In "Curating as Praxis: Shattering the Myth of Neutrality," cultural organizer La Tanya S. Autry discusses dismantling oppressive forces through applying knowledge to real world conditions in museums. She highlights various curatorial strategies she has implemented to disrupt institutional violence and build care for those most harmed. Autry also indicates a range of approaches that students to museum professionals can engage to enact structural change.
This talk is presented with additional support from the Middlebury College Department of American Studies and the Committee on the Arts.
La Tanya S. Autry, cultural organizer and independent curator, has exercised her liberatory curatorial praxis through developing exhibitions and programming in institutional spaces, such as Yale University Art Gallery, moCa Cleveland, Artspace New Haven, and non-institutional collaborative freedom projects, including the Social Justice & Museums Resource List, The Art of Black Dissent, Museums Are Not Neutral, and the Black Liberation Center. La Tanya, who is completing her PhD in art history at University of Delaware, is examining the interplay of race, representation, memory, and public space in her dissertation The Crossroads of Commemoration: Lynching Landscapes in America.
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The “Elephant in the Room” lecture series is presented with support from Vermont Humanities.
