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Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
So much labor (paid & unpaid) makes museums possible. I'm thrilled to have a piece about this @monkeybicycle today!
@UMWpgh @MuseumSkint @newmuseum_union @TCMuseums @ArtWorkerUnion @ArtandLaborPod @saic_naj @PMA_Union @cultureworkers @MuseumWorkers @museum_detox @newmuseum_union
ON THE SITE TODAY: "The Museum of Historical Alternative Invisible Everythings," great new fiction from @BeckyLTuch.
monkeybicycle.net/the-museum…
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
Very happy to join this effort @DIRTDMV!
The Annotated Bibliography of Institutional Callouts: a “living archive” (ie please submit new/missing info!) of activism addressing art organizations and institutions.
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬 creates in collaboration with @AMTransparency, is a living archive, collating institutional and organizational written responses to systemic inequalities in the art world.
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
We heard from someone who’s organizing for frontline worker hazard pay at a US museum. They’re wondering:
1. If any museums out there are offering it and if so, how much.
2. If any groups of museum workers are demanding it and what their specific demands are.
Reply or dm us!
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
#LIVE: New #BlackLivesMatter Mural Outside of #Minnesota's only #AfricanAmerican #History Museum pscp.tv/w/ceIX0jFheVFWdmRWUm…
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Minnesota Museum of American Art has fired longtime executive director Kristin Makholm, who rebuilt the organization from near-bankruptcy and led it into a renovated St. Paul landmark.
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Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
"What we need to do though, is completely reimagine the board and experiment with some new structures."
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Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
If you’re worried about the tone of recent museum protests and your vision of change rests on winning the hearts and minds of executives and board members, please read this thread from @catchatweetdown:
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
A lot of museum professionals are wondering how best to be leaders for positive change in the museum field right now.
Is pursuing promotion into upper management and the executive ranks the best way, the only way?
Our answer:
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
More museum workers unionizing during the pandemic: joining @PMA_Union is a new union drive across four Pittsburgh museums!!Around 500 staff involved. Follow them @UMWpgh and stream tonight when they virtually drop off of their union authorization cards!!
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Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
89/ @artinstitutechi #Museumlayoffs : Art Institute lays off 51 ft staff from across depts, a week after staff organized to avoid layoffs: “Several of those who signed the letter, which also offers alternatives to layoffs, have since been laid off. “
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Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
Was laid off from Walker Art center today and felt like I meant nothing to the museum as FOH staff. I wasn't given resources, help, assistance, invitation back, just platitudes. #MuseumsAreNotNeutral – at Minneapolis, MN
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Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
absolute fucking trash. my spouse works at @artsmia which just shed about 40 good paying, necessary museum jobs. the director makes over $700k/year and their endowment, which they refuse to touch, is over $60m. oh and we pay for 40% of the museum w/ the @MplsParkBoard budget!
The @walkerartcenter just laid off about forty minimum wage workers meanwhile the director Mary Ceruti could only bear a pay cut from $500,000 to $450,000. The leadership of the Walker should be ashamed of themselves to put their lowest paid workers on the line right now.
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
The @walkerartcenter just laid off about forty minimum wage workers meanwhile the director Mary Ceruti could only bear a pay cut from $500,000 to $450,000. The leadership of the Walker should be ashamed of themselves to put their lowest paid workers on the line right now.
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
New open letter from @forculture2020, read it, sign it!
We are asking you to join us in our fight against systemic racism in our Museums and other Cultural Institutions by reading and signing our Open letter. Link to the letter: bit.ly/fortheculture2020
#fortheculture
#BlackLivesMattters
#pullupforchange
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
We are in another wave of #museumlayoffs and it’s terrible. Sharing this here to say: you may be the only one on your team laid off, or one of a larger number at your museum. In any case, you are not alone and this is not your fault. What’s happening at museums is happening...
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
cc museums laying off staff and retaining execs and senior management
If wealthy universities are serious about all these Black Lives Matter statements they are dropping, then they can not countinue laying off staff & service workers (often largely Black) while only protecting faculty jobs (overwhelmingly white) nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
I prepared this for my colleagues on my way out, but also for whoever can use it! docs.google.com/presentation… #musetech thanks to the many who contributed! ✊🏽🔥
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
Today, I resign, here is my letter: medium.com/@andreamontiel23/… #musetech
Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
These directors!! We shared the @FieldMuseum staff’s petition for transparency about forthcoming layoffs and pay cuts last week. “[Director] Lariviere was asked whether he’d be willing to take a deeper cut. He replied it would be a ‘meaningless gesture.’”
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Twin Cities Museum Collective retweeted
JOIN @BlackVisionsMN THIS SATURDAY IN A MARCH TO #DefundPolice
I BELIEVE IN BEAUTIFUL BLACK FUTURES. BLACK FUTURES WITHOUT POLICE! #FUCKMPD #AllScarcityisFabricated
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