Want to dig a little deeper?
Below you’ll find links to readily available articles, suggestions for books, podcasts, event pages and organizations to engage with, plus various other materials that can help us continue to unpack the big questions that we are asking in Forms of Reparations: The Museum & Restorative Justice.
This list is by no means exhaustive and will grow over the next few months. Have a suggestion for something that should be added? Let us know about it!
California State University, Long Beach in the context of this conversation:
American MONUMENT
lauren woods
Opening Remarks
lauren woods, UAM, September, 2018
After a Director Is Fired and a Work of Art Pause, We Must Demand Social Justice
Nizan Shaked, Hyperallergic, October 2018
Open Letter: CSULB School of Art Concerned Students of Color and Allies
October 2018
Open Letter: Melissa Raybon
October 2018
School of Art Response to Events Surrounding American MONUMENT and the Dismissal of Kimberli Meyer
American Monument
Andrea A. Guerrero, Artillery Magazine, April 2019
Notes on a Scandal: Interview with Kimberli Meyer, Former Director of Long Beach’s University Art Museum
Mimi Zeiger, Pin-up Magazine
CSULB is located on the sacred site of Puvungna. We acknowledge that we are on the land of the Tongva/Gabrieleño and the Acjachemen/Juaneño Nations who have lived and continue to live here. We recognize the Tongva/Acjachemen Nations and their spiritual connection as the first stewards and the traditional caretakers of this land. We thank them for their strength, perseverance and resistance.
Puvungna & CSULB
An overview of the sacred land that CSULB occupies today.
Ceremony memorializes reburial of indigenous people’s remains at Cal State Long Beach
Press-Telegram, Andrew Edwards, September 22, 2016
Dumping of construction dirt on Native American site sparks protests at CSULB
Long Beach Post, Jeremiah Dobruck, September 27, 2019
CSULB Land and Territorial Acknowledgment
By Faculty, American Indian Studies, Summer 2020
From here, there, and anywhere else:
Museums are Not Neutral with Movement Co-Founders La Tanya S. Autry and Mike Murawski
Monument Lab, May 2020
What Can We Learn From Institutional Critique?
Aruna D’Souza, Art In America, October 2019
Museums Are Never Neutral
Laura Raicovich, Frieze, March 2020
Decolonization and its Discontents
Museuopunks, Episode 38, AAM, 2019
Decolonising ‘decolonisation’ with Mphahlele
Tshepo Madlingozi, New Frame, 2018
Death To Museums
Monthly virtual dialogue series.
Reimagining the Museum: Open Letters and a Decolonial Framework
Hammer Museum, virtual program, July 2020
Facing Racism: Art & Action
La Tanya S Autry, Blanton Museum of Art, 2018
Proposal for a Museum
edited by Julian Myers-Szupinska and Joanna Szupinska-Myers
‘Museums Are Not Inherently Any Way’: MTL Collective on Decolonize This Place and Reimagining Museums
Hazel Cills, Jezebel, March 2019
On the Limits of Care and Knowledge: 15 Points Museums Must Understand to Dismantle Structural Injustice
Yesomi Umolu, Artnet, June 2020
Social Justice & Museums Resource List
Initiated by La Tanya S. Autry, July 2015
Thinking Through the Museum: Difficult Knowledge in Public
Ongoing project, 2015 -
Toward A Decolonial Curatorial Practice
Chandra Frank, Discover Society, June 2015
Decolonizing Art History
Catherine Grant & Dorothy Price, January 2020
What does it mean to decolonize a museum?
American Alliance of Museums, February 2019
We Promise to Decolonize the Museum: A Critical View of Contemporary Museum Policies
Brenda Caro Cocotle, Afterall, July 2019
From institutional Critique to institutional Liberation? A Decolonial Perspective on the Crises of Contemporary Art
MTL Collective, October, Summer 2018
Decolonize The Art World
Change The Museum
Anonymous stories of unchecked racism from museum workers.
Art & Museum Transparency
A non-hierarchical group of arts and museum workers working to bring transparency to the field.
Text any city name to this phone number & it will tell you what territory you are in.
1-907-312-5085
Decolonize The Art World with Yaa Addae
Art History Babes Podcast, Episode 157, August 2020
Land of the Lost: MTL Collective talks with Jasbir K Paur about decolonization.
Artforum, Summer 2018
CCLI National Landscape Study: The State of DEAI Practices in Museums
Cecilia Garibay and Jeanne Marie Olson, 2020
What Should a Museum Look Like in 2020?
Kimberly Drew, Vanity Fair, August 24, 2020
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