March 31,
2004
Morse Auditorium
Peabody
Essex Museum
East India
Square
Salem, MA 01970-3783 USA
Phone: 978-745-9500, 866-745-1876
As in previous years, the
Wednesday before the official opening of the ACASA Triennial will be devoted
to discussions for museum professionals. “Museum Day 2004: Contemporary
African Art in the Museum Setting” will focus on issues and practices
that professionals encounter in their efforts to define and place contemporary
African art within the museum setting. Museum Day 2004 will be held on March 31, 2004 in
the Morse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum in historic Salem, MA, where
the exhibition Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora will also be on display.
Morning
Session
9:30-10:30
Bus pick-up and transportation from Barker
Center, Harvard
University to the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem.
10:45-11:00 John Grimes, Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives, Peabody Essex Museum, Welcoming Address
11:00-11:30 Barbara
Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic and Native American Collections, Hood
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, The Issues So Far: Contemporary African
Art in Museum Settings
11:30-12:00
Christa Clarke, Curator, Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, the Newark
Museum, Contemporary Art and African Identity: A Curator's Perspective
12:00-12:30
Catherine Amidon, Art Gallery Director, Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth State
University, Revisiting Jamaica
12:30-1:30
Lunch Break
Afternoon
Session
1:30-2:00
Elizabeth Harney, Professor of Fine Arts, University of Toronto, Contemporary
Musings: Interrogating the Canon
2:00-2:30
Rebecca Nagy, Director, Harn Museum of Art, A Personal Journey:
Curator’s Challenge, Director’s Dilemma
2:30-3:00
Laurie Farrell, Curator, Museum for African Art,Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary
African Diaspora
3:00-4:00
Viewing of Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora
4:00-5:00
Bus pick up and transportation from Peabody Essex Museum to Barker Center,
Harvard University.