Rehearsal 3

Is it possible to decolonize the practices of collecting and exhibiting precolonial art and material culture? In recent years museums have faced calls to return or repatriate art made by indigenous Americans, or to otherwise dismantle their collections of the same. The Princeton University Art Museum's collection of art of the Ancient Americas was predominantly assembled by curator Gillett Griffin, prior to the implementation of international laws regulating the removal of objects made by indigenous artists from their places of origin. How does the Museum and its public grapple with this legacy? Acting Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions and Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curator and Lecturer of the Art of the Ancient Americas Bryan R. Just convenes an informal conversation to discuss this and other related questions. 

This event will take place in the Sterling Morton Gallery in the Princeton University Art Museum.

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