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Working w People in Museums
Recruit. Retain. Reflect
Monica O. Montgomery, Strategic Director
Museum Hue @museumhueMembership & Social Media Lead Organizer Museum Workers Speak @museumworkers
Including thought leadership from:Ravon Ruffin, M.A. Candidate, American Studies, The
George Washington University/Brown Girls Museum Blog
"We continue to struggle with issues of inclusion, diversity, and equity in the nonprofit arts and culture sector because
our society continues to struggle with them.“ – Carlton Turner Alternate ROOTS
Breaking Boundaries
What does collective power in museum practice mean?
Learning to build grassroots alliances and initiatives centering diverse workers and groups in critical reflection, discussion & actions.
How are internal audiences being given agency, autonomy to pursue skills and career attainment within institutions?
What are non-traditional ways diverse culture workers are inserting themselves into museum practice and shifting conversations?
How museums creating spaces for museum workers to have a voice beyond the approved channels? Is co authorship of institutional narratives possible?
Who Speaks for Whom
The Museum sector is slowly starting to share authority, inviting audiences to co-curate public programs, and
collaborate in real time.
But internally there is room for improvement1)Increase the exchange of ideas2)Take corrective action on inequities3)Gain dynamic insight into workers desire to explore the personal, political and professional on their own terms. 4) Promote diverse perspectives & experiences and people!
Radical Blogging
Students are refining their pedagogy and deepening their practice
through blogging, affording them opportunities to pilot ideas, critique policies, advocate for the arts and
advance as thought leaders.
Intersections
Dialogue to Action
Emerging Museum professionals and graduate students have birthed a
movement during a recent national AAM conference, chartering
continuing ‘rogue’ discussions around parity, equity and labor to
advance social and economic justice in the sector.
The Movement evolved into Museum Workers Speak
Museum Workers Speak#MuseumWorkersSpe
ak is a collective of activist museum
workers interrogating the relationship
between museums’ stated commitments to social value and their
internal labor practices.
It is an action-oriented platform for social
change at the intersection of labor,
access, and inclusion.
Origin Story
Breaking Barriers: Acknowledge the Relationship between Social Justice +
Museum Labor
Museum Workers Speak Rogue Session 2015 AAM Annual Meeting
April 28, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum Hue
Museum Hue Mission & Vision
Mission MuseumHue advances the visibility
& diversity of people of color in arts, culture, creative careers &
museums.
VisionMuseum Hue, an organization that works to increase diversity in patrons, professionals, and cultural producers in the creative economy, recognizes the absence of diversity and inclusion in cultural enclaves. We use our presence and voice to counter this reality, foster agency, and write new narratives for people of color in culture.
We hold space for People of Color, inviting them into museums as patrons, professionals, stakeholders &
boards
Museum Hue Testimonials
Create Space for Challenging Conversations
The Revolution will be Tweeted
• Social media is democratizing the flow of ideas, while challenging conservatism & conventions.
• Tweetchats have emerged as a touchstone for equitable mass communication, providing a rapid feedback loop and wider audience segment that enjoys challenging hierarchical ways of knowing.
Engage Open Forums
Gaging the Divide
Remapping Community
What’s to gain In the movement to re-imagine the museums, intersectionality is often overlooked, however, community engagement, labor & careers, social media, diversity, inclusion, access and academia have become topics of importance and factors of influence in our changing field.
Create more equitable exchanges to avoid the echo chamber of ideas
Enrich community among audiences and museum professionals
Partnering at AAM - Collaboration is Key
Brown Girls Museum Blog * Museum Workers Speak * Incluseum Visitors of Color #MuseumsRespondToFerguson * Empathetic
Museum * Museum Hue
Gameplan:What are the three small things you’ll do in service of
turning the social justice lens inward within your organizations to empower people working in museums?
#MuseumWorkersSpeak #MuseumHue
Stand In Solidarity with Us