Putting Children First
The Spring 2022 edition of Exhibition is out! It’s a great round-up of museum people who are working to create space for children in exhibits and programs. Big props to Editor Ellen Snyder-Grenier and Managing Editor Ian Kerrigan for pulling everyone together! If you’re going to the American Alliance of Museums annual conference in Boston,…
Play as acting out one’s capacity for the future
As I write this, many of us are on lockdown due to COVID-19: the coronavirus that has been reported in most countries all over the world. This disease is still spreading quickly. In the middle of all this, one of the most common phrases being used in the media about the future is this: “It…
‘You’re Just Less Orderly’: A Letter to Stuart Lester
Stuart Lester was the recipient of an unwritten letter of gratitude I had been carrying in my thoughts. Today was Stuart’s funeral. I can’t give him that letter any more. So the following is my way of writing that letter. And, as most letters of gratitude are, it is (uncomfortably) as much a letter about…
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