Please join RISD and Waterfire Providence for a symposium on the controversial artist intervention on the Rosa Parks House. The day begins with a tour of the project followed by panel discussions about art, preservation, and memory. This project brings up questions of race, artistic …
Hello and Welcome Back! It’s graduation time in academia! A time to pass torches, hand over keys, etc. As rising second year students in the Tufts Museum Studies program, we are very excited to take over where Dominque and Andrea left off, and we wish …
The Tufts Museum Studies Blog is run by second-year masters students. Each year, the graduating editors pass on responsibility of the blog to a new set of editors. So, as graduation season approaches, it is time for Dominique and Andrea to say goodbye, and announce some exciting news for this coming year!
But first, we need to say THANK YOU!
This past year we had some great guest authors, good discussions, and hopefully helped connect some readers with their next job. Subscriptions rates just about doubled, and we are confident that readership will continue to grow well over the next few years! And it was all thanks to you for keeping our blog healthy and running, and sharing it with your fiends and coworkers. Thank you for sending us job postings, reading the email newsletters, spreading the word, and contributing posts!
Now for the sad goodbyes. A note from Dominique and Andrea:
This past year running the blog has been a fantastic experience. The museum community (as always!) was very friendly and supportive, and it was a joy to be a part of bringing that community even closer through this platform. This is a very welcoming space for exploring the most current museum topics and news. I am excited to see where the blog continues under the hands of the wonderful new editors! – Andrea
Thank you for letting us be a part of your weekly routine through the newsletter and blog posts! It has been a refreshing, invigorating, and rewarding experience to be able to take part in the meaningful dialogue that surrounds our museum work. I hope we left you all with a little bit of inspiration and insight through our posts. We are leaving the blog in excellent hands, and I cannot wait to see it continue to grow and reach larger audiences in the future. Thank you for all your support!! – Dominique
And now, for the BIG NEWS!
Some years this blog has been run by one editor, and other years by two editors, but this coming year there will be THREE editors! This means that there will be a student from each of Tufts’ three Museum Studies Masters programs – Art History and Museum Studies, History and Museum Studies, and Museum Education. We are very excited about how their different perspectives will broaden the voice of the blog! Stay tuned for next week when they will introduce themselves to you and begin the new year!
Thank you all for a great year!
Dominique Marcial & Andrea Woodberry
In recent months the Worcester Art Museum has mounted labels that re-contextualize the paintings of wealthy Americans from the past. Throughout history, prominent and stately portraits have consisted of subjects who can afford to have such works painted. Oftentimes these paintings depict individuals who owned …
Marieke Van Damme is Executive Director of the Cambridge Historical Society and one of the voices on the podcast Museum People. She also runs Joyful Museums, a website and project committed to “inspiring positive workplace culture.” As museum workers and students, we all know the …
MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER
AWARD CATEGORIES:
$200 for best high school student poster
$300 for best undergraduate student poster
$400 for best graduate student poster
ELIGIBILITY:
High school students and currently enrolled full or part-time undergraduate and graduate students
REQUIREMENTS:
The poster abstract is due May 1st by 5:00p.m. and the final poster must be submitted no later than September 26, 2018 at 8:00a.m. Please email your poster abstract to Ashley Bissonnette at abissonnette@pequotmuseum.org and include “FOC Student Poster” in your subject line. Poster topics must include new perspectives regarding battle field archaeology or conflict studies.
FOR MORE INFORMATION about the award, how to apply, evaluation criteria, requirements and
your research please contact Ashley Bissonnette at abissonnette@pequotmuseum.org. Students
are welcome to use research materials at the museum upon appointment. For conference details
and registration, please go to http://www.pequotmuseum.org/FieldsOfConflict.aspx
Conference:
26-30 SEPTEMBER 2018
MASHANTUCKET PEQUOT MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER
10TH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL