Arts,
Culture, and Media Domain Events
April 14, 2011 4:15 to 6:00pm
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Atlas Versus The Cherry Tree:
Museums, the Nation, and the World
Panelists
Kim Kanatani
Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
As the Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Kim Kanatani is responsible for developing educational linkages with the Guggenheim Museums worldwide to work in synergistic exchange with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Kanatani also directs the Sackler Center for Arts Education of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, an 8,200 square-foot facility that serves as a dynamic educational hub and learning laboratory for exploring and presenting a comprehensive range of program offerings in Modern and contemporary art for adults, youth, and families. Exploration and experimentation with new technologies as well as working with artists as collaborative partners in program development are among the Center’s hallmarks.
Active in the museum education field since 1981, she has published curriculum, resource materials, and articles on contemporary art and museum education. She has also co-produced several multimedia productions, educational installations and other public offerings in collaboration with internationally renowned artists including Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Daniel Buren, Cai Guo-Qiang, Anna Gaskell, Paul McCarthy, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, and James Rosenquist. She also currently serves as a faculty advisor with the Leadership in Museum Education Program at Bank Street College.
Honored with several professional awards, she was named the National Art Museum Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association in 1999, and served as the former Director of the Museum Division for the Association. Most recently she was a museum scholar in residence at The Getty Research Institute in 2010. Her research at the Getty focused on the development of a museum education program for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in preparation for its opening in 2013. Kanatani holds an M.A. in art education with teaching credentials in elementary and adult education. Prior to joining the Guggenheim in 2001, she was the Director of Education at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which she joined in 1985.
Jette Sandahl
Director,KØbenhavns Museum/Museum of Copenhagen
Jette came to the cultural sector after a decade of study, teaching and research in psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Spanning her academic work and her museum career is a commitment to individual and community empowerment, and to creating public institutions as platform for democratic dialogue and social change.
Jette Sandahl was a founding Director for the pioneering new Museum of World Cultures in Sweden, which opened in 2005, and a founding Director for the Women's Museum of Denmark. She has served as Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs for the National Museum of Denmark and, most recently, as Director Experience at Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand.
She is trained for museum leadership at the J. P. Getty Museum Management Institute.
She has been part of the difficult transition in museums as they struggle to reinterpret and transcend their traditional colonial or nationalistic world views, and both in theory and practice she has been active in shifting basic paradigms as cultural institutions adjust to the new obligations of complex, culturally diverse societies, and reach for methods that allow and facilitate cultural democracy, cultural participation and self-representation.
She lectures and publishes widely in the broad museological field.
Selected publications relevant in this context include:
• Museums and National Identity, in Museums 2000, Sweden, 2002
• Negotiating Identities, in Under Re-construction, Finland, 2002
• Identität, Vergangenheit, Vielfalt. Interkulturelle Konzepte von Museumsarbeit, in inter.kultur.politik. Kulturpolitik in der multiethnischen Gesellschaft , Germany, 2004
• Museums as Cultural Self-portraits, in Boekman 61, Tijdschrift voor kunst, cultuur en beleid, The Nederlands, 2004
• Living Entities, in The Native Universe and Museums in the 21st Century: The Significance of the National Museum of the American Indian, USA, 2005
• The Included Other – the Oxymoron of Contemporary Ethnographic Museums?, in Journal of Anthropology and Culture, Russia, 2007 (in Russian, and in English)
• Ein fortwährender Prozess der Aussöhnung, in Humboldt Forum Berlin. Das Project, Berlin, 2009
Irene Hirano
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Irene Hirano Inouye is President of the U.S.-Japan Council, appointed in April 2009. She is the former President and founding CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. After 20 years, she stepped down from her CEO position in spring 2008 with her marriage to U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye. A recipient of a B.A. and an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, Ms. Hirano Inouye has more than 35 years of experience in nonprofit administration, community education, and public affairs with culturally diverse communities nationwide. Her professional and community activities include serving as the Chair of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees; trustee and immediate past chair of the Kresge Foundation; trustee of the Independent Sector; National Trust for Historic Preservation; The Washington Center, and the National Children’s Museum. She is a past Chair of the American Association of Museums and former member of the Business Advisory Board of Sodexho Corporation and the Toyota Diversity Advisory Board. Ms. Hirano Inouye has led the ten Japanese American Leadership Delegations to Japan and served as co-chair of the Annual Consuls General and Japanese American Leaders Meeting since its inception.
Discussant
Tom Lentz
Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Museums
Link to CV
Moderator
Peggy Levitt
Professor, Wellesley College and Co-Director,
Transnational Studies InitiativeHarvard University
April 14, 2011 4:15 to 6:00pm
Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level)
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Atlas Versus The Cherry Tree:
Museums, the Nation, and the World
Panelists
Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
As the Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Kim Kanatani is responsible for developing educational linkages with the Guggenheim Museums worldwide to work in synergistic exchange with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Kanatani also directs the Sackler Center for Arts Education of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, an 8,200 square-foot facility that serves as a dynamic educational hub and learning laboratory for exploring and presenting a comprehensive range of program offerings in Modern and contemporary art for adults, youth, and families. Exploration and experimentation with new technologies as well as working with artists as collaborative partners in program development are among the Center’s hallmarks.
Active in the museum education field since 1981, she has published curriculum, resource materials, and articles on contemporary art and museum education. She has also co-produced several multimedia productions, educational installations and other public offerings in collaboration with internationally renowned artists including Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Daniel Buren, Cai Guo-Qiang, Anna Gaskell, Paul McCarthy, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, and James Rosenquist. She also currently serves as a faculty advisor with the Leadership in Museum Education Program at Bank Street College.
Honored with several professional awards, she was named the National Art Museum Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association in 1999, and served as the former Director of the Museum Division for the Association. Most recently she was a museum scholar in residence at The Getty Research Institute in 2010. Her research at the Getty focused on the development of a museum education program for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in preparation for its opening in 2013. Kanatani holds an M.A. in art education with teaching credentials in elementary and adult education. Prior to joining the Guggenheim in 2001, she was the Director of Education at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which she joined in 1985.
Jette Sandahl
Director,KØbenhavns Museum/Museum of Copenhagen
Jette came to the cultural sector after a decade of study, teaching and research in psychology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Spanning her academic work and her museum career is a commitment to individual and community empowerment, and to creating public institutions as platform for democratic dialogue and social change.
Jette Sandahl was a founding Director for the pioneering new Museum of World Cultures in Sweden, which opened in 2005, and a founding Director for the Women's Museum of Denmark. She has served as Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs for the National Museum of Denmark and, most recently, as Director Experience at Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand.
She is trained for museum leadership at the J. P. Getty Museum Management Institute.
She has been part of the difficult transition in museums as they struggle to reinterpret and transcend their traditional colonial or nationalistic world views, and both in theory and practice she has been active in shifting basic paradigms as cultural institutions adjust to the new obligations of complex, culturally diverse societies, and reach for methods that allow and facilitate cultural democracy, cultural participation and self-representation.
She lectures and publishes widely in the broad museological field.
Selected publications relevant in this context include:
• Museums and National Identity, in Museums 2000, Sweden, 2002
• Negotiating Identities, in Under Re-construction, Finland, 2002
• Identität, Vergangenheit, Vielfalt. Interkulturelle Konzepte von Museumsarbeit, in inter.kultur.politik. Kulturpolitik in der multiethnischen Gesellschaft , Germany, 2004
• Museums as Cultural Self-portraits, in Boekman 61, Tijdschrift voor kunst, cultuur en beleid, The Nederlands, 2004
• Living Entities, in The Native Universe and Museums in the 21st Century: The Significance of the National Museum of the American Indian, USA, 2005
• The Included Other – the Oxymoron of Contemporary Ethnographic Museums?, in Journal of Anthropology and Culture, Russia, 2007 (in Russian, and in English)
• Ein fortwährender Prozess der Aussöhnung, in Humboldt Forum Berlin. Das Project, Berlin, 2009
Irene Hirano
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Irene Hirano Inouye is President of the U.S.-Japan Council, appointed in April 2009. She is the former President and founding CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. After 20 years, she stepped down from her CEO position in spring 2008 with her marriage to U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye. A recipient of a B.A. and an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, Ms. Hirano Inouye has more than 35 years of experience in nonprofit administration, community education, and public affairs with culturally diverse communities nationwide. Her professional and community activities include serving as the Chair of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees; trustee and immediate past chair of the Kresge Foundation; trustee of the Independent Sector; National Trust for Historic Preservation; The Washington Center, and the National Children’s Museum. She is a past Chair of the American Association of Museums and former member of the Business Advisory Board of Sodexho Corporation and the Toyota Diversity Advisory Board. Ms. Hirano Inouye has led the ten Japanese American Leadership Delegations to Japan and served as co-chair of the Annual Consuls General and Japanese American Leaders Meeting since its inception.
Discussant
Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Museums
Link to CV
Moderator
Professor, Wellesley College and Co-Director,
Transnational Studies InitiativeHarvard University
