Kudos to Courtney Cottrell (MSP 12) who assisted with Ancestral Women Exhibit: Wisconsin’s 12 Tribes this past fall at the Center for the Visual Arts in Wausau, WI. In this exhibit, award-winning jacquard weaver, Mary Burns, honored womens’ journeys by creating their portraits in jacquard weavings. ...
Tobi Voigt from the Detroit Historical Society will discuss a current project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil unrest of July 1967. Called Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward, the project’s purpose is to bring together diverse voices and communities around...
When Englishman James Smithson left $500,000 to the United States of America to establish the Smithsonian Institution in 1829, he improbably forced the United States Congress to design America’s first national benevolent institution. This talk will address how Congress came to a decision about...
The MSP graduate certificate program creates an interdisciplinary environment for exploring historical and current theoretical, ethical and practice-based issues in and about museums (and related cultural institutions) from an “applied-theory” (or “critical practice”) perspective. In a 12-credit hour plus practicum curriculum, students gain a...
Art for Sale? Public Trust, Public Debt: The Detroit Institute of Arts and the City of Detroit Bankruptcy In the two years since the City of Detroit came out of bankruptcy, it has not been uncommon to read in mainstream media and the blogosphere...
Aspiration/Obligation? Imagining Intellectual Freedom in Museums This event features leading figures from the American Library Association and the National Coalition against Censorship to advance a dialogue to assure—in the absence of national policy—rights of access to controversial museum exhibitions, museum collections information, and museum...
