This week over on Activehistory.ca we are sharing the Material Culture Theme week I had the joy of editing. This week brings together folks who work with material culture both inside and outside academia. The week is filled with posts on textiles, learning with material culture, family connections to making, and cultural meaning attached to … Continue reading Material Culture Theme Week
This week Carly Ciufo and I launched the ActiveHistory.ca museum theme week. This week was designed to encourage conversation between museum professionals and historians, while highlighting the labour of museum professionals. It was a pleasure to work with Carly as a co-editor and we are both very please with how the week turned out. A … Continue reading Active History Museum Theme
My latest post can be read over at Activehistory.ca. The post, "Interpretation, Interaction, and Critique at House Museums," discusses using Anarchist Tags in the public history classroom as a way to teach critical thinking skills about heritage spaces and allow students to interact with heritage sites in a new way. Using the tags was a … Continue reading Interpretation, Interaction, and Critique at House Museums
Sophia Reuss recently wrote an article on how "Indigenous people want museums to heed TRC's calls to action: Cultural institutions have an important role to play in Canada's reconciliation process." Reuss' piece looks at the role museums and archives play in caring for and presenting materials relating to Indigenous communities and the need to the … Continue reading Indigenous people want museums to heed TRC’s calls to action
One of my favourite parts of every NCPH conference is the range of walking tours, museum visits, and behind the scenes tours to local heritage sites that are setup as part of the conference. This year I participated in a tour of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. This session included a … Continue reading Indy Behind the Scenes: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Walking Tour
I've written a few times in the past about visiting the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre (locally known as the Bushplane Museum) for non-heritage events, namely for musical performances and a community craft show. In both cases the admission to the Bushplane was either free or the proceeds when to the performing artist. Those events were … Continue reading The Bushplane Revisited: A Parent’s Perspective
The Indigenous Collections Symposium: Promising Practices, Challenging Issues and Changing the System is an initiative through the Ontario Museum Association, Woodland Cultural Centre, and the Indigenous Knowledge Centre at the Six Nations Polytechnic. The Symposium is going to be held March 23-24, 2017 in Brantford, Ontario. In-person registration for the event is sold out however … Continue reading Indigenous Collections Symposium Webinar
Recently I've been working on a fairly large archival cleanup project. This project involves overhauling the arrangement of a collection, updating physical processing to meet our internal standards, and improving metadata online to improve accessibility of the material. This type of cleanup work can be hugely time consuming and it often reminds me of diving … Continue reading The Cleanup Rabbit Hole
If you follow me on Twitter you might have seen some of my recent thoughts on grant dependency, percarity, and the impacts on long term planning. Basically, I've been mulling over the implications of grant dependency on heritage labour and our professional communities. These thoughts we in part inspired a conversation I had recently that … Continue reading Grant Writing, Precarity and Invisible Labour
The second museum I decided to visit while in Toronto was the Textile Museum of Canada (TMC). If you've been following this blog for awhile you know I get really exited about seeing textile arts in mainstream museum spaces - so visiting the TMC seemed like a logical way to build on that love. The … Continue reading Material Voices at the Textile Museum of Canada
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