Live Webinar: Challenging Histories: Engaging with Community through Exhibitions
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Webinar Description
How can we use our exhibitions to engage our local communities? How or should exhibitions examine and reinterpret the stories that our institution tells? In this webinar, attendees will join curator Gwen Whiting as she shares experiences from exhibitions developed on topics ranging from transgender history to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. In this webinar, we will discuss how WSHS developed these topics and exhibitions, while exploring ideas for working with your local communities to bring history to life.
Learning Outcomes
- Attendees will discuss how to create a space of shared authority for community groups within exhibition content and interpretation.
- Attendees will discuss ways of addressing sensitive and difficult topics using exhibition content.
Details
DATE: November 16, 2021
TIME: 3:00 - 4:00 pm EASTERN (Remember to adjust for your time zone)
COST: $25 AASLH Members / $45 Nonmembers / $15 discount for STEPS participants with promo code found in the online STEPS Community
ACCESS: You will be provided with instructions on how to access the live event upon registration.
STEPS Standard
This webinar will help organizations enrolled in STEPS* address Interpretation Standard 6 (New Workbook): The institution asserts its public service role and places education at the center of that role.
*Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (STEPS) is a self-study, self-paced assessment tool designed specifically for small- to mid-sized history organizations, including volunteer-run institutions. Through a workbook, online resources, and an online community, organizations enrolled in STEPS review their policies and practices and benchmark themselves against national standards.
Recording and Captioning
We will record this event. Access the Recorded Webinar in the AASLH Resource Center after the event has passed. Registrants of this event receive complimentary access to the recording in their Dashboard.
Real-time captioning is provided for the live event. A transcript is provided with the recording.
How to Register
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Gwen Whiting
Lead Curator
Washington State Historical Society
Gwen Whiting is the Lead Curator at the Washington State Historical Society. She holds a Master of Arts in Military History from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. The exhibitions that Gwen has curated for the Historical Society include Unlocking McNeil’s Past: The Prison, The Place, The People, Remembrance [about the incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II], and Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West. Prior to her tenure as Lead Curator, Whiting worked as a museum educator for over a decade, receiving numerous honors for her work in facilitated field trip programming and the online student publication COLUMBIAKids.
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