#ARCSChat Podcast

Museums have many facets, but one of their key functions is to serve as repositories for histories, cultures, and information. In more recent years, our field has begun to re-evaluate the specific stories museums have collected, and more importantly, amplify those that have been excluded. On February 1st we explored diversifying our data with Frances Lloyd-Baynes, Head of Collections Information Management at Minneapolis Institute of Art.

AAMC Artist Demographics Consortium

Judith Pineiro, Executive Director
AAMC & AAMC Foundation
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Slack: TMS Artists Questionnaire Group

Jaye Melino, MoMA (Host)

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"Decolonizing Digital Preservation", Monica Montgomery, Founder of Museum Hue

Resources:

"Documenting Diversity: How should museums identify art and artists?" Frances Lloyd-Baynes, March 27, 2019.

Data Feminism. Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020

Digital Transgender Archives https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/

Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control, Jane Sandberg, ed. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2019

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000

Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities. Elizabeth Losh and ‎Jacqueline Wernimont. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, How We Collect Data Determines Whose Voice Is Heard (2020) https://www.schusterman.org/blogs/rella-kaplowitz/how-we-collect-data-determines-whose-voice-is-heard

The courier conundrum: Send or don't send? We tackle the ethics and responsibility behind the decision to send a courier and all that's involved in making the decision. This chat will work in conjunction with the courier training workshop put on by ARCS in Ft. Worth, Texas at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. This workshop will address the necessary skills required to travel as well as seek to establish a standard in the quality of supervision. We will also reference research done by ARCS about when institutions decide to send a courier and, if so, who.

This episode features guest co-host, Samantha Forsko, Vice President of the ARCS Board, and four members of the IDEA task force (Co-Chair Renee S. Anderson, Ph.D. [she/her], Shiori Oki [she/her], Janet Chen [she/her], Tiffany Charles [she/her]).

In this discussion we explore the themes of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion within our field, discuss the creation of the ARCS IDEA task force and their work to date, as well as the future of the IDEA group.

For more information of the IDEA task force, its members, and its work, please follow the attached link: https://www.arcsinfo.org/content/documents/arcschatmarch2021descriptionbios.pdf

In response to the difficult times in which lending and borrowing institutions find themselves and the status of their loans, #ARCSChat brings you a special bonus episode discussing our current situation. Representatives from a variety of shipping and broker companies join hosts John Robinette (@CargaLatina) and Robin Bauer Kilgo (@rbkilgo) as they explore the ways in which shipping and loans may get handled in the upcoming months. Audience participation from the YouTube Live session is included in this episode, as well as a few bonus outtakes to keep the levity alive! Please remember to rate the podcast and share your feedback on topics and sessions by reaching out to us on Twitter @arcs4all and via email at [email protected].