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And @museumprogress, this was sparked by your post that @PLinett's riffing on - thanks for the smart provocation!
https://museumprogress.com/letters/do-museums-need-to-stop-trying-to-meet-community-needs
New post from @PLinett about community-based #research as one of the ways a #cultural org or #arts funder supports its community.
It starts with seeing not just the holes & gaps in the latticework, but the connective structures that hold it all together.
Community as Full Partner in the Inquiry | Slover Linett
Thoughts by Peter Linett about how cultural organizations can collaborate on a level playing field with their commun...
sloverlinett.com
And apropos, we're excited to be talking about conducting another #research study of the #socialimpacts of folk & traditional #arts in lives and communities. (Our first was with @CalTradArts a few years ago. Learned and unlearned a lot since then!) Stay tuned...
So proud of my Santa Fe neighbor, artist & santero Luis Tapia, named an @NEAarts National #Heritage Fellow - our country's highest honor in the folk & traditional arts.
Great to see recognition of the political, social & protest power of his artwork.
https://www.abqjournal.com/2582857/honoring-a-trailblazer-2.html
So proud of my Santa Fe neighbor, artist & santero Luis Tapia, named an @NEAarts National #Heritage Fellow - our country's highest honor in the folk & traditional arts.
Great to see recognition of the political, social & protest power of his artwork.
Santa Fe santero Luis Tapia has won the nation’s highest distinction in the folk and traditional arts
Famed for blending the Hispanic carving tradition with contemporary commentary, Santa Fe santero Luis Tapia has won ...
www.abqjournal.com
Read the (beautiful) article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/arts/design/kehinde-wiley-de-young-museum.html
A "respite room" where viewers can process, mourn, repair.
This is why we love working with @deyoungmuseum & other cultural orgs that are rethinking, decolonizing, healing. Kudos to Abram Jackson & others @ FAMSF for getting that it's not just what goes on the walls...
#ICYMI here's @MellonFdn Pres. Elizabeth Alexander and @smithsonian Sec. Lonnie Bunch on the role of museums in telling the #AmericanStory. A fascinating and timely conversation:
Watch: State of Our Union: Telling the American Story | Mellon Foundation
How can we craft an American story with room for all? Find out from two of our country’s foremost cultural leaders.
mellon.org
Big thanks to #BAM for this gorgeous image: Sing Harlem Choir performing at the 2022 Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Photo credit: Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images for Brooklyn Academy of Music.)
We're so proud to work with amazing antiracist, justice-focused system-changers in #arts and #culture. Our sector has a unique role to play—and much more work to do. (Same goes for social #research and #evaluation.)
So let's take a breath together, remember Dr. King...and sing.