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Candace Greene Wins Ames Prize; Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology...
I learned great news today. My friend, colleague and collaborator Candace Greene (National Museum of Natural History) has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Michael M. Ames Prize for...
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Web Resources for Museum Job Seekers
For many years I have maintained a handout in which I list online venues of interest to those searching for museum positions. Every few years I check and update the links, usually in connection with my...
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New Beginnings: Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Today I had the privilege of beginning work as Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. I will surely write about the work of the museum extensively in the months ahead. Here I just want to...
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The Woody Guthrie Center Seeks Executive Director, Educator
The emergent Woodie Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma (one of my favorite places) is seeking to fill two key positions: (1) Executive Director/Chief Curator and (2) Educator and Public Programs...
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2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool
Sharing below information on the 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool. … The 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool introduces students to the tools and methods required to...
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Excellent Symposium Concludes 2013 Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
Many things have been happening lately–so many that keeping up with them here has been difficult. Many good things have gone unreported and some bad current events (global and national, not personal)...
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The Textile Museum | Out of Southeast Asia: Art that Sustains
While in Washington, I had a chance to visit The Textile Museum in its historical location amid the city’s embassies. I say historical because the museum is now preparing to move to the George...
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Reblogged: “Thoughts on How to Get a Museum Job” by Robert Connolly
For those seeking museum jobs or who are training and mentoring junior colleagues for such work, check out Robert Connolly’s recent post “Thoughts on How to Get a Museum Job.” Find it here:...
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IU and MMWC in Ghana
IU President McRobbie’s recent trip to South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana has proven incredibly timely for projects coming to fruition at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The IU delegation began its...
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Exhibition Opening: Operation AB – Katyn–The Destruction of the Polish Elite...
Thank you to all everyone who traveled, from near and far, to attend last night’s exhibition opening of “Operation AB – Katyn: The Destruction of the Polish Elite at the Beginning of WWII,” at the...
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Museums of Ethnography and Cultural History Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversaries...
I will say more detailed things about the Mathers Museum of World Cultures during 2013 in later posts. Here I just want to flag a few happy curiosities. Today is the last day of 2013 and 2013 marked...
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On the New Volume of Museum Anthropology Review
Museum Anthropology Review (MAR) has just published a new double issue—its first themed collection. Volume 7, number 1-2 of MAR collects papers originally presented at a January 2012 workshop titled...
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Notes on an Eastern Cherokee Gathering Basket
For me, new light was just cast on a basket in the William C. Sturtevant Collection in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. In the mail, I just...
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A Museum-Minded Guide to the 2014 American Folklore Society Meetings
Cross-posted from AFS News. Folklorists with an interest in museums are feeling quite excited about the upcoming American Folklore Society annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico (November 5-8, 2014)....
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Seeking Applicants | Museums at the Crossroads: Local Knowledge, Global...
Call for Applications (Deadline Nov. 15) Museums at the Crossroads: Local Knowledge, Global Encounters A Summer Institute of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and the School of Global and...
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AFS “Folklore and Museums Section” Founded, AFS Members (and Non-Members too)...
I am happy to note here that the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society has endorsed a proposal put forward by the Folklore and Museum Policy and Practice Working Group to establish a...
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Still/Moving: Puppets and Indonesia Lecture and Exhibition Opening
Filed under: Asia, Ethnography, Exhibitions, Mathers Museum, Museums, Puppetry
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Announcement: Dress to Express Museum Modules
An announcement posted here on behalf of Local Learning: DRESS TO EXPRESS MUSEUM MODULES In conjunction with Volume 1 of the Journal of Folklore and Education, “Dress to Express: Exploring Culture and...
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Instruments of Prayer: Musical Instruments in the Expressive Cultures of the...
Filed under: Folklore Studies, Material Culture, Museum Anthropology, Museums, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Ritual
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Traditional Arts Indiana Joins the Mathers Museum of World Cultures
I am very pleased to welcome Traditional Arts Indiana as well as its Director–my friend and colleague Dr. Jon Kay–to the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. Indiana University announced this...
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