These days, Museum Drip is in the business of considering how to make museums, and specifically art museums, more welcoming to non-art-expert audiences. Sometimes, things that would make museums more welcoming to one group of people will negatively impact another group. Dealing with deeply entrenched docent programs is one of those things. I’ve been writing…
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In the spirit of the crisp back-to-school air, let’s talk about education in the art museum today. If you’re already an art museum educator, you’re probably aware that there is already a whole blog called Art Museum Teaching. It’s a great space for in-depth analysis of some of the points that I want to raise…
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It’s September! And while I have no idea how many museums will be welcoming students into their physical spaces as we enter the second fall season of the Covid-19 pandemic, the earlier sunsets and PSL frenzy still means that museum educators are ramping up for the school season. Even if students aren’t getting the thrill…
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There it is, right in the title. The third edition of the Blockbusters series is likely the most well-known of the museums in the movies category – the Indiana Jones shit! This is what you’ve been waiting for, I know. Reminder: I have never seen Night at the Museum, and I never will. The Indiana…
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Over the last year this blog has set the stage of a lot of (certainly not all of) the whys of how museums become alienating. Now that I’m able to safely visit museums in-person again, I can start to shout out museums that are actively working to be welcoming. Here are 5 of the things…
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Happy first birthday to Museum Drip!! This is also the first post I’m writing on my new, functioning laptop and WOW. I feel like I could actually be successful one day now that I have the proper tools. Once I can afford to pay this bad boy off, it’s over for you bitches. (Little museum…
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It’s summer and the movies are rollin into the theaters. I’m dying to go to a movie theater again, but it’s a little bit of a trickier transition than going back to an art museum where, even if you’re at a packed blockbuster show, the person next to you is unlikely to be shoveling popcorn…
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In our last post about internships, the topic was the ways in which internships would not be saved merely by paying interns. I wanted to get into some good debates about the value of internships, the value interns bring to organizations, why paying wasn’t the only thing that would make a difference, since plenty of…
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Throughout the month, I’ve been sharing Black artists on the Museum Drip Instagram to celebrate Black abundance and talent. This led to consider how many incredible Black artists there were to spotlight, and how many of the contemporary artists and art accounts I follow were doing the same thing, sharing tons of names, some familiar,…
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I recently read an article about how companies are scrambling to find token Black creatives. The article concerns artist Shantell Martin. Martin is a rising contemporary darling thanks to her bold, dynamic murals and the potential of her work to be used in collaboration across different sectors, from corporations to the performing arts. Martin was…
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