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The Museum Studies Program is both enormously sad and enormously excited to announce that our Program Coordinator Meg Hutchins (M.A. '15) will be leaving her position to become Manager of Engagement and Collections for the State of Delaware's Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. Meg has been instrumental to our Program's growth in enrollment and community engagement, but we're glad she'll be helping to open new opportunities for our students and the broader public in the State's collections. In other words, she'll probably get to continue dressing up to advocate. ;) Congratulations Meg!
This article asks if it's time for an African American version of NAGPRA. Or might we need legislation that addresses colonial acquisitions of human and spiritual artifacts from communities more broadly?
What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved?
www.nytimes.com
As one museum has pledged to return skulls held in an infamous collection, others, including the Smithsonian, are reckoning with their own holdings of African-American remains.
The Museum Studies Program is proud to collaborate on this important work at UD. Our fall digital exhibitions course will build an interactive campus tour focused on histories of race at the University, and many of our students are doing internships and research to support the UD Anti-Racism Initiative (UDARI).
University of Delaware to explore slavery legacy at the Newark campus
whyy.org
UD joins a consortium studying how the work of people held in slavery, or those who held people as slaves, influenced the history of the schools.
An innovative approach to diversifying curatorial authority...
Security guards become guest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art
www.theartnewspaper.com
The forthcoming show, developed with the help of art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, aims to highlight a “multiplicity of curatorial voices in major institutions”
Our alumni continue to advance the field. Congratulations to Shana Bushyhead Condill ('01)!
While Serving Visitors, New Director Wants Cherokee Indian Museum To Focus On Own Community
www.bpr.org
People associate the sound of a lone wooden flute as traditionally Native American. And while this sound accompanies the centerpiece video on the Visit