wrennette

since i'm working from home today i decided to clean out the email folders where some of my professional listservs get autofiltered, and as a result ended up also back-reading on some of the museum blogs i try (and mostly fail) to keep up on. but i did find some things i want to keep the links to, and while i've saved them at my pinboard, i also wanted to put them here. the descriptions are mostly those the sources have used for themselves.

• passenger pigeon manifesto: A call to public galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and their funders to liberate our cultural heritage that has already been digitised. Illustrated with the cautionary tales of extinct species and our lack of access to what remains of them.
• artwork archive covid-19 resources for artists: Artwork Archive continues to gather and create resources in response to this global pandemic. Our business is devoted to supporting artists, and at this time, it is even more crucial to share those opportunities to help artists maintain their businesses along with their physical and mental well-being
• museums as a pink-collar profession: the consequences and how to address them, a whitepaper by gender equity movement in museums (gemm)
• art beyond quarentine: In this space, Pamela Allara, Susan Platt, and Mark Auslander hope to share art work that speaks to the COVID-19 induced crisis, and to engage in reflections and conversation on the importance of art, cultural production, and social responsibility in our current strange and disorienting historical moment. We share the intuition that although we may be at the moment "locked down," "sheltering in place," or otherwise separated from one another physically, we remain united in our sense that art and aesthetic practice (including the work of curatorship and cultural interpretation) have the capacity to continue to lift each of us beyond the individuating conditions of confinement, to enter into and to explore broader terrains of community and social connectedness. Significant art, past and present, holds up vital mirrors to ourselves, together and apart, forcing us to confront difficult questions and challenging us to find new and creative pathways through uncharted terrains. Together, in conversation with artists and others, we look forward to exploring what lies just over an increasingly uncertain horizon.