Michelle Millar Fisher : “What would it mean to plant and sow things outside our institutions ?”

Points of Entry

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Michelle Millar Fisher, a Scotland-born design curator and co-founder of the grassroots collective Art + Museum Transparency. They talk about her experience working in the USA, her independent projects on the social histories of design for women, her outspokenness against unjust labor practices in museums, and her perspective on what cultural organisations should be focusing on during a global public health crisis.
mentioned in this episode :
Michelle Millar Fisher
https://michellemillarfisher.com
https://www.instagram.com/michellemillarfisher
Art + Museum Transparency
https://twitter.com/AMTransparency

Designing Motherhood
https://www.instagram.com/designingmotherhood
“Why are museums so plutocratic, and what can we do about it ?” : Andrea Fraser discusses how to radically reshape the power structures of museums today - Frieze
https://frieze.com/article/why-are-museums-so-plutocratic-and-what-can-we-do-about-it
"I Will What I Want: Women, Design and Empowerment" (exhibition)
https://michellemillarfisher.com/2017/04/10/i-will-what-i-want-women-design-and-empowerment-april-8-23
Kimberly Drew's keynote talk at the American Alliance of Museums’ 2019 annual meeting
https://www.aam-us.org/2019/05/28/aam2019-keynote-kimberly-drew
POWarts Salary Survey
https://www.powarts.org/salarysurvey
the 2015 union-lead staff protests at MoMA
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/06/moma-garden-party-drowned-out-by-staff-protest.html
Mamava pod for breastfeeding
https://www.mamava.com
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http://www.pointsofentry.com
https://www.instagram.com/pointsofentry
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