Activation & Engagement I
INTERPRETATION, CURATION, MISSION
Objectives & Focus:
In continuation of the rich dialogue engendered by the Materializing Race "unconference" in August 2020, and in response to participant feedback and suggestions, this virtual roundtable provides a platform for critical discussions within museums and public history settings, highlighting early American objects (1450 to 1830).
Hear curators and scholars from Canada, Mexico, the UK, and the US discuss objects, race, and identity with a particular focus on interpretation, curation, and mission.
This free event is the first in a two-part series focused on bringing historical issues of race and identity to the forefront of museum and historic site programming and the public humanities more broadly.
We would like to thank the Society of Winterthur Fellows for their generous sponsorship of this event.
Ticketing Closed
DATE & FORMAT
Roundtable Date & Time:
Saturday, Sept. 26,2020, 1:00-3:00PM EST
Virtual Format:
This roundtable will take place via Zoom. Due to privacy and security concerns, the session will not be recorded.
Panel One presentations will be 10 min. each with 15 min. Q&A at the conclusion of the presentations.
Panel Two discussion will last 55 min. following a 5 min. break between panels.
PANEL ONE: Objects in Focus
Date: Saturday, September 26,2020
Time: 1:00-2:00PM EST
Panel Moderator:
Philippe Halbert
Yale University
The ‘Ownership Bracelet’: False Assumptions, Insurgent Histories, and the Technology of Captivity
Joseph Yannielli (Aston University)
Christine Whyte (University of Glasgow)
Extracting Presence
Brittany Luberda
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Whose Chair? Reframing Ownership within Mount Vernon's Decorative Arts Collection
Jessie MacLeod
George Washington's Mount Vernon/The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
An Ecuadorian Virgin in California: the Case of the Cantor Arts Center’s Virgin of Quito
Kate Holohan
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
PANEL TWO: Curatorial Roundtable
Panel Two Moderator:
Philippe Halbert
Yale University
Mayela Flores Enríquez
PhD Candidate
Universidad Iberoamericana (formerly at Museo Franz Mayer)
Michael Galban
Curator
Seneca Art and Culture Center, Ganondagan State Historic Site
Jean-François Lozier
Curator of French North American History
Canadian Museum of History
Jorge Rivas Pérez
Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art
Denver Art Museum
Date: Saturday, September 26,2020
Time: 2:15-3:00PM EST
Portrait of Major John Norton as Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen (detail)
Date: c.1805
Place: England
Maker: Mather Brown
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Yale Center for British Art
Accession No.: YCBA/lido-TMS-62228