Museums have many facets, but one of their key functions is to serve as repositories for histories, cultures, and information. In more recent years, our field has begun to re-evaluate the specific stories museums have collected, and more importantly, amplify those that have been excluded. On February 1st we explored diversifying our data with Frances Lloyd-Baynes, Head of Collections Information Management at Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Additional Resources:
AAMC Artist Demographics Consortium
Judith Pineiro, Executive Director
AAMC & AAMC Foundation
judith.pineiro@artcurators.org
Slack: TMS Artists Questionnaire Group
Jaye Melino, MoMA (Host)
jaye_melino@moma.org
"Decolonizing Digital Preservation", Monica Montgomery, Founder of Museum Hue
Resources:
"Documenting Diversity: How should museums identify art and artists?" Frances Lloyd-Baynes, March 27, 2019.
Data Feminism. Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020
Digital Transgender Archives https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/
Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control, Jane Sandberg, ed. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2019
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000
Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities. Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, How We Collect Data Determines Whose Voice Is Heard (2020) https://www.schusterman.org/blogs/rella-kaplowitz/how-we-collect-data-determines-whose-voice-is-heard
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