Queering the Art Museum: How did we get here?
Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:30pm
Queering the Art Museum explores the complex methodologies for museums to address and engage queer culture in a non tangential manner. Symposium performances, lectures, forums, and workshops will provide both speakers and attendees an opportunity to engage with these themes within an formal and informal context.
With Special guests Jonathan D. Katz & Rock Hushka.
Queering the Art Museum explores the complex methodologies for museums to address and engage queer culture in a non tangential manner. Symposium performances, lectures, forums, and workshops will provide both speakers and attendees an opportunity to engage with these themes within an formal and informal context.
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Reception with the Emerging Museum Professionals and symposiums
attendees hosted at the Henry Art Gallery
6:30 – 8:30 PM
How did we get here?
Current practices in queer engagement and exhibiting in Art Museums at the Henry Art Gallery
Jonathan D. Katz: Co-curator of Hide/Seek Difference and Desire in American Portraiture and Art, AIDS, America. Chair, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, SUNY, Buffalo NY
Rock Hushka: Co curator of Art, AIDS, America and Director of Curatorial
Administration at the Tacoma Art Museum.
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