d) Policy on recording classroom sessions: To ensure the free and open discussion of ideas,

students may not record classroom lectures, discussion and/or activities without the advance
written permission of the instructor, and any such recording properly approved in advance can be
used solely for the students own private use.

Course Schedule:
*subject to change*
Week 1: introduction
M Aug 28 introduction to course 203 FFA
-what if anything is a museum? objects, publics?
W Aug 30 overview of museums and audiences 203 FFA
-institutions/creators of one-way authority to co-creation: civilizers, educators to
places of interaction, creativity, participation
-the importance of and
-groups assigned
Reading: Duncan, Carol. 1995. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. London:
Routledge, 5-20; Gurian, Elaine H., 2006. Civilizing the Museum. London: Routledge,
14-18; Crooke, E. 2015. The Active Museum: How Concern with Community
Transformed the Museum. In The International Handbooks of Museum Studies 2, ed.
Leahy, H.R., S. MacDonald, and C. McCarthy. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 481-502.
Week 2: historiography 1
M Sep 4 no class (Labor Day holiday)
W Sep 6 no class in lieu of mandatory attendance at TH Sep 7 lecture: Dr. Janet
Marstine, Artists Interventions and the Project of Reconciliation Between Museums
and Publics, 4pm 202 FFA, reception in the Cloister to follow
Reading: Marstine, Janet. 2017. Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics. New York:
Routledge, 1-19 [online via PittCat].
-F Sep 8: add/drop deadline
Week 3: historiography 2
M Sep 11 why critique? why reconciliation? meet at the Portal Entrance at the rear of
the museum to go to Dev. Conf. room
-Science Museum of Minnesota: First Encounters
-CMOA current project: 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie
Museum of Art

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 -Stephen Foster monument
Reading: Cooper, Karen Coody. 2008. Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest
Museum Policies and Practices, 109-120; press for 20/20 and the Stephen Foster
monument on Courseweb.
W Sep 13 participation as reconciliation? Dev. Conf. room
-artist participation: CMOA past project: Helio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium
-audience participation
Reading: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 2012. Audience as Subject. San Francisco,
YBCA, 8-9; 15-24.
Week 4: what is the participatory museum 1
M Sep 18 principles of participation 203 FFA
-Columbus Museum of Art
-CMOA past project: The Stories You Tell
-[guest museum professional: Catherine Evans, CMOA Chief Curator]
Reading: Evans, C. 2014. The Impact of the Participatory, Visitor-Centered Model on
Curatorial Practice. Journal of Museum Education 39 (2): 152-161; Simon, ch. 1:
principles of participation.
W Sep 20 group-led reading discussion 203 FFA
Reading: Simon, ch. 2: participation begins with me
Week 5: what is the participatory museum 2
M Sep 25 the networked effect and five stages of experience 203 FFA
Reading: Simon, ch. 3: from me to we
Due: first response
W Sep 27 group-led reading discussion Dev. Conf. room
Reading: Simon, ch. 4: social objects
Week 6: CMOA
M Oct 2 institutional introduction; CMOA current projects: Art Tracks; Teenie Harris
Photographs Dev. Conf. room
-[guest museum professionals: Louise Lippincott, CMOA Curator of Fine Arts
and Charlene Foggie-Barnett, CMOA Teenie Harris Curatorial Archive Assistant]
W Oct 4 CMOA current project: the International 203 FFA

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 -[guest museum professional: Liz Park, CMOA Associate Curator of the Carnegie
International 2018]
Week 7: the Warhol 1
M Oct 9 no class (Fall Break)
W Oct 11 Dev. Conf. room institutional introduction; Warhol past project: Without
Sanctuary Project
Reading: Gogan, Jessica. 2005. "The Warhol: Museum as Artist: Creative, Dialogic &
Civic Practice." Animating Democracy: 1-32.
Week 8: the Warhol 2 and CMP Dev. Conf. room for the rest of the semester
M Oct 16 the Warhol 2017
-[guest museum professional: Jessica Beck, Milton Fine Curator of Art]
W Oct 18 CMP institutional introduction; current project: Nexus/Bricolage DODO
-[guest museum professional: Maureen Rolla, CMP Director of Strategic Initiatives]
Reading: Finkelpearl, Tom. 2014. What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social
Cooperation. Durham: Duke University Press, 1-50 [online via PittCat]; DODO press:
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2017/08/17/Bricolage-and-Carnegie-
Museums-of-Pittsburgh-announce-behind-the-scenes-immersive-project-
DODO/stories/201708170170
Week 9: CMNH
M Oct 23 institutional introduction; CMNH past projects: Hall of African Wildlife and
Lion Attacking a Dromedary
Reading: Moser, Stephanie. "The Devil is in the Detail: Museum Displays and the
Creation of Knowledge." Museum Anthropology 33, no. 1 (2010): 22-32.
W Oct 25 CMNH current project: Egypt on the Nile
Reading: Exell, K. 2013. Community Consultation and the Redevelopment of
Manchester Museums Ancient Egypt Galleries. In Museums and Communities:
Curators, Collections, and Collaboration, ed. Golding, V. and W. Modest. New York:
Bloomsbury, 130-142.
Due: final project list of resources
Week 10: the Warhol continued and the Science Center
M Oct 30 the Warhol 2017
-[guest museum professional: Desi Gonzalez, Manager of Digital Engagement, Strategic
Initiatives]

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 W Nov 1 institutional introduction; Science Center project: Carnegie STEM Excellent
Pathway
Week 11: how to be participatory 1
M Nov 6 institutional values and models for participation
Reading: Simon, ch. 5: defining participation at your institution
W Nov 8 group-led reading discussion
Reading: Simon, ch. 6: visitors as contributors
Week 12: how to be participatory 2
M Nov 13 partners and co-owners
Reading: Simon, chs. 7-8: collaborating with visitors; co-creating with visitors
W Nov 15 group-led reading discussion
Reading: Simon, ch. 9: hosting participants
Week 13: presentation previews
M Nov 20 presentation previews
Due: presentation preview materials to Courseweb
W Nov 22 no class (Thanksgiving holiday)
Week 14: conclusions and future directions
M Nov 27 CMP airport projects the Studio
-Oakland Museum of California
-[guest museum professionals: Jeffrey Inscho, Manager, CMP Studio and Christina
Linden, former Oakland Museum of California Associate Curator of Painting and
Sculpture]
Reading: Samis, P. and M. Michaelson. 2017. Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum.
New York: Routledge, 116-124 [online via PittCat].
W Nov 29 recap -reconciliation as critical practice
Reading: Marstine, Janet. 2017. Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics. New York:
Routledge, 19-39 [online via PittCat].
Week 15: presentations
M Dec 4 presentations
W Dec 6 presentations

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Finals Week: final responses due
W Dec 13 finals
Due: final responses and graduate student article review