Weeknotes: 04/23/23-04/29/23

weeknotes museum teaching indigenous family tech

This Week:

Most of my week was spent caring for or worrying about sick family members. We’re all a bit under the weather from something, though some of us more than others. Both kids were home from school for at least a day at some point this week, but everyone seems to be on the mend now that the week is ending
If all goes as planned, I’m going to de-install “Hybrid: The Kiva Show” on Saturday. This wonderful show, by Jason Medicine Eagle Martinez has been a wildly popular and exciting show here at the Museum for the last six months. I’m sorry to see it go down, but I hope we will be able to do more exciting contemporary indigenous art shows in the future. The image above is from this show, and hopefully we’re going to be acquiring a few pieces from Jason for our permanent collection.
In MUST204, my students have been working on their final projects, including improving catalog descriptions, researching unusual prints, object labelling, and mold cleaning.
I’ve been trying to finish up the plan for our new archaeology exhibit, and got some good notes from some colleagues this week to help out.
Still working on repatriation grants.
The Museum welcomed the Hartwick Jazz combo for a live performance.
I did a little work on this website adding a books section that will (hopefully) be a record of books I read and have read, along with my thoughts on them.