Digital Considerations for Museum Equity through the Lens of Remedy

An Exploration of Contemporary Issues and the Roles of Digital Asset Management

Uplift your professional practice and join us for a webinar exploring contemporary issues around museum equity, reparation, and their digital dimensions. We’ll explore and witness incremental shifts moving the museum field forward with bold new approaches to how digital asset and collections management supports these innovations.

First, social justice and DEI museum leader Monica O. Montgomery will discuss museum remedy: processes for engagement and repair, with guidance for equitable strategies in an evolving landscape of return. We then examine case studies of museums as better neighbors, sharing perspectives of three curators, working to boost social awareness around origins of sculptural and sacred items from Native American and African communities. Current exhibitions from the University of Michigan Museum of Art and a project partnership between the Anchorage Museum / Chickaloon Village Tribal Council are vibrant case studies, redefining ethics, intellectual property, and best practices around remedy.

With presentations by:

Monica O. Montgomery
Social Justice Curator + Museum DEI Consultant

Laura De Becker
The Helmut and Candis Stern Curator for African Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution

Monica Shah
Deputy Director of Conservation & Collections
Anchorage Museum

Selena Ortega-Chiolero
Museum Specialist
Chickaloon Village Traditional Council
Decolonizing Through Virtual Repatriation: A New Vision of Collections Access in partnership with Chickaloon Native Village

Moderated by David H. Lipsey
Co-Director, the Rutgers University Professional Certificate in Digital Asset Management