Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums

Informationen zum Autor Pat Villeneuve is professor and director of arts administration in the Department of Art Education, Florida State University, where she has developed graduate programs in museum education and visitor-centered exhibitions. Pat is editor of the book From Periphery to Center: Art Museum Education in the 21st Century and recipient of the National Art Education Association national museum educator of the year award in 2009. She has published and presented extensively nationally and internationally and has developed supported interpretation, a model for visitor-centered exhibitions.Ann Rowson Love is the coordinating faculty member for the museum education and visitor-centered exhibitions program in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. She is also faculty liaison to The Ringling. Ann has been a museum educator, curator, and administrator for over 25 years. She presents and publishes widely on curatorial collaboration, visitor studies, and art museum interpretation. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Kaywin FeldmanPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I. Foundations: The Need for Edu-Curation1. From There to Here: In Support of Visitor-Centered ExhibitionsPat Villeneuve 2. Edu-Curation and the Edu-CuratorAnn Rowson Love and Pat Villeneuve3. Rethinking Curator/Educator Training and Interaction in the Co-Production of Art Museum ExhibitionsBrian HogarthPart II. Readiness: Structuring Your Approach4. From Consultation to Collaboration: Mechanisms for Integrating Community Voices into Exhibition DevelopmentJudith Koke and Keri Ryan5. Dynamic Moments: Testing High-Engagement Visitor Experiences at the Asian Art Museum of San FranciscoMaia Werner-Avidon, Deborah Clearwaters and Dany Chan6. Cu-Rate: Starting Curatorial Collaboration with Evaluation Ann Rowson Love7. Aligning Authority with Responsibility for InterpretationKathryn E. Blake, Jerry N. Smith and Christian Adame Part III. Collaboration in Action8. Beyond the Gate: Collaborating with Living Artists to Bring Communities into the Museum and the Museum into CommunitiesMaureen Thomas-Zaremba and Matthew McLendon9. Collaboration Within and Outside the Museum: Student-Written Labels in a Featured Exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtRosie Riordan and Stephanie Fox Knappe10. Supported Interpretation: Building a Visitor-Centered Exhibition ModelPat Villeneuve11. The Absolute Resolution Photography Exhibition: Facilitating Visitor Engagement with Supported Interpretation (SI)Alicia Viera, Carla Ellard and Kathy Vargas12. Visitor as Activist: A Mobile Social Justice Museum's Call for Critical Visitor Engagement Monica O. Montgomery and Hannah HellerPart IV. Seeing Inside the Process13. Multivocal, Collaborative Practices in Community-Based Art Museum ExhibitionsMarianna Pegno and Chelsea Farrar14. For the Use of ArtAstrid Cats15. Philosophical Inquiry: A Tool for Decision Making in Participatory CurationTrish Scott, Ayisha de Lanerolle, Karen Eslea and individual participants16. Teaching Visitor-Centered Exhibitions: A Duoethnography of Two Team Members Ann Rowson Love and John Jay BodaPart V. Sustaining Engaged Organizational L...

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

Pat Villeneuve is Professor and Director of Arts Administration in the Florida State University Department of Art Education and a 2021 Fulbright scholar to Belgium. She has had lengthy careers in museums and academe and has published and presented extensively on art museum education, edu-curation, visitor-centered exhibitions, paradigmatic change, and the Dimensions of Curation model. Pat developed the graduate program (MA and Ph.D.) in edu-curation at Florida State University and published Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums in 2017 with Ann Rowson Love. She keynoted the ICOM International Committee for Education and Cultural Action conference in Leuven, Belgium, in 2021.Ann Rowson Love is Associate Professor and Director of the MA/PhD program Museum Education & Visitor-Centered Curation in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. She has more than 30 years of experience as a museum educator, curator, administrator, and scholar in art museums. She presents and publishes widely on collaborative curation, art museum interpretation, visitor studies, and feminist systems thinking. Her co-edited books include Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums and Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Curators Committee (CurCom) Professional Network of the American Alliance of Museums.

Product details

• Authors: Pat (EDT)/ Love Villeneuve, Pat Love Villeneuve
• Assisted by: Ann Rowson Love (Editor), Love Ann Rowson (Editor), Pat Villeneuve (Editor), Villeneuve Pat (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781442278981
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7898-1
• No. of pages: 298
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