This book present a model to help you to make sense of exhibitions your museum has curated. Whether implicit or intentional, decisions made about interpretive focus, curatorial power, and curatorial intent indelibly shape the resulting exhibition and determine who will be best served or disenfranchised by it

Exhibition making requires great effort and resources. Are your exhibitions attracting audiences and drawing them back to your museum? The Dimensions of Curation Competing Values Exhibition Model uses three axes to help you to make sense of exhibitions your museum has curated and think intentionally about future curatorial decisions. Whether implicit or intentional, decisions made about interpretive focus, curatorial power, and curatorial intent indelibly shape the resulting exhibition and determine who will be best served or disenfranchised by it.

This book:

• Introduces competing values and organizational models that address them.
• Explains the three axes comprising the model and the eight types of exhibitions that result from various combinations of positions on the axes.
• Looks in depth at case studies of the eight different exhibition types.
• Provides candid observations about changing curatorial practices.
• Offers tools to help museums implement the model.

Two sections of the book feature practice-based examples from museums in the US and internationally. The third section of the book concentrates on practical tools and considerations for the future of exhibition curation.

Preface: Ann Rowson Love and Pat Villeneuve

Acknowledgments

Part I

Chapter 1: The Dimensions of Curation Competing Values Model, Pat Villeneuve and Ann Rowson Love

Part II: Two Dimensions: Traditional, Exclusive, Sympathetic, and Inclusive Quadrants

Traditional(Object (x) + Lone Creative (y) = Traditional)

Chapter 2: Queering the Museum: From a Traditional Model Towards a More Inclusive Practice Kara Fedje

Chapter 3: Using Traditional Practice to Review the Chinese National Art Exhibition Zida Wang

Exclusive(Object (x) + Collaborative (y) = Exclusive)

Chapter 4: Iterations of Curating with Matthew Ritchie: Working Collaboratively During the COVID-19 pandemic Stefanie Dlugosz-Acton

Chapter 5: The Artist is No Longer Present: Reconsidering Cross-Border Exhibition Curating in the Post Pandemic Era Ting Zhang

Sympathetic(Audience (x) + Lone Creative (y) = Sympathetic)

Chapter 6: A Shared Body – Re-envisioning Curatorial Collaboration in an Academic Art Museum Annie Booth and Meredith Lynn,

Chapter 7:Ally is a Verb: Adopting a Sympathetic Curatorial Practice to Build Advocacy and Community Within a Teaching Museum Alexia Lobaina

Inclusive (Audience (x) + Collaborative (y) = Inclusive)

Chapter 8: Art Connects Jennifer Jankauskas and Laura Ashley N. Bocquin

,Chapter 9: Responsive, Relational, and Disruptive: A Case Study in Community-Based CurationMarianna Pegno, Christine Brindza, Patricia Lannes, and Cecilia Garibay

Part III: Three Dimensions: Exhibitions that ___

Disseminate (Object (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Democratization of Culture (z) = Disseminate)

Chapter 10: Traditional Practice that Disseminates: Native Brazil/Alien BrazilPeter Aerts

Chapter 11: Something’s Off: Reconsidering Traditional Practice Michelle Sunset

Discern(Object (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Cultural Democracy (z) = Discern)

Chapter 12: Discerning the Cryosphere: Humans and Climate in Art from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Elizabeth Nogrady

Chapter 13: Discerning with a Good Voice: Hówašte at The Heritage Center Ashley Pourier and Audrey Jacobs

Enrich(Object (x) + Collaborative (y) + Democratization of Culture (z) = Enrich)

Chapter 14: Not Just Dissemination, an Enriched Experience: Ming Dynasty Costume Exhibition Xiaonan Jiang and Xuejing Dai

Chapter 15: SKIN, a Multisensory Art Exhibition for Children Aged 8+ and Their Families Stefanie Metsemaker and Gerd Dierckx

Amplify(Object (x) + Collaborative (y) = Cultural Democracy (z) = Amplify)

Chapter 16: Challenging Romaphobia: The Case of a Romanian Carnival Mask at Mucem Julia Ferloni and Emilie Sitzia

Chapter 17: Lock & Key Creative Expression Lab: A Curated Space During the Pandemic Ashley Hartman and Melanie Rosato

Mediate(Audience (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Democratization of Culture = Mediate)

Chapter 18: The Same Four Walls: Inspiration and Reflection During a Global PandemicLesley Marchessault

Chapter 19: SCREEN IT: Mediation-Driven Inclusive Approach to Art, Technology, and Audiences Pieter Jan Valgaeren

Inspire(Audience (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Cultural Democracy (z) = Inspire)

Chapter 20: The Boneyard: Inspiring through In-Gallery Artist Demonstrations Courtney Taylor, Andy Shaw, and Grant Benoit

Chapter 21: There is No Planet B! An Audience Participation Project Meant to Inspire Aline Van Nereaux

EmpowerAudience (x) + Collaborative (y) + Democratization of Culture (z) = Empower)

Chapter 22: EmPOWER: Learning from our Youngest Community Members at the Clyfford Still Museum Nicole Cromartie and Bailey H. Placzek

Chapter 23: Anybody Home? Roselyne Francken and Tammy Wille

Act(Audience (x) + Collaborative (y) + Cultural Democracy (z) = Act)

Chapter 25: Boundless Hospitality: M From a Different Perspective Sofie Vermeiren

Part IV: Curatorial Change and Tools

Chapter 26: One Museum, Three Dimensions of Curation: A Script Jay Boda, Charlie Farrell, Madison Grigsby, Anneliese Hardman

Chapter 27: You Say You Want a Revolution: Empowering the Edu-Curator Emily Dellheim,

Chapter 28: M Leuven: A Holistic Approach in Exhibition MakingPeter Carpreau and Sofie Vermeiren

Chapter 29: Inclusive Curatorial Practice Lynette A. Zimmerman

Chapter 30: Toward an Interactive Model of Competing Values: From Visualization to Toolkit Morgan Joseph Hamilton

Chapter 31: Dimensions of Education: Adapting the Curatorial Model for Museum Education Audrey Jacobs and Ashley Williams

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