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Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums promotes balanced practices that are visitor-centered while honoring the integrity and powerful storytelling of art objects. Book examples present challenges and best practices that move beyond the turning point, where curation and education are engaged in full and equal collaboration.
List of contents
Foreword by Kaywin Feldman
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Foundations: The Need for Edu-Curation
1. From There to Here: In Support of Visitor-Centered Exhibitions
Pat Villeneuve
2. Edu-Curation and the Edu-Curator
Ann Rowson Love and Pat Villeneuve
3. Rethinking Curator/Educator Training and Interaction in the Co-Production of Art Museum Exhibitions
Brian Hogarth
Part II. Readiness: Structuring Your Approach
4. From Consultation to Collaboration: Mechanisms for Integrating Community Voices into Exhibition Development
Judith Koke and Keri Ryan
5. Dynamic Moments: Testing High-Engagement Visitor Experiences at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Maia Werner-Avidon, Deborah Clearwaters and Dany Chan
6. Cu-Rate: Starting Curatorial Collaboration with Evaluation
Ann Rowson Love
7. Aligning Authority with Responsibility for Interpretation
Kathryn E. Blake, Jerry N. Smith and Christian Adame
Part III. Collaboration in Action
8. Beyond the Gate: Collaborating with Living Artists to Bring Communities into the Museum and the Museum into Communities
Maureen Thomas-Zaremba and Matthew McLendon
9. Collaboration Within and Outside the Museum: Student-Written Labels in a Featured Exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Rosie Riordan and Stephanie Fox Knappe
10. Supported Interpretation: Building a Visitor-Centered Exhibition Model
Pat Villeneuve
11. The Absolute Resolution Photography Exhibition: Facilitating Visitor Engagement with Supported Interpretation (SI)
Alicia Viera, Carla Ellard and Kathy Vargas
12. Visitor as Activist: A Mobile Social Justice Museum's Call for Critical Visitor Engagement
Monica O. Montgomery and Hannah Heller
Part IV. Seeing Inside the Process
13. Multivocal, Collaborative Practices in Community-Based Art Museum Exhibitions
Marianna Pegno and Chelsea Farrar
14. For the Use of Art
Astrid Cats
15. Philosophical Inquiry: A Tool for Decision Making in Participatory Curation
Trish Scott, Ayisha de Lanerolle, Karen Eslea and individual participants
16. Teaching Visitor-Centered Exhibitions: A Duoethnography of Two Team Members
Ann Rowson Love and John Jay Boda
Part V. Sustaining Engaged Organizational Learning
17. Complementary: Reflections on Curator-Educator Teamwork at the Denver Art Museum
Stefania Van Dyke
18. Building a Workplace That Supports Educator - Curator Collaboration
Jennifer Wild Czajkowski and Salvador Salort-Pons
19. Visitor-Centered Exhibition Design: Theory into Practice
Elizabeth K. Eder, Andrew Pekarik and Zeynep Simavi
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Pat Villeneuve and Ann Rowson Love
Summary
Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums promotes balanced practices that are visitor-centered while honoring the integrity and powerful storytelling of art objects. Book examples present challenges and best practices that move beyond the turning point, where curation and education are engaged in full and equal collaboration.
