Learning from Audience: Empowering Student Voice in Academic Museums


How do students drive practice and how should museums respond? These are timely questions as students urge for more diversity and inclusion, and ask how museums can change. This workshop will provide case studies from three different Chicago academic museums and include perspectives from undergraduate and graduate students.

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Panelists:
LORELEI M STEWART,University of Illinois at Chicago - loreleiloo@gmail.com , Emily Kathryn Edwards,Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago - emily.kathryn.edwards@gmail.com and Kristin Taylor,Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College - ktaylor@colum.edu
Discussants:
Leslie Wilson,University of Chicago - lmwilson@uchicago.edu and Berit Ness,Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago - bness@uchicago.edu