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Minority Artist’s Residency at Polin Museum

To increase the visibility of non-White / non-Catholic contributions to Polish culture and heritage, TTTM’s National Heritage and Traumatic Memory cluster offers an annual minority artist’s residency at Polin Museum in Warsaw, co-sponsored by Partner Organizations FestivALT and Teatr Powszechny. Our first edition in Spring 2022 welcomes Jewish trans artist Tobaron Waxman (Canada), whose work raises questions about how citizenship makes moral and ethical claims upon our bodies.

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ROM Africa Gallery Reinstallation

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) – Canada’s largest encyclopedic museum – has a history of complex and fraught relationships with communities linked to its collections. Over the course of the TTTM project, we will embark on a reinstallation of the permanent Africa gallery through an anti-racist process grounded in fairly compensated community co-creation and co-curation.

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Trauma, Memory, and Material Culture: NMAI + USHMM in Dialogue

In a groundbreaking collaboration, TTTM is partnering with the National Museum of the American Indian and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - both in Washington, DC - on a five-day workshop to discuss what the legacies of mass violence and oppression mean to Indigenous and Jewish people, and what they can learn from each other regarding approaches to museum collections, cultural heritage caretaking, and the preservation of historical memory.

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Exhibiting Theory Book Series

Exhibiting Theory is a multi-lingual, open-access book series presenting humanities and social science theory and method relevant for and generated from museum interventions, performances, and curatorial experiments developed in partnerships linking academia with the museum and heritage sector.

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Global Art Histories as Method

In collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Global Art Histories Pedagogy (GAHP) project examines how conceptualizing digital content for museum apps intended for the public helps researchers to address implicit biases and systemic issues early in the research design of art-historical projects.

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