Curating Scholarship:
A Workshop on the Visual Presentation of Research
Dec 5 (6-9pm), Dec 6 (9am-4pm) & Dec 7 (9am-4pm), 2024
Location: Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer
Application and email of endorsement are due Wednesday, October 16, 2024.
Visual exhibitions of research have the potential to engage publics beyond the readers of a scholarly monograph. Moving research off the page can take a variety of forms, but always requires careful curation. In this workshop, graduate student and faculty scholars will gain an understanding of the requirements of curation, of the relationship between curation and creation, and of the research potentials opened through collaboration.
Curating Scholarship will be led by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak, who will address conceptual questions of importance such as visual choices, context, display, and organizational styles. Logistical factors to be covered include planning, strategies, collaborative possibilities, and generating interest and support. Guest presenters will discuss their experience translating research into exhibition format.
After the two-day workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to meet with the curator for a 30-minute one-on-one session to discuss the exhibition potential of their own work.
Eligibility
- Currently enrolled PhD students that have reached candidacy level as of September 1, 2024.
- Faculty with an active appointment on any U-M campus as of September 1, 2024. Faculty are defined as tenure track and tenured professors, lecturers, and post-doctoral/research fellows.
Each selected participant will receive $250 in compensation for their time in attending the workshop.
Facilitator and Presenter:
Amanda Krugliak, Artist, Institute for the Humanities Curator, and Arts Administrator whose practice includes performance and conceptual experiential installations.
Presenters:
- Martha S. Jones is a prize-winning memoirist, historian, and legal scholar. She is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Her work examines the legal and cultural history of Black Americans: citizenship, voting rights, and the rights of women. Her debut memoir, The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir, will be published by Basic Books in 2025.
- Mark Dion is an American conceptual artist best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations. His work examines how prevalent ideologies and institutions influence our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, according to him, is to "go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention". Notable recent solo exhibitions and projects include Storm King Sculpture Park, 2019; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, 2017; La Brea Tar Pits; and Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin, Germany, 2024.
- Maria Eugenia Cotera is an American author, researcher, and professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She started as a researcher and writer at the Chicana Research and Learning Center in Texas. Along with filmmaker Linda Garcia Merchant, she co-founded the innovative and impactful Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, a project dedicated to preserving imperiled Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era. The collective offers a model for grassroots digital history that encourages further research into understudied aspects of the American experience, as well as the potential for exhibition strategies in physical and digital spaces to inform and engage publics.
Application and email of endorsement are due Wednesday, October 16, 2024.
Selection Criteria:
- Promise, significance, and interdisciplinary scope of the research project
- The humanities and arts content of the project
- The project’s potential contribution to public humanities scholarship
- The quality, significance, and breadth of the applicant’s prior work
- Project’s potential to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion
