Dimensions of Curation

Ann Rowson Love is Associate Professor and Director of the MA/PhD program Museum Education & Visitor-Centered Curation in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. She has more than 30 years of experience as a museum educator, curator, administrator, and scholar in art museums. She presents and publishes widely on collaborative curation, art museum interpretation, visitor studies, and feminist systems thinking. Her co-edited books include Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums and Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Curators Committee (CurCom) Professional Network of the American Alliance of Museums. Pat Villeneuve is Professor and Director of Arts Administration in the Florida State University Department of Art Education and a 2021 Fulbright scholar to Belgium. She has had lengthy careers in museums and academe and has published and presented extensively on art museum education, edu-curation, visitor-centered exhibitions, paradigmatic change, and the Dimensions of Curation model. Pat developed the graduate program (MA and Ph.D.) in edu-curation at Florida State University and published Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums in 2017 with Ann Rowson Love. She keynoted the ICOM International Committee for Education and Cultural Action conference in Leuven, Belgium, in 2021.

A must-read publication for museum professionals and advocates, Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices offers a critical and dynamic approach to the assessment of curatorial practice. Villeneuve and Love demonstrate a unique understanding of the nuanced relationships that drive and govern cultural institutions. Rather than presenting a one-size-fits-all narrative, featured essays – from an impressively diverse range of practitioners, scholars, and emerging professionals – illustrate the variety of institutional and communal considerations shaping exhibition development in the twenty first century.

• Preface: Ann Rowson Love and Pat VilleneuveAcknowledgments Part IChapter 1: The Dimensions of Curation Competing Values Model, Pat Villeneuve and Ann Rowson LovePart II: Two Dimensions: Traditional, Exclusive, Sympathetic, and Inclusive QuadrantsTraditional(Object (x) + Lone Creative (y) = Traditional)Chapter 2: Queering the Museum: From a Traditional Model Towards a More Inclusive Practice Kara FedjeChapter 3: Using Traditional Practice to Review the Chinese National Art Exhibition Zida WangExclusive(Object (x) + Collaborative (y) = Exclusive)Chapter 4: Iterations of Curating with Matthew Ritchie: Working Collaboratively During the COVID-19 pandemic Stefanie Dlugosz-ActonChapter 5: The Artist is No Longer Present: Reconsidering Cross-Border Exhibition Curating in the Post Pandemic Era Ting ZhangSympathetic(Audience (x) + Lone Creative (y) = Sympathetic)Chapter 6: A Shared Body – Re-envisioning Curatorial Collaboration in an Academic Art Museum Annie Booth and Meredith Lynn, Chapter 7:Ally is a Verb: Adopting a Sympathetic Curatorial Practice to Build Advocacy and Community Within a Teaching Museum Alexia LobainaInclusive (Audience (x) + Collaborative (y) = Inclusive)Chapter 8: Art Connects Jennifer Jankauskas and Laura Ashley N. Bocquin,Chapter 9: Responsive, Relational, and Disruptive: A Case Study in Community-Based CurationMarianna Pegno, Christine Brindza, Patricia Lannes, and Cecilia GaribayPart III: Three Dimensions: Exhibitions that ___ Disseminate (Object (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Democratization of Culture (z) = Disseminate)Chapter 10: Traditional Practice that Disseminates: Native Brazil/Alien BrazilPeter AertsChapter 11: Something’s Off: Reconsidering Traditional Practice Michelle SunsetDiscern(Object (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Cultural Democracy (z) = Discern)Chapter 12: Discerning the Cryosphere: Humans and Climate in Art from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Elizabeth NogradyChapter 13: Discerning with a Good Voice: Hówašte at The Heritage Center Ashley Pourier and Audrey Jacobs Enrich(Object (x) + Collaborative (y) + Democratization of Culture (z) = Enrich)Chapter 14: Not Just Dissemination, an Enriched Experience: Ming Dynasty Costume Exhibition Xiaonan Jiang and Xuejing DaiChapter 15: SKIN, a Multisensory Art Exhibition for Children Aged 8+ and Their Families Stefanie Metsemaker and Gerd DierckxAmplify(Object (x) + Collaborative (y) = Cultural Democracy (z) = Amplify)Chapter 16: Challenging Romaphobia: The Case of a Romanian Carnival Mask at Mucem Julia Ferloni and Emilie SitziaChapter 17: Lock & Key Creative Expression Lab: A Curated Space During the Pandemic Ashley Hartman and Melanie RosatoMediate(Audience (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Democratization of Culture = Mediate)Chapter 18: The Same Four Walls: Inspiration and Reflection During a Global PandemicLesley MarchessaultChapter 19: SCREEN IT: Mediation-Driven Inclusive Approach to Art, Technology, and Audiences Pieter Jan ValgaerenInspire(Audience (x) + Lone Creative (y) + Cultural Democracy (z) = Inspire)Chapter 20: The Boneyard: Inspiring through In-Gallery Artist Demonstrations Courtney Taylor, Andy Shaw, and Grant BenoitChapter 21: There is No Planet B! An Audience Participation Project Meant to Inspire Aline Van NereauxEmpowerAudience (x) + Collaborative (y) + Democratization of Culture (z) = Empower)Chapter 22: EmPOWER: Learning from our Youngest Community Members at the Clyfford Still Museum Nicole Cromartie and Bailey H. PlaczekChapter 23: Anybody Home? Roselyne Francken and Tammy WilleAct(Audience (x) + Collaborative (y) + Cultural Democracy (z) = Act)Chapter 24: Collaborative Reach of a Site-Specific Exhibition that Addresses School Segregation Katie Fuller and Patricia O’RourkeChapter 25: Boundless Hospitality: M From a Different Perspective Sofie VermeirenPart IV: Curatorial Change and ToolsChapter 26: One Museum, Three Dimensions of Curation: A Script Jay Boda, Charlie Farrell, Madison Grigsby, Anneliese HardmanChapter 27: You Say You Want a Revolution: Empowering the Edu-Curator Emily Dellheim,Chapter 28: M Leuven: A Holistic Approach in Exhibition MakingPeter Carpreau and Sofie VermeirenChapter 29: Inclusive Curatorial Practice Lynette A. ZimmermanChapter 30: Toward an Interactive Model of Competing Values: From Visualization to Toolkit Morgan Joseph HamiltonChapter 31: Dimensions of Education: Adapting the Curatorial Model for Museum Education Audrey Jacobs and Ashley WilliamsAbout the Contributors