On March 2nd, Dr. Kate Beane, Andrea Carlson, Lydia Chesewalla, and Marisa Cummings came together to discuss how cultural institutions that espouse a progressive politics of inclusion can work with Native communities to repair the histories of violence and dispossession foundational to their formation.
Read More“We don't have all the answers and we don't know exactly how it's going to work, but we know that collaborating with those who want to engage in this project and dive in with us will create meaningful opportunities. Hopefully, change comes from that.”
Read MoreOn January 18th, Amplify’s 2021 Alternate Currents Working Group came together to celebrate the launch of their collaborative publication, Given All This: Collective Institutional Futures and to talk more about where we’ve been, how we’ve changed, and what the future might hold.
Read More“Everyone was affected. Everyone was dying. Everyone needed to start having conversations about their health in different ways. And…all of a sudden, these glaring disparities become bigger…”
Read More“When it comes to the museum going into neighborhoods or communities, they really have to think about the characteristics of the community and what that community is actually about.”
Read MoreOn November 17th, Sarah Lynn Brown, Kyle Laidig, and Joelle Sandfort came together for a discussion about how independent, alternative, DIY, and artist-run spaces can question and queer institutional hierarchies through collective ownership, community-informed decision making, and horizontal leadership.
Read More“La Berge offers a comparative look at the aesthetics of socially engaged art, covering an impressive array of artists that both incorporate and represent a general condition of living beyond the wage.”
Read MoreOn August 19th, Natalie Bell, Mary Lawson, and Jared Ledesma sat down with Jared Packard for a virtual discussion about inclusive curatorial practices that center making projects, performances, and exhibitions with community instead of about.
Read MoreWhen important constituencies are ignored or dismissed in exhibition planning and curatorial decision making processes, the likelihood of institutions misinterpreting subject matter that puts forth ethical, social, political, or economic relations which exist beyond the boundaries of the institution’s walls becomes a distinct reality.
Read More“I want you to come in, and learn, and share, and do what you can. Ultimately, we're trying to save our culture. We're trying to save our language. You can't let something as trivial as money get in the way of that.”
Read More“I think that it can be really hard to work with any type of structure that is rooted in capitalism on anything that is inherently non-dominant culture driven belief systems, on anything that is based in gift ecology, on anything that asks for collective ownership.”
Read MoreDuring a virtual conversation on May 27th, panelists Rebecca Carew, Alex O’Hanlon, and Caitlin Osborn sat down with moderator Lillian Snortland for a virtual discussion to reimagine how philanthropy in the arts might match calls for solidarity with meaningful reform.
Read More“So, to have support from the community without having to do the whole nonprofit thing, it just felt right. I felt a sense of urgency and and the only way to do it was just to do it, just to catapult into it. That was an innate reasoning, and it wasn't really a choice, it just happened.”
Read More“Reimagined and reconfigured as emancipatory, art institutions could create a radically different world where people’s needs are taken care of and where everyone can luxuriate in the full experience of being human.”
Read MoreDuring a virtual conversation on March 24th, panelists glyneisha, Jonathan González, and Lillian Snortland sat down together to reimagine relationships between artists and institutions by considering artist-initiated projects that aim to shift institutional paradigms of racial equity, fair pay, and institutional transparency.
Read More“What does it mean to push against soulless, lofty spaces that prop up the notion of individual exceptionalism…? What does it mean to exchange that notion of institutional success for new definitions of how we collectively value making meaning together?”
Read More“The conceit of western white supremacist colonial capitalism to say that 200 years in place is a long time, and to denote an authority over place, is hilarious to think about.”
Read MoreOn January 28th, panelists Marisa Miakonda Cummings, Risa Puleo, and Steve Tamayo sat down for a virtual discussion, moderated by Annika Johnson, to examine land acknowledgements within cultural institutions and question their potential to move beyond performative activism and ignite real structural change.
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