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Gregg Deal\u27s White Indian (2016): The Decolonial Possibilities of Museum Performance
Full text linkGregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute) is a performance and visual artist whose work deals explicitly in decolonizing the contemporary experience of Indigenous peoples. An analysis of his performance ofWhite Indian in 2016 at the Denver Art Museum opens up the possibilities of performance as a method for museums to decolonize their spaces and curation.
Kanaka \u27?iwi Critical Race Theory: Historical and Cultural Ecological Understanding of Kanaka \u27?iwi Education
No full textThe effects of colonization on Kanaka \u27?iwi, the Indigenous people of Hawai\u27i, have led to the systematic distancing of Kanaka \u27?iwi from their cultural ways of knowing, replacing it, instead with eurocentric standards of education that adversely impact Kanaka \u27?iwi wellbeing. In this article, I provide an overview of the history of colonization of Kanaka \u27?iwi through a critical race lens. Critical Race Theory and TribalCrit are reviewed in relation to their theoretical relevance to Kanaka \u27?iwi epistemologies. A synthesis model of an adapted CRT and TribalCrit framework called, Kanaka\u27?iwiCrit is presented and discussed within the context of education as a space for resistance
OjO Latino: A Photovoice Project in Recognition of the Latino Presence in Pittsburgh, PA
Full text linkIn recent years, the Latino population has increased rapidly in areas with traditionally low concentration of Latinos. In these emerging communities, Latinos often live scattered, confronting social isolation and social services not tailored to serve their cultural and linguistic needs. Latinos’ invisibility in Pittsburgh is evidenced by the absence of records of the Latino presence in the city’s museums and public archives. OjO Latino, a community engaged project, sought to advance the inclusion of the Latino community in Pittsburgh through Photovoice. This participatory expression methodology enables individuals to share their stories with the larger public through cultural and artistic expression. The intentional organization of the project as a group activity facilitated the transfer of power over the project to participants, creating solidarity and fomenting trust. During four meetings participants took part in a short photography training, discussed their photographs addressing the meaning of being Latino in Pittsburgh, and selected 34 photographs for exhibition organizing them in four themes: Work, Costumes, Family and Landscape and climate. OjO Latino held one exhibit in a community venue and another one at the university. In addition, the photographs are available in an electronic public repository. OjO Latino served a dual purpose of expanding the visibility of Latinos in and educating the larger community. The OjO Latino team got closer to the ways Latino immigrants see and experience the city. Their gaze challenged our own views and experiences and also spoke the saliency of nostalgia and social networks in their lives. The open discussion of what it means to be Latino in an emerging community and the opportunity to produce a visual account of it, along with the acknowledgment of the presence of this diverse population promote human rights, ethnic identity as well as mental and social health
Reflections on Race-ing the Museum, Two Years Later
Full text linkHistory of Art and Architecture professors and co-facilitators of the Race-ing the Museum workshop, Fozi and Savage offer insights into the workshop, its context, and its achievements
“An Imagined Border of Safety, Humanitarian Relief, and Creativity”: J.M. Design Studio’s Other Border Wall Project
Full text link In April 2017, J.M. Design Studio—three Pittsburgh-based artists and designers—responded to the Customs and Border Protection\u27s public request for proposals for a wall along the US-Mexico border. J.M. Design Studio then announced their own call for more border "wall" proposals from other artists. The following commentary details these prototype concepts and tracks the executive policies and rhetoric that established a foundation for the border wall. This commentary also shows how J.M. Design Studio’s prototype submission and the subsequent artistic platform they initiated both model how creative connection and the co-option of established public channels are themselves acts of political resistance in an era of disrupted democratic participation and ossified partisanship.
Unsettled: Exhibiting the Greater West
Full text linkUnsettled Exhibition schedule: The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, August 26, 2017—January 21, 2018; Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska, April 6, 2018—September 9, 2018; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, October 27, 2018—February 18, 2019
Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents
Full text linkBook Review: Anneka Lenssen, Sarah A. Rogers, and Nada M. Shabout. Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, in association with Duke University Press, 2018. 464 pp.; 49 ills.; 51 b/w ills. Paperback, $40 (1633450384, 9781633450387
20/20: The Studio Museum of Harlem and the Carnegie Museum of Art
Full text linkExhibition schedule: Carnegie Museum of Art, July 22–December 31, 2017
