"Disabled Museum Visitors: Part of Your General Public," 23:09, 3/4" U-matic (2 copies)
Container:
Box 2 of 2
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Restrictions:
Restrictions pertaining to the use of these materials may apply (based on contracts/copyright). Access restrictions may also apply if viewing/listening copies are not currently available. Viewing/listening copies can be made for a fee. Contact reference staff for details.
2030 Vision: Anticipating the Needs and Expectations of Museum Visitors of the Future (by Office of Policy and Analysis [OP&A]), July 2007
Container:
Box 1 of 5
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Rights:
Restricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2029; Transferring office; 11/19/02 memorandum, Johnstone to Brown; Contact reference staff for details.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 15-096, Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Under Secretary for Finance and Administration, Administrative Records
Actor, poet and educator Douglas Johnson led children in poetry reading, song, and dance. Johnson taught the meaning of the poems to the children.
Workshop. Related to exhibition 'Whose Art is it, Anyway?: The Arts in Public Places.' Dated 19900723.
Biographical / Historical:
'Whose Art is it, Anyway?: The Arts in Public Places' encouraged museum visitors to explore the role of visual and performing arts in their community. The exhibition was held at the Anacostia Museum from July 15, 1990 to September 16, 1990, and included murals and sculptures viewed in Washington, D.C. and also encompassed personal statements such as hairstyles, clothes, and jewelry.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Artist Malkia Roberts led docent training for the exhibition 'Gathered Visions: Selected Works by African American Women Artists.' Roberts talked about docent techniques to reach museum visitors. With a slide presentation, she discussed art created by Black artists, not in the exhibition. Roberts also showed her two works, which would be in the exhibition, and explained them.
Related to exhibition 'Gathered Visions: Selected Works by African American Women Artists.' Dated 19901025.
Biographical / Historical:
Gathered Visions: Selected Works by African American Women Artists' included fifteen individuals whose creative efforts reflect a multitude of experiences and universal concerns. Among the works on display were prints that comment on contemporary living, mixed-media sculptures that explore social and historical questions, and paintings that address women's issues. The exhibition presented the richness of the African American artistic traditions in the greater Washington area. It was held from November 18, 1990 to April 28, 1991 at the Anacostia Museum
Series Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
This folder contains a set of files from some of Karp's more recent presentations, starting in 2006. Only two of them became published papers of some sort. The files "cape town paper" and "MuseumFrictions.AFRICOM2006" are two slightly different
versions of Karp and Kratz's paper for the AFRICOM conference in Cape Town. The paper was based on the introductions to Museum Frictions. The file "Karp ethics of partnership talk.doc" is a presentation that Karp gave at a conference held in Cape Town organized by Emory's Institute for Developing Nations in October 2007 on research partnerships and collaborations. He likely first developed and presented it for a previous occasion at Emory since the file is dated May 2007. The file "EMEA board presentation.wpd" is from the same Cape Town conference. Karp gave a presentation to Emory's international advisory board (Europe, Middle East, Africa). The file "Skidmore Conference Notes.wpd" were for a presentation he gave during a visit around the opening of the Tang Museum at Skidmore called "Transformation in the College Museum." Some of the material in the presentation draws on other papers. The file "Chicago Conference.doc" contains the notes that Karp used for his last conference presentation, which was in June 2011 in Chicago. Kratz developed these notes and a
transcription of Karp's presentation into the paper "Collecting, Exhibiting, and Interpreting: Museums as Midwives and Mediators of Meaning," published in Museum Anthropology in 2014 as part of a special issue of papers from the symposium
"Collecting Contemporary Urban Materials for the Museum Visitor of the 22nd Century." See also files in the folder "Project and paper notes" which relate to projects Karp was thinking about and working on in his last several years. He had duplicates of several files in this folder there as well.
Collection Restrictions:
Recommendations that Karp wrote for his colleagues and students are restricted until 2061.
Access to the Ivan Karp papers requires an appointment.
Collection Citation:
Ivan Karp papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
This collection was processed with the support of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Corinne Kratz.
