Fundraising To Attend 100th New England Museum Association Conference
Our panel "Power of Protest: When the People Curate" was invited.
As most of us are concerned community members and not museum professionals, we are engaging in a fundraising effort to make sure our beautiful speakers are cared for - meaning their registration, food, transportation and honorarium are covered.
We see this conference as a critical access point for transformative conversation with museum professionals - especially curators- that can foster deeper understanding and identify accountable action: We plan to end the panel with a workshop leading museum professionals who attend into identifying one commitment they can make based on their access to representation and economic liberation.
We are fundraising to cover registration, travel and stipend for each participant
Trip by car (Boston-Stamford)
$100 per car
Ticket by Amtrak
$92 (2 Round Trip NYC/ Stamford Amtrak), $184
Organizing and workshop development
$275
Honorarium
$200 per person for 5 people = $1000
Speaker Registration (Early Bird 1 Day w/ lunch)
Note: We are applying to NEMA for scholarship to waive registration
$145 per person, 6 people = $870
Representation is important. Please help us ensure the people who are insisting Museums be responsible and accountable through protest are at the table. Literally. Please support working artists and low-income culture workers of color.
Session Details
SESSION TITLE
Protest of Power: When the People Curate - a Panel + Workshop
Description
Join activists, culture workers, and museum professionals to discuss how to change the power dynamic in traditional museum curation. How has traditional curation reinforced and been rewarded by white supremacy? What is the responsibility of the institutions that benefit from traditional curation and how can they be held accountable? What does an alternate, radical, resistance curation look like? How might we begin doing this immediately as museum professionals? A Panel + Workshop
If all goes well, The Whitest Cube will be putting a podcast of the conference together, parts of which will be livestreamed.
Date/Time
Thursday Nov 8, 2:45-4:15pm
Panelists
Museum of Impact with Monica Montgomery, Founding Director and Curator Monica Montgomery of the Museum of Impact, the world's first mobile social justice museum, inspiring action at the intersection of art, activism, self and society.
Decolonize This Place with Amin Husain, co-founder of Decolonize this Place, a space that is action-oriented around indigenous struggle, black liberation, Free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification. Facilitated by MTL+. Tremendous intersectional actions #decolonizethisplace.
The Whitest Cube with Ariana Lee + Palace Shaw, founders of multimedia project including a podcast, launched in June of 2018. We talk about art institutions from the perspective of people of color, with a focus on Boston's art culture. The Whitest Cube podcast hosts conversations about art institutions that feature artists, museum professionals, and people of color in our city. Outside of our podcast, we collaborate with partners to manifest these conversations in physical spaces, including panels, trainings, and events. Facilitators of on-site podcasting.
Decolonize Our Museums with Pampi, culture worker and the digital and mixed media performance artist, poet, facilitator, and culture worker at third eye fell. They make work in community in order to share the therapeutic and empowering benefits of the expressive arts to mental health and agency. Pampi is one of the organizers at Decolonize Our Museums, a group of concerned community members in the greater Boston area that have facilitated and contributed to public dialogue and institutional accountability at both the MFA and ICA - garnering international attention. Panel organizer and workshop designer and facilitator.
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND GENEROSITY
