{"id":13060,"date":"2022-02-15T18:36:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/conscious-curation-uplifting-black-narratives\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:36:38","slug":"conscious-curation-uplifting-black-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/conscious-curation-uplifting-black-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious Curation: Uplifting Black Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-md-12 panel-display mccoppin clearfix \">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 radix-layouts-column2 panel-panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-panel-inner content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-gia-submitted-by field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<div class=\"field--name-node-submitted-by\">Submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giarts.org\/blog\/Nadia%20Elokdah\">Nadia Elokdah<\/a> on February 11, 2022<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-dynamic-token-fieldnode-body field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<p>&#8220;After the catalyzing uprising in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder in May 2020, many cultural institutions have sought to represent themselves more equitably \u2014 that is to say, more diversely \u2014 to the Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community at large,&#8221; reports Frederica Simmons in Hyperallergic. &#8220;This pursuit of equity has fallen heavily on the shoulders of BIPOC cultural workers, as institutions rush to communicate their inclusivity to majority White audiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>Simmons, writing from the Twin Cities, asks, &#8220;Surrounded by outdated practices and bare-minimum standards, what does conscious curation look like?&#8221; Fostering a community of care and &#8220;welcoming BIPOC artists, curators, and others into the curatorial process creates a space for accountability,&#8221; Simmons offers.<\/p>\n<p>Performative efforts by White curators to create connections in the BIPOC community have resulted primarily in single exhibitions rather than continuing dialogues. Curators are critical in providing narratives and influence to the public that is often taken for granted by museum and gallery visitors. Curation can be both invisible and omnipotent: without the curatorial guidance, there is no meaning, no story. When curatorial work is viewed as preeminent, practitioners risk falling into patterns of self-assured superiority and operate from positions of power hoarding, assuming, as a result of their specialization within a particular field, the role of universal authority on such topics. This rapidly individualizes and isolates the process, often with negative consequences for diverse populations. When White curators seek to express BIPOC stories from their own perspectives, what is lost? Any opportunity for authentic truth to be conveyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/710528\/a-new-standard-for-uplifting-black-narratives-through-conscious-curation\/\">Read here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.mccoppin --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Nadia Elokdah on February 11, 2022 &#8220;After the catalyzing uprising in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder in May 2020, many cultural institutions have sought to represent themselves more equitably \u2014 that is to say, more diversely \u2014 to the Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community at large,&#8221; reports Frederica Simmons in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-for-artists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conscious Curation: Uplifting Black Narratives - United Arts Agency | UAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/conscious-curation-uplifting-black-narratives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conscious Curation: Uplifting Black Narratives - United Arts Agency | UAA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Submitted by Nadia Elokdah on February 11, 2022 &#8220;After the catalyzing uprising in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s murder in May 2020, many cultural institutions have sought to represent themselves more equitably \u2014 that is to say, more diversely \u2014 to the Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community at large,&#8221; 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