Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker (American Alliance of Museums)

The purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and writing this book I now see how this is connected to the politics of hope and to those revolutionary days that are the days of creation of the world. Decentralization and direct democracy could, in one definition, be

As museums, we have advocated for being arbiters not only of taste, but of humanism. And now we have to question how effective we have been and how much lip service we have paid to actual change, rather than creating real change. We don’t look like the things we have been talking about.

poetics and politics can be reshaped. Organizers are aspiring authors and artists, creating elements of stories, in constellations we are often unaware of, with pockets of unseen work happening far and wide. Creating connection, potential, and possibility is creative work. We are in a moment when we must hold prediction and possibility all at once.

How can your business teach its customers to be participants in its purpose?

As Citizens, we must develop a sense of belonging in community, cultivate relationships with one another, help heal each other, and collectively build the world that will cease to make philanthropy necessary.