During the 50th anniversary year (2000) at the Tweed Museum of Art, and
several times since, we have used what we call "community curators" to
work with our curatorial staff to select objects from our collections
for ancillary exhibitions, which are intended to be seen alongside of
larger exhibitions and somehow mirror or extend their theme.
We also asked these "community curators," who were often artists,
collectors, and/or educators, to write an introductory label explaining
why they chose certain objects.
Any program like this needs to be closely monitored by staff, but it
has proven to be another good way to give the community a voice in our
program.
Peter Spooner
Curator, Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota Duluth
--On Monday, February 27, 2006 2:08 PM -0800 Marieke Van Damme
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> Hello-
> I was just reading my latest issue of the Curator
> Journal (p. 122) about the Brooklyn Museum of Art and
> the National Museum of the American Indian having
> "community curators", that is, "ordinary" museumgoers,
> write the object labels in exhibits. Has anyone done
> this with success/failure? Is there a place I can go
> to learn more about it? I think it is a great concept
> but I'd like to see who else has tried it.
>
> Thanks,
> Marieke
>
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Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota Duluth
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