Visitor-Centered Exhibitions and Edu-Curation in Art Museums

Pat Villeneuve is professor and director of arts administration in the Department of Art Education, Florida State University, where she has developed graduate programs in museum education and visitor-centered exhibitions. Pat is editor of the book From Periphery to Center: Art Museum Education in the 21st Century and recipient of the National Art Education Association national museum educator of the year award in 2009. She has published and presented extensively nationally and internationally and has developed supported interpretation, a model for visitor-centered exhibitions. Ann Rowson Love is the coordinating faculty member for the museum education and visitor-centered exhibitions program in the Department of Art Education at Florida State University. She is also faculty liaison to The Ringling. Ann has been a museum educator, curator, and administrator for over 25 years. She presents and publishes widely on curatorial collaboration, visitor studies, and art museum interpretation.

Foreword by Kaywin Feldman
Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I. Foundations: The Need for Edu-Curation

1. From There to Here: In Support of Visitor-Centered Exhibitions
Pat Villeneuve

2. Edu-Curation and the Edu-Curator
Ann Rowson Love and Pat Villeneuve

3. Rethinking Curator/Educator Training and Interaction in the Co-Production of Art Museum Exhibitions
Brian Hogarth

Part II. Readiness: Structuring Your Approach

4. From Consultation to Collaboration: Mechanisms for Integrating Community Voices into Exhibition Development
Judith Koke and Keri Ryan
5. Dynamic Moments: Testing High-Engagement Visitor Experiences at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Maia Werner-Avidon, Deborah Clearwaters and Dany Chan

6. Cu-Rate: Starting Curatorial Collaboration with Evaluation
Ann Rowson Love

7. Aligning Authority with Responsibility for Interpretation
Kathryn E. Blake, Jerry N. Smith and Christian Adame

Part III. Collaboration in Action

8. Beyond the Gate: Collaborating with Living Artists to Bring Communities into the Museum and the Museum into Communities
Maureen Thomas-Zaremba and Matthew McLendon

9. Collaboration Within and Outside the Museum: Student-Written Labels in a Featured Exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Rosie Riordan and Stephanie Fox Knappe

10. Supported Interpretation: Building a Visitor-Centered Exhibition Model
Pat Villeneuve

11. The Absolute Resolution Photography Exhibition: Facilitating Visitor Engagement with Supported Interpretation (SI)
Alicia Viera, Carla Ellard and Kathy Vargas

12. Visitor as Activist: A Mobile Social Justice Museum's Call for Critical Visitor Engagement
Monica O. Montgomery and Hannah Heller

Part IV. Seeing Inside the Process

13. Multivocal, Collaborative Practices in Community-Based Art Museum Exhibitions
Marianna Pegno and Chelsea Farrar

14. For the Use of Art
Astrid Cats

15. Philosophical Inquiry: A Tool for Decision Making in Participatory Curation
Trish Scott, Ayisha de Lanerolle, Karen Eslea and individual participants

16. Teaching Visitor-Centered Exhibitions: A Duoethnography of Two Team Members
Ann Rowson Love and John Jay Boda

Part V. Sustaining Engaged Organizational Learning

17. Complementary: Reflections on Curator-Educator Teamwork at the Denver Art Museum
Stefania Van Dyke

18. Building a Workplace That Supports Educator – Curator Collaboration
Jennifer Wild Czajkowski and Salvador Salort-Pons

19. Visitor-Centered Exhibition Design: Theory into Practice
Elizabeth K. Eder, Andrew Pekarik and Zeynep Simavi

About the Editors and Contributors
Index