Episode 19: These are historical memory spaces- they’re transformative
Amplify Good
English - May 25, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNon-Profit Business Society & Culture business community diversity society nonprofit personaljourney Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Aria is SO excited to share this episode with you all! George and Aria go WAY back to when they were figuring out who they wanted to be in the world and how they wanted to approach their lives. After a span of roughly 8 billion years, it was incredible to reconnect over the podcast and catch up on what journeys they’ve been on.
George Garner earned his M.A. in Museum Studies from the prestigious Cooperstown Graduate Program where he gained experience in museum administration, exhibitions, and collections care at such well-known institutions as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, New York) and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (St. Michael’s, Maryland). Since then, he has dedicated his career to exploring how museums and other memory spaces can lead people to make meaning from traumatic histories and use that history to work actively towards change today.
He is excited by efforts to move beyond traditional museum models and recognizing how museums can become a thriving and integral part of 21st-century communities. Since 2012, he has served in various curatorial and administrative roles at the Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center, a space that, for thirty years, operated as a segregated city-owned swimming pool.
Links:
Back to the Future: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/
Civil Rights Heritage Center: https://clas.iusb.edu/centers/civil-rights/index.html
Freedom Summer: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/freedom-summer
Kimberle Crenshaw- Intersectionality: https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en
Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum: http://www.anthracitemuseum.org/
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617257/subtle-acts-of-exclusion-by-tiffany-jana-and-michael-baran/
Keywords: museum, curator, civil rights, freedom summer, anthracite, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, segregation, racism, integration, intersectionality, heritage, microaggression, exclusion, inclusion, history, sociology