Critical Race Museology (CRM)

examines how museums and galleries are implicated in the production of race and racism, analyzing racialized collections and exhibitionary spaces via such lenses as gender, sexuality, class, colonialism, and nationalism, and addresses intersecting legacies of settler colonialism and slavery. CRM applies critical race theory to permanent exhibitions in two major Canadian museums , using workshops and advocacy to change exclusionary institutional practices and habits. Sustained and fairly-compensated collaboration with a diverse group of local Black cultural workers, artists, and university students will produce exhibitions that combat anti-Black racism and promote nuanced understandings of communities and national cultures.

(Partners: Royal Ontario Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).

projects

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Visualizing White Supremacy in Institutions
Visualizing White Supremacy in Institutions

TTTM Exhibitions
TTTM Exhibitions
ROM Africa Gallery Reinstallation
ROM Africa Gallery Reinstallation

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) – Canada’s largest encyclopedic museum – has a history of complex and fraught relationships with communities linked to its collections. Over the course of the TTTM project, we will embark on a reinstallation of the permanent Africa gallery through an anti-racist process grounded in fairly compensated community co-creation and co-curation.

Exhibiting Theory Book Series
Exhibiting Theory Book Series

Exhibiting Theory is a multi-lingual, open-access book series presenting humanities and social science theory and method relevant for and generated from museum interventions, performances, and curatorial experiments developed in partnerships linking academia with the museum and heritage sector.

Global Art Histories as Method
Global Art Histories as Method

In collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Global Art Histories Pedagogy (GAHP) project examines how conceptualizing digital content for museum apps intended for the public helps researchers to address implicit biases and systemic issues early in the research design of art-historical projects.