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Italy Conservation Summer Field School: San Gemini Preservation Studies

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On January 26, 2024

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The San Gemini Preservation Studies is accepting applications for their summer field school in historic conservation. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2024.

Now in its 25th year, with alumni from over 170 colleges and universities worldwide, SGPS is dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage. They offer students the opportunity to study and travel in Italy where they acquire hands-on experience in restoration and conservation. The following sessions are available for this summer:

Session One (June 3 – 28)

  • Building Restoration – Touching the Stones Restoration of Traditional Masonry Buildings and Sketching and Analyzing Historic Buildings
    (Program includes lectures and restoration field projects*)
  • Archaeological Ceramics Restoration Analysis and Restoration of Archaeological Ceramics in Italy
    (Program includes lectures and restoration workshop*)
  • Book Bindings Restoration Introduction to the History and Craft of Bookbindings. Introduction to the Preservation and Preventive Conservation of Books
    (Program includes lectures and practical workshop*)

Session Two (July 15 – August 9)

*Field Projects:

  • Restoration of Porta Tuderte (also known as the San Giovanni City Gate) (13th century)
  • Analysis of medieval buildings in San Gemini as part of an urban study of the city
  • Restoration and conservation of artifacts from the Parco del Colosseo and Museo delle Storie di Bergamo
  • Restoration of the Historic Archives of the Commune di San Gemini
  • Archaeological research of the Roman Baths in the Ancient City of Carsulae

Short Intersession Program (June 30 – July 9) dates to be confirmed

  • Preservation Tour – Italy A ten-day trip visiting Siena, Florence and Rome,  places of cultural interest, with emphasis on the urban and historical development of each town, including specialized visits to places of interest to restorers.

SGPS is a program of the International Institute for Restoration and Preservation Studies, based in New York. An academic relationship has been established with West Virginia University that offers our students the opportunity to apply for and receive credits through the WVU Art History Department. They have established cooperation agreements with the Museo della Storie di Bergamo and the Parco del Colosseo to study and conserve artworks and archaeological objects held in their museums, as well as a collaboration with the Historic Archives of the Commune di San Gemini for SGPS participants to study and conserve archival documents.

Their courses are open to students from various disciplines, both undergraduate and graduate. All lessons are taught in English.

To learn more an apply, access the website here.

UMich Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Newsletter

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On December 8, 2023

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University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology has released their 2023 newsletter. Content from this year includes residue analysis in Oaxaca, Mexico, artifacts found in Chenque Pehuén, and the ReConnect/ReCollect open house. You can read the newsletter here as a pdf or as an e-zine. To learn more about their department, museum, and current research, follow this link to their website.

 

We The Museum: New Episode, “Museum Unions? Museum Unions!”

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On November 17, 2023

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The Podcast We The Museum, hosted by Hannah Hethmon, has a new episode entitled “Museum Unions? Museum Unions!” The description is as follows:

To paraphrase Adam Rizzo, museums won’t do the right thing by their workers just because we ask nicely. In a field rife with labor issues, museum workers are increasingly turning to unions. In this episode of We THE MUSEUM, Adam Rizzo of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Union shares their multi-year journey from hushed initial conversations to a three-week strike that was ultimately successful. He walked me through the unionization process and reflected on why unions will make this field stronger.

Listen to the new episode here!

Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways at the Spencer Museum of Art

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On October 30, 2023

In Position Announcements

The Spencer Museum of Art is currently open to applications for its position of Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways.

The Museum at the University of Kansas stewards and supports broad public engagement with a collection of more than 48,000 works of art created across a wide range of time periods, geographic locations, and cultural affiliations. The Museum seeks a Curator responsible for the collaborative stewardship, care, and accessibility of the approximately 9,300 objects that comprise the collection of Global Indigenous art. This collection encompasses historical and more contemporary artworks across mediums that came to the Museum through a variety of channels, often by people associated with the University. More recent museum purchases have expanded the collection in ways that insert Indigenous art into global dialogues about art, environment, culture, and social change. Integral to the position, the Curator of Global Indigenous Art and Lifeways will actively engage contemporary Indigenous knowledge keepers and community members to build lasting relationships and integrate their voices, perspectives, and beliefs into museum practices and programming.

For full details and to apply click the link here.

Application review begins November 3, 2023

Rutgers Art Review: Graduate Journal of Research in Art History Volume 39

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On September 27, 2023

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The Rutgers Art Review is excited to announce their publication of volume 39 of their Graduate Journal of Research in Art History, which can be accessed here. It is edited by Brittney Bailey, Jessica Mingoia, Sara Varnese, and Margo Weitzman. It includes two essays:

“Before-and-After Portraiture: Photography and Time at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School ”
By María Beatriz H. Carrión

“The Quiet Landscapes of Carrie Mae Weems’s The Louisiana Project”
By Kaila T. Schedeen

It also includes two exhibition reviews:

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color – telling (not engaging) the history of polychromy”
By Tyler Henegan

“On Duality and Juxtaposition: The de la Torre Brothers at the Cheech”
By Emma Oslé

HCDG Call for Speakers – “It’s Complicated”

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On September 18, 2023

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The HCDG is a network run out of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre that brings together a large, diverse community of people actively engaging with a vast array of topics surrounding heritage and colonialism. For the upcoming academic year (2023-2024), the HCDG invites proposals for presentations centred around the theme: “It’s Complicated”.

BUT WHAT DOES “COMPLICATED” MEAN?

The term “complicated” has often been used to dismiss or excuse action when heritage matters related to colonialism are discussed. The theme “It’s Complicated” seeks to reclaim the word as a tool for unravelling nuanced colonial issues throughout time and exploring the barriers as well as the potential avenues for engaging with them in the present.

By this call, we encourage submissions from all disciplines and professions that address colonial issues that may be characterised as “complicated” with the view to exploring their complexity.

Potential themes include but are not limited to:

  • Museum Studies and Praxis
  • Heritage Narratives and Representations
  • Institutional Policies and Practice
  • Cultural Heritage and the Law
  • Heritage Ethics

PRESENTATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The HCDG will hold one-hour online sessions from October 2023 – March 2024.

Speakers will have 20-25 minutes to give their presentations, which will then be followed by a moderated 30 minute Q&A session. Participants have the option of having their presentations recorded and published on the HCDG YouTube channel.

To submit a proposal, please send the following to hcdg.universityofcambridge@gmail.com:

  1. An abstract of maximum 250 words
  2. A bio of maximum 100 words

Application deadline: 20 AUGUST 2023 (GMT 23:59)

Applicants will be notified about the outcome of their submissions by 31 August 2023.

We The Museum – New Episodes, and Smithsonian’s Stories from Main Street

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On September 18, 2023

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New episodes of the podcast “We The Museum” by Hannah Hethmon are out! They include:

  • The First Americans Museum with Dr. heather ahtone (Director of Curatorial Affairs)
  • Hiring Icks and Fair museum Jobs with Sierra Van Ryck deGroot and Ashleigh Hibbins

Listen to We The Museum here.

Smithsonian’s Stories from Main Street is back with new episodes after a long hiatus. This podcast, from SITES’ Museum on Main Street program, is produced, written, and hosted by Hannah Hethmon, your friendly neighborhood museum podcast person.

The upcoming three episodes feature stories from their Crossroads: Change in Rural America exhibition. Educator and public historian Bobby Harley co-hosts. And stayed tuned after these episodes, as more mini-series are in the works.

Listen to Smithsonian’s Stories here.

Institute for Advanced Study: Why the Museum Matters

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On March 15, 2023

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WHITHER OUR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS?
A Conversation and Q&A with Daniel Weiss
Thursday, March 23 | 5:30 p.m.
Wolfensohn Hall 
 

Daniel H. Weiss, president and chief executive officer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a scholar of art history and former president of Lafayette College and Haverford College.

Hear him in conversation with IAS Director David Nirenberg as they discuss Weiss’s latest book, his work, and the state of culture and higher education in the world today.

Register Here

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