INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY IN MUSEUMS: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY IN MUSEUMS: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

MODERATOR: Brooke Minto ’01, Executive Director, Zeitz MOCAA Foundation USA, and Director of Institutional Advancement, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Maxwell L Anderson ’77, President, Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol ’13, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Ellen Tani ’05, Assistant Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Symposium | The New Now: Art, Museums, and the Future
October 25 and 26, 2019
A key mission of the Hood Museum of Art (and its predecessors, the Dartmouth College Museum and the Dartmouth College Galleries and Collections) has been to train undergraduate interns in the ins and outs of the museum profession. Not surprisingly, many of its former interns, along with Dartmouth anthropology, art history, classics, and studio art majors and minors, have gone on to work in this rewarding and ever-changing field. In celebration of Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary and the reopening of the Hood Museum in its new renovated and expanded building, the museum showcased alumni who have gone on to careers in museums with a symposium titled The New Now: Art, Museums, and the Future. In choosing the topics for these panels, we have focused on themes that highlight the issues faced by many museum professionals today: Who Owns the Past and What Role Do Museums Play?; Curators and Conservators Collaborate; Inclusion and Diversity in Museums: What Does That Mean?; Academic Museums and Their Futures; and Curatorial Practice: Futures/Directions.

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