Reenvisioning Histories of American Art: Transforming Museum Practice

＂In recent years, museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories and legacies, many of which have depended on exclusion, exploitation, and even theft. This institutional self-reflection and transformation has emerged in tandem with a focus on incorporating antiracism and decolonization throughout museum work in general. Although more and more museums are seeking to diversify and make their collections, exhibitions, and staffs more inclusive, very little has been published about the actual processes involved in this meaningful work. This volume emerged from that dialogue, and highlights new scholarship and museum practices in diversifying collections, exhibitions, and staffs; discussing new frameworks for how museums develop institutional priorities; and interrupting colonial structures in museum curation and teaching art history＂--

Michael W. Hartman is Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. Jami C. Powell (Osage) is associate director of curatorial affairs and curator of Indigenous art at the Hood Museum and a faculty lecturer in Dartmouth’s Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies. She is editor of Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics.