities that emerge when arts pedagogy is integrated within the STEM-oriented setting of an information school. Belarde-Lewis and Odumosu describe their practices of teaching, curation, and research while discussing insights, methods, and core skills they have developed along the way. Together, they highlight why it's important to move beyond the siloed nature of traditional disciplinary boundaries to seek truly polyvocal contexts and collaborations. The conversation is moderated by David Strand. Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) is an associate professor of North American Indigenous Knowledge at the iSchool and an independent curator. Indigenous knowledge systems are central to her work as she examines the role of social media and the arts in protecting, documenting and perpetuating Native information and knowledge. Her work highlights and celebrates Native artists, their processes, and the exquisite pieces they create. She has worked with tribal, city, state and federal museums to create Native-focused educational programming, publications and art exhibitions. Belarde-Lewis holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona, an M.A. in Museology and Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington. Temi Odumosu is assistant professor at the UW Information School and an independent curator and cultural heritage consultant. Drawing on her training in art history and international teaching experience in media, visual communication, and cultural studies, she takes a creative approach to mentoring information professionals. For over two decades she has been interrogating the visual politics and legacies of colonialism, activating collections as sites of memory and conscience, and collaborating with contemporary artists, designers, and curators to communicate unfinished histories more sensitively. Her current research and curatorial work centers wellbeing, considers the ethics of digitization in the age of AI and big data, and engages Black archival histories and possible futures. Odumosu is author of the award-winning book Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour (2017). She holds both a Ph.D. and MPhil in Art History from the University of Cambridge (King’s College). David Strand is an editor, curator, and emerging informational professional pursuing his M.A. in Library & Information Science at the University of Washington. He currently works as the graduate research assistant for the Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) at the University of Washington Information School. Strand has over a decade of experience working in the arts and museums. He previously worked at the Frye Art Museum as associate curator and prior to that as the manager of exhibitions and publications. Strand holds a B.A. in Visual Art and English-Creative Writing from Seattle University.
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