Applications due: October 1, 2025
2025 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology: Cultivating Transparency and Reciprocity across Transnational Professional Contexts
Date: November 19, 2025, noon-6:30pm
Location: New Orleans Museum of Art, in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association Meetings
Mentors: Amanda Maples (Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, New Orleans Museum of Art), Orlando Hernandez Ying (Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas), Elysia Poon (Director, Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe)
Description: The Council for Museum Anthropology’s Ivan Karp Workshop invites applications from students and early career anthropologists, practitioners, and scholars interested in the methodologies of researching and curating collections with transparency and reciprocity, and centering multivocal epistemologies.
Working with museum scholar-practitioners whose careers have sought to bring these values to projects across domains–doing research, developing and implementing policy, and curating and creating exhibitions, this two-part workshop offers insight into both how to develop such values, skills, and knowledge across projects and how career trajectories may unfold in ways that can enhance and/or challenge those values, skills, and knowledge, as well as expectations.
