In the News

Please write to us to share any job changes or significant achievements you would like to share with MER members: network@mer-online.org.

• Notes From Members
  • Erin McCarthy, formerly of the Wheaton History Center in Wheaton, IL, has been named Education and School Programs Manager at the Swedish American Museum Center in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Kate Carey is the new Coordinator at the Teacher Resource Center of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. The McNay is celebrating its 50th anniversary year with two special exhibitions specific to their collection, From Goya to Johns: Fifty Master Prints from the McNay Art Museum and An Eye for the Stage: Highlights from the Tobin Collection of Theatre-Arts.
  • In June, 2004 Alexis Bierman was hired as the Manager of Interpretive Programs at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.
    
    
• Call for Submissions
  The Elusive Excellence of Equity:
  A Book about Museums and the Work of Social Change
  
  To respond to questions about the role of museums as agents of social change
  and the need for more models of socially engaged museum exhibit and education
  practices, we seek submissions by museum-workers, educators, youth, activists,
  artists, and others.
  
  We invite:
  Essays; curricula for museum studies; narratives showing critical use of
  museums; practitioner research; poems; photographs; cartoons; journalistic muck-
  raking; speculative or actual program, exhibit, and museum plans; manifestoes;
  descriptions of attempts to counter corporate control in museums; propaganda
  used by museum employees during union organizing; songs sung while picketing
  museums; work created in response to museum-based or museum-inspired projects;
  critical gender, queer, and race critiques of exhibits; annotated resource
  lists; critical historical and theoretical perspectives on museums, museum-
  work, museum education; and more.
  
  The constant?
  Submissions must be bold, address power, and articulate commitments to social
  justice perspectives. Our goal is to develop a collection of theoretical and
  practical narratives, models, and resources to support museum-workers,
  educators, students, and others working in and using museums, towards fostering
  the ongoing development of critical museology and museum studies.
  
  Deadline: January 2005
  
  Questions to editors: Therese Quinn and Patrick Roberts at tquinn@artic.edu and
  proberts@nl.edu.
  
  Submissions to: Therese Quinn, The Elusive Excellence of Equity
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Education
  37 S. Wabash Avenue
  Chicago IL 60603