Revolutionary Little Compton: The Semiquincentary at a Local History Museum
It’s the summer of the semiquincentenial, and no self-respecting historical organization can escape without some acknowledgement of the American Revolution.
Exhibits
Education, Exhibits, Little Compton Historical Society, Museums, Public humanities
Teaching curatorial work and developing an exhibition, at the same time
The semester is over and the exhibit is open, on time and on budget, and it’s been well-received. I think
Curation, Exhibits, Museums
Difficult and Different Histories
[Here’s the short talk I gave at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Study of Guns and Society workshop on Theories,
Curation, Exhibits, Museums, teaching
Exhibition How-to Videos
Remote teaching this fall meant figuring how to reduce in-class lectures, and so I recorded some of the talks I
Little Compton Landscape Stories
Last year (summer 2019) the Little Compton Historical Society took on the topic of landscapes. (Each year the organization focuses
Collections, Exhibits, Museums
New essay: Exhibiting Absence
I’ve posted to Medium a new essay, on the challenges (and possibilities!) of exhibiting things museums don’t actually have. Sometimes,
Curation, Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities, teaching
“Collecting and Collections” course & stamp exhibit
Head over to the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities blog for a post Sarah Dylla and I wrote about
Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Technology, Uncategorized
Design Objects in Museums
[my talk to the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, RISD, March 2015] The call for papers placed this conference in the context of RISD’s
AMST2650, Criticism, Exhibits, Museums, Public humanities
Considering the 9/11 Memorial Museum: One visit, three ways
(some advice I gave my students before our visit last week, updated after the visit) When you visit the museum—when
Collections, Curation, Education, Exhibits, Museums, teaching
A class about collections
We’re halfway through the semester, and my collections class is deep into the stamp exhibition project. I’m teaching a course titled
