Museums & Cultural Organizing

Presenter: Prerana Reddy

During this session the Queens Museum will share a case study exploring how the artistic process itself can serve as a form of organizing. At the Queens Museum, museum staff and commissioned artists work alongside community members in building relationships, researching the issues in their community, and developing collaborative artistic actions. Through this process, it is the goal of the Queens museum that through this process the community develops new leaders, comes to agreement around collective goals, and increases its capacity to create change, all the while building and respecting their cultural heritages.