Curating With Care: Exhibiting and Programming Sensitive Subject Matter in Galleries and Museums
iMPACTS, , , and are hosting a professional development workshop, titled "Curating With Care",for curators, exhibition managers, programmers, academics, and other cultural professionals to learn and share best practices for exhibiting and programming artistic works with sensitive subject matter and themes.
Participants will obtain a greater understanding of curating sensitive materials to a broad public; develop and discuss the best practices for developing programming centered around artwork that covers sensitive and triggering topics; develop guidelines from workshop discussion to inform future policies for art gallery and museums; and gain insight on the ethics of sensitive subject matter in institutions’ collections.
The event includes the following speakers and guests:
- Dr. Shaheen Shariff, James ۲ݮƵ Professor, Director of iMPACTS
- Zainub Verjee, Executive Director, Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries (GOG)
- Debra Sloan, Craft Council of BC
- Raine McKay, Executive Director, Craft Council of BC; Curator, Walking Alongside Trauma Project
- Dawn Owen, Curator, Guelph Museums
- Amy Kipp, Art Not Shame; PhD Candidate, Social Practice and Transformational Change, University of Guelph
- Melanie Schambach, Latinx social artist, community-based creator, artivist, and arts facilitation trainer; Principal Artist for “Art in Hard Times” and “Art in a Just Recovery” with Art Not Shame
The event will be hybrid online and in person at the . More information is available on .To register for this event,