Radical Reimaginings in Museum Education

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About the authors:

Wendy Ng is a senior education and programming leader who has conceived and implemented strategic plans: change management, and culture transformation initiatives rooted in anti-oppression praxis throughout her career managing educational programming in large public institutions including the Ontario Science Centre, Royal Ontario Museum, and Art Gallery of Ontario. She is the principal owner and consultant of Twin Muses Consulting Services, presents regularly at national and international conferences, and is a published author with a focus on social justice in museum education. Wendy holds a MAT in Museum Education from George Washington University, a BFA and BEd from York University, and is a certified teacher in Ontario.

Audrey Hudson is an educator, artist: researcher and futurist. She holds a PhD from University of Toronto/Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UT/OISE), focused on Hip-Hop and photography as sites of resilience and solidarity for Black and Indigenous communities. Audrey is part of the Leadership Team at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), where she is the Richard & Elizabeth Currie Chief, Education & Programming and teaches Black Canadian Studies at University of Toronto. Audrey has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at OCAD University, Ryerson, and University of Toronto, and has been an Art Educator and programmer for 22 years. Audrey believes museums are spaces for cultural change, creative community engagement, future thinking and joy.

Jaclyn Roessel Born and raised on the Navajo Nation, it is the wisdom of her homelands that shapes Jaclyn Roessel’s cosmovision. Experience as a museum professional, cultural arts producer, and curator confirmed her belief of the inherent power of utilizing cultural learning as a tool to engage and build stronger communities. Molded by her grandmothers, Jaclyn has fostered a praxis that utilizes Indigenous ways of knowing and decolonized methodologies as a catalyst to build cultural equity in organizations. Whether it is as the founder of her company Grownup Navajo, in her poetic writings, or in her work as a cultural justice & equity consultant, Jaclyn is motivated by the pursuit of Indigenous excellence and the action to radically imagine futures where Indigenous peoples’ lands and cultures are thriving, revered, and protected.

Notes

1 “Turtle Island” is a name that some Indigenous nations including the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Algonquin use for the land now known as North America.

2 hooks, All about Love.

3 Day, Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism.

4 Gilligan, In a Different Voice.