Appropriate Museology with Christina Kreps

Location

Off Campus

Date & Time

October 24, 2014, 11:00 am4:00 pm

Description

Examining the theories and practices of holistic, locally-responsive and community-based museum and gallery work

In partnership with UMBC's American Studies Department and the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the MFA in Curatorial Practice at MICA presents a lecture and master class with professor Christina Kreps (University of Denver) on appropriate museological theory and practice.

Based on Kreps' extensive research on non-Western and indigenous museum models and curatorial methods, which emphasize community-based conceptualizations and techniques for interpreting, curating, disseminating, and caring for material and immaterial culture, participants will have the opportunity to engage with alternative understandings of museum and gallery work.

The afternoon master class will focus on the methodologies that are used to ensure collaborative and co-creative museum and gallery projects, bridging theory to student projects based in the Baltimore region.

For more information, please see the flyer attached.