As Museums Desperately Try to Diversify Their Collections, They Now Face Another Problem: How to Pay for It in a Financial Crisis
Some initiatives implemented prior to the pandemic have proved surprisingly resilient, while others are under major stress.
February 11, 2021
A work by Shinique Smith at the Baltimore Museum of Art on January 15, 2020. Photo by Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images.
In recent years, the public has increasingly scrutinized museum collections that disproportionately represent dead white male artists a process that was accelerated radically in 2020 after a groundswell of support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
“With the killing of George Floyd, there was a new urgency around these issues,” Sasha Suda, director of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, tells Artnet News.
The icy continent has historically been a place for men. First “discovered” in 1820, Antarctica would not be visited by a woman for well over a century.
In 1935, Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen, a whaler’s wife, became the first woman to do so, some 24 years after her compatriot Roald Amundsen had trekked all the way to the South Pole.
It wasn’t until the 1950s that women were finally allowed to participate in Antarctic science.
How had Antarctica come to be so dominated by men? Where were all the women?
Among the group were 77 women working in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM), who took part in a three-week leadership program. As part of our study of this program, Meredith travelled with the group to Antarctica to gather women’s first-hand accounts of their experiences.
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There is no more powerful force than a people steeped in their history.
No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the Black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who created Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in February 1926.
Woodson was the second Black American to receive a Ph.D. in history
from Harvardâfollowing W.E.B. Du Bois by a few years. To Woodson, the
Black experience was too important simply to be left to a small group of academics. Woodson believed that his role was to use Black history and
Blind River trio that s been entertaining the north shore for decades drops its first album
A group of women from Blind river who have been playing and performing together for decades have finally launched their first album.
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Group s music is a fusion of folk, country and pop, and they rehearse around their kitchen table
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Posted: Jan 24, 2021 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 24
Lois Jones, Debbie Rivard and Patty Dunlop are members of Blind River group Women in Song. They recently released their first album.(Women in Song/Facebook)
Author of the article: Kelly James
Publishing date: Jan 07, 2021 • January 7, 2021 • 4 minute read • Photo supplied Women in Song, composed of Debbie Rivard, Lois Jones and Patty Dunlop, are about to release their first album, entitled ‘Life of a Woman’. The CD features 13 original tracks covering a wide range of musical genres by the popular local trio.
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They are treasured in Blind River and along the North Shore for their marvellous voices, delicious harmonies and generous spirit. Now, Women in Song are set to release their first album, entitled ‘Life of a Woman’. For more than 20 years, Lois Jones, Debbie Rivard and Patty Dunlop have melded their golden voices together to produce the unique sound that is instantly identifiable to their legions of fans. They have played innumerable concerts all along the North Shore, often lending their talents in support of charitable causes.