Dear colleagues: Please consider participating in the project below, and
forward to other likely participants. In particular, right now we are looking
for artist's projects, writings by workers in museums, and visuals, but welcome
all contributions. Thank you, Therese Quinn
Call for Submissions
The Elusive Excellence of Equity:
A Book about Museums and Social Justice
Seeking contributions from museum-workers, educators, artists, and others
engaged with museums.
Our goal?
To develop a collection of theoretical and practical narratives, models, and
resources towards more critical and engaged museology and museum studies.
We invite:
Essays; museum studies curricula/classroom narratives; practitioner research;
poems; photographs; comix; journalistic muck-raking; speculative-or-actual
programs, exhibits, museums; manifestoes; mappings of corporate control in
museums; union-organizing materials made/used by museum-employees; songs for
picketing museums; museum based-or-inspired art projects; critical gender,
queer, ability, race analyses; annotated resource lists; cultural/historical/
theoretical examinations of museums/museum-work; more.
The constant?
Submissions must be bold, address power, and articulate commitments to social
justice perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts: January 2005
Questions and submissions:
Therese Quinn ([log in to unmask]), The School of the Art Institute Chicago
Patrick Roberts ([log in to unmask]), National-Louis University
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Therese Quinn, Assistant Professor
Director of BFA with Emphasis in Art Education Program
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 S. Wabash Avenue, Rm. 433A
Chicago IL 60603
(312) 629-9186 PH, (312) 899-1477 FX
[log in to unmask]
www.museumworkers.org
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