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"A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy Of The Black Speculative Imagination" Exhibition Catalog, Julian Chambliss, Phillip Cunningham 2021 Michigan State University

"A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy Of The Black Speculative Imagination" Exhibition Catalog, Julian Chambliss, Phillip Cunningham

2020-2021 Afrofuturism Syllabus - Week 20 - "A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination" Exhibit

Exhibition catalog for "A Past Unremembered: The Transformative Legacy of the Black Speculative Imagination," co-curated by Dr. Julian Chambliss and Dr. Phillip Cunningham as part of the annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. The exhibit locates Afrofuturist thought in earlier eras of American history and focuses on how African American writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries used speculative/science fiction to imagine a better, freer, more equitable future for Black people.


The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano 2021 Colby College

The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano

Honors Theses

Art museums have recently been looking at their existing collections with heightened scrutiny, revisiting their decision to display colonial works uncritically in their gallery spaces, and reconsidering the idea that there is such a thing as a unified art historical canon. These conversations regarding reinterpretation are necessary for all museums that choose to display art with problematic histories, as this information is owed to visitors -- especially within the settler colonial context. The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine is one site where such collection and gallery “reinterpretation” has begun to be implemented and discussed. For example, in …


The Motivation To Volunteer: Understanding Volunteer Motivation At United States Industrial Heritage Museums And Organizations, Cooper Sheldon 2021 Michigan Technological University

The Motivation To Volunteer: Understanding Volunteer Motivation At United States Industrial Heritage Museums And Organizations, Cooper Sheldon

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Industrial Heritage Museums and Organizations (IHMOs) in the United States (US) and their volunteers are underrepresented in the literature on volunteerism. The motivation and demographics of volunteers in IHMOs within the US are examined in this paper. Research into this topic is exploratory and little is known, therefore any hypothesis was based on personal observations as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in a variety of US museums. An online survey was sent out to three hundred and eighty-five museums across the US, along with conducting twelve in-person or over-the-phone interviews with museum practitioners and volunteers. This research found that a majority …


Fallen Women, Rising Career: William Welles Bosworth’S Early Work For The New York Magdalen Benevolent Society, Andrea M. Ortuño 2021 Bronx Community College, CUNY

Fallen Women, Rising Career: William Welles Bosworth’S Early Work For The New York Magdalen Benevolent Society, Andrea M. Ortuño

Art Inquiries

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Identifying The Sacrifice On The Sistine Chapel Ceiling And Its Implications For The Genesis Sequence, Eston Adams 2021 University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Identifying The Sacrifice On The Sistine Chapel Ceiling And Its Implications For The Genesis Sequence, Eston Adams

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Commonwealth, Clare van Loenen 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

Commonwealth, Clare Van Loenen

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Jordan Nassar: The Field Is Infinite, Megan Bickel 2021 University of Louisville

Jordan Nassar: The Field Is Infinite, Megan Bickel

Art Inquiries

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The Spatial And Visual Dimension Of Protests: Art And Activism In The 2013 Ludwig Lépcsö (Ludwig Stairs) Budapest Protest Camp, Izabel Galliera 2021 Susquehanna University

The Spatial And Visual Dimension Of Protests: Art And Activism In The 2013 Ludwig Lépcsö (Ludwig Stairs) Budapest Protest Camp, Izabel Galliera

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Reclaiming Orvieto, Italy: Livio Orazio Valentini’S Pursuit Of A Spatial, Cultural, And Artistic Heritage, Jeremy Culler 2021 University of South Carolina Aiken

Reclaiming Orvieto, Italy: Livio Orazio Valentini’S Pursuit Of A Spatial, Cultural, And Artistic Heritage, Jeremy Culler

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Julie Mehretu, Jessica Stephenson 2021 Kennesaw State University

Julie Mehretu, Jessica Stephenson

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Frank Duveneck: American Master, D. Bryan Schaeffer 2021 Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University

Frank Duveneck: American Master, D. Bryan Schaeffer

Art Inquiries

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Lethaby, Brockhampton, And The Early Development In England Of Concrete As A Vernacular-Modern Building Material, Robert M. Craig 2021 Georgia Institute of Technology

Lethaby, Brockhampton, And The Early Development In England Of Concrete As A Vernacular-Modern Building Material, Robert M. Craig

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An Interview With Tony M. Bingham, Mysoon Rizk 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

An Interview With Tony M. Bingham, Mysoon Rizk

Art Inquiries

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Iconoclasm And The Museum, Catherine Chastain-Elliott 2021 University of North Georgia

Iconoclasm And The Museum, Catherine Chastain-Elliott

Art Inquiries

Book review of Iconoclasm and the Museum, by Stacy Boldrick.


Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists And The Politics Of Scale, Elizabeth S. Hawley 2021 University of South Alabama

Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists And The Politics Of Scale, Elizabeth S. Hawley

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Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives, Sara Stepp 2021 University of Kansas

Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives, Sara Stepp

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Art Inquiries, Xviii:2-3, Full Issue, 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

Art Inquiries, Xviii:2-3, Full Issue

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No abstract provided.


Consuming Stories: Kara Walker And The Imagining Of American Race, Nancy Wellington Bookhart 2021 Paine College

Consuming Stories: Kara Walker And The Imagining Of American Race, Nancy Wellington Bookhart

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Book review of Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race, by Rebecca Peabody.


Back Matter, 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

Back Matter

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Photographic Returns: Racial Justice And The Time Of Photography, Laura Elizabeth Shea 2021 Saint Anselm College

Photographic Returns: Racial Justice And The Time Of Photography, Laura Elizabeth Shea

Art Inquiries

Book review of Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography, by Shawn Michelle Smith.


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