Dear Colleagues: I am sharing here the Call for Submissions for the 5th issue of Fwd: Museums Journal: __ Submission form & more info: https://tinyurl.com/Fwd2020 __ Call for Submissions 2020 Fwd: Museums Journal - Home Produced and edited by University of Illinois at Chicago Museum and Exhibition Studies graduate students and published by Chicago-based StepSister Press, Fwd: Museums strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and providing alternative modes of thinking and production within and outside of museums. http://artandarthistory.uic.edu/uic_masters_muse http://stepsisterpress.org/ Mission Statement: Recognizing the need to critically transform museums, Fwd: Museums strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and imagining alternative modes of thinking and production within and outside of museums. Theme - HOME: A home is not a house, and a house is not a home. A house contains objects and composes rooms. However, it is the concept of the home that connotes an expanded range of mindsets and desires. What does it mean to be a home? A home informs individual and community identity. While the contemporary home has become synonymous with stature, prestige, and trend, instead of being a place for truth, comfort, and a sense of security. And yet, some people find their homes in strange ways, new countries, and even housed in institutional spaces like museums. Can museums function or have qualities of a home? A home is an assemblage of spaces that build emotional intelligence, characterizes ecological concerns, stages diverse ideologies, celebrates culture, makes or breaks political belief, and records the history of the inhabitants in imagined or factual ways. How can one word hold such power and embody so many meanings? A home is personal. It can be a thought, a mood, a memory, a smell or an image. As a place of steady routines and rituals, inhabitants can intimately connect with every nook, cranny, and detail while recounting the stories and secrets of their home. What secrets reside in your home? A home is a collective obsession. As a marketing campaign for the ‘American Dream’, today’s populace is bombarded with home improvement shows with visions of bigger is better. The commercial domain of domesticity is branding and selling a home as a product. Within the Craigslist ecosystem of click-view-select we hunt for rental spaces and even DIY projects that impart a sense of home, becoming wanderers in search of the perfect abode. Meanwhile, the struggle to avoid homelessness in the face of housing shortages often reduces the home to a mere refuge. How does a home become an asylum or a prison? A home is ever changing. This issue proposes home as a universal concept that is relative in its struggles, iterations, and connotations. From the habits and connections in the domestic sphere experienced everyday to the compressions and extensions of borders and behavior at the Homeland Security checkpoints, share your stories, visions, and projections of HOME with Fwd: Museums. Submission topics may include but are not limited to: Collections within the home House museums How collections and artifacts are housed Comfort/Safety experiences within museums and lack thereof Feeling at home in museums Family/Challenging ideas of family Artifacts from people's homes Looting/Repatriation Beyond Repatriation Home/house archiving How museums address im/migration or displacement from home/homelands Gentrification/Artwashing/Homelessness Public/Personal/Collective Memory Preservation and destruction Heritage/Culture Depictions of home in art Domesticity explored/Roles we play inside the home Home as a basic human right Libraries vs. museums as open public spaces Design as a tool to make a home/anti-home Defining borders Architecture - the bones of a/that make a home Site of civic engagement/communal spaces Invasions of the home And many more! Submit: Fwd: Museums invites academic articles, artwork, essays, exhibition/book reviews, creative writing, interviews, poetry, love letters, and other experimental forms to analyze, critique, and make space for new thinking about museums and exhibitions. All submissions should follow the guidelines and relate to the journal’s mission statement (see above). We strongly encourage book and exhibition reviews on multiple topics, but require all other submissions to connect to the fifth issue’s theme, “Home.” Guidelines Written submissions should be between 1,000 and 2,500 words and in one of the following formats: DOCX, Rich Text, or ASCII, using Chicago Manual of Style formatting and citations. All images should be sent as separate files (not embedded in text) at 300+ dpi in tiff format. Note in text where images should be inserted and include credit, caption, date of execution, materials used, and dimensions, as appropriate. A Note on Reviews Reviews need not directly engage the issue’s theme but should relate to the journal’s mission statement (see below). We welcome long-form museum, exhibition, film, and book reviews with a point of view and connections to social, historical, political and other contexts. Who Should Submit? Students, faculty, scholars, professionals, artists, amateurs, adjuncts, volunteers, part-timers, philanthropists, activists, and other people with something to say about museums, exhibits, and cultural work are welcome to submit. 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