Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today

Joni Boyd Acuff is assistant professor of art education at the Ohio State University. Laura Evans is assistant professor of art history and art education and the director of the Art Museum Education Certificate at the University of North Texas.

• List of TablesIntroduction and ContextJoni Boyd Acuff and Laura EvansSection 1: Museum Educators as Change AgentsChapter 1: “Stuck” is where you need to pay attention: Some barriers to creating truly inclusive art museumsMarianna Adams and Judy Koke Chapter 2: Stimulating change through story-telling: Art museum educators of color share their lived experiences with multicultural issuesNatasha ReidChapter 3: Excellence and equity?: A reflection on the diversification of museumsWendy Ng and Syrus Marcus WareChapter 4: Unheard: Voices of women of color in the museumFlavia Zuñiga-WestSection 2: Inclusion versus ExclusionChapter 5: Collaborating with communities: New conceptualizations of hybridized museum practiceTraci Quinn and Marianna PegnoChapter 6: Multiculturalism and the Supported Interpretation (SI) Model: Embracing cultural diversity through inclusive art exhibitionsPat Villeneuve and Alicia VieraChapter 7: Enabling access at the Meadows Museum: An ongoing

This much-needed text addresses the paucity of information about the strategies museums and museum educators can use to perform multiculturalism. Consistent with the goals and contributions of COMC over the past 40+ years, Acuff and Evans have addressed issues of multiculturalism and diversity that impact museum education using the framework of critical multicultural education theory. They direct us to arguments that reposition multicultural education from a largely theoretical domain to a more practical application that interrogates the construction and complexity of power relations, racialization, nondominate knowledge, and equity. . . . COMC invites you to read and respond to this groundbreaking, seminal text.