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[https://commonplace.online/article/unredact-the-facts/ by k. kennedy Whiters COMMON PLACE] | [https://commonplace.online/article/unredact-the-facts/ by k. kennedy Whiters COMMON PLACE] | ||
The introductory interpretative panel for the exhibit sets the tone for what the visitor will experience for the next one to two hours: a fuller story about the artwork that depicts the history of the early American North. I commend the racially diverse curatorial team on their efforts in evolving museum interpretation with racially equitable grammar and language that tells a fuller story for restorative justice in the museum and history fields. While there is much to applaud, the Black figures are not the only “unnamed figures” in this exhibit. For true restorative justice, missing are the White historians and museum professionals who caused the Black figures to be labeled as “unnamed” for professionals and the general public to hold them accountable for their actions. | The introductory interpretative panel for the exhibit sets the tone for what the visitor will experience for the next one to two hours: a fuller story about the artwork that depicts the history of the early American North. I commend the racially diverse curatorial team on their efforts in evolving museum interpretation with racially equitable grammar and language that tells a fuller story for restorative justice in the museum and history fields. While there is much to applaud, the Black figures are not the only “unnamed figures” in this exhibit. For true restorative justice, missing are the White historians and museum professionals who caused the Black figures to be labeled as “unnamed” for professionals and the general public to hold them accountable for their actions. | ||
=====Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection===== | |||
[https://emuseum.huntington.org/collections/10240/jonathan-and-karin-fielding-collection by THE HUNTINGTON] | |||
The Fielding Collection of Early American Art is an esteemed group of American works from the period 1680 to around 1870. Numbering in the hundreds of objects, the collection includes important examples of painted portraits, furniture, needlework, painted boxes, quilts, and related decorative art. The collection also focuses on beautiful objects made for everyday living by mostly rural New Englanders: lighting devices, fire buckets, metal implements, scrimshaw, handwoven rugs, and weathervanes together evoke the rustic yet refined world built by the hands of early Americans. | |||
