Happy Hour for and by Museum Workers who are helping shape cultural institutions from the ground up!
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We are excited to announce Museum Workers Advocacy Day 2022 ! Get pumped for a full lineup of programs and resources for museum workers, by museum workers. https://mwad2022.carrd.co/
We will not wait on the sidelines while our professional orgs advocate for themselves and for institutional interests. We gather in solidarity as our own advocates for a better future for labor in museums. Stay tuned for more info on how to participate!
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Want to participate in Museum Workers Advocacy Day but can't make it to our events? No sweat - participate in other ways, like donating to the Museum Workers Speak Mutual Aid Fund or convince AAM to .
See all the ways to get involved: https://buff.ly/3He3nMt
Museum Worker Advocacy Day—> This Wednesday, March 2!!! The National EMP Network
Signup to our mailing list on Linktree or RSVP here for a full day of events:
https://members.nationalempnetwork.org/posts/21153360
The National EMP Network envisions building communities and establishing a strong national network in which museum professionals collectively make meaningful connections within and across backgrounds, disciplines, and institutions by: providing leadership responding to changing needs of our members....
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Let this be the year when the public, workers, and artist come together to say to all the NYC city museums: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
Enough with your RACISM (Discrimination/Tokenizing)
Enough with your WAR PROFITS (Board member riches)
Enough with your ABUSE (board members enabling s*x traffickers)
Enough with your CLASSISM (war on the Poor.. low salaries for arts workers, high ticket prices)
GO MOMA DIVEST COALITION!!!
In a series of statements, artists including Nan Goldin, Michael Rakowitz, Xaviera Simmons, and Hito Steyerl have urged the Museum of Modern Art to address Black’s presence on its board.
On October 20, 2020 Museum Workers BIPOC Working Group gave public testimony on “BLM, Anti-Racism, and Structural Racism in the Arts” as part of an oversight hearing held by New York City Council / New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Committee
We encourage you to join us in holding museums accountable.
—-> Next meeting Tues Dec 1st (2Morrow!!)
——-> BIPoC Sign-up: https://forms.gle/XVCAn7aK6Kh5Z5rH9
BIPOC Museum & Cultural institution workers--->We need your help fight structural racism in the arts! Sign up to join our next meeting:
https://forms.gle/XVCAn7aK6Kh5Z5rH9
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Live hearing on BLM, Anti-Racism, Structural Racism in the Arts... https://livestream.com/accounts/17376047/events/9081844/player?width=960&height=540&enableInfoAndActivity=true&defaultDrawer=feed&autoPlay=false&mute=false
Watch NYC Council's City Council Virtual Room 1 on Livestream.com. City Council Hearings
HEY ALL YOU MUSEUM EDUCATORS! Emergency Relief Fund just opened up for you all! NYC Arts in Education Roundtable https://nycaieroundtable.org/relief-fund/
The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is proud to establish the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund. This fund will award one-time, unrestricted grants up to $1,000 to teaching artists and arts education administrators who are facing serious financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis. This fund is...
! Join this important zoom to cancel rent for all those affected by COVID19!!
We are facing a looming eviction crisis as housing courts across the state prepare to reopen and the moratorium on evictions comes to an end. According to some estimates, 1.4 million of New Yorkers are at risk of eviction. 92,000 more are already homeless in the midst of a global pandemic. The respo...
At our last Museum Workers Happy Hour, some of you expressed interested in helping extend CARES act past July 31.... Here is a petition! Please sign and pass it on!
Over the span of fourteen weeks, more than 47.1 million Americans have filed unemployment claims across the country because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This amounts to nearly 14% of the US population who are now out of a job—and that's only those who have formally applied for benefi...
Our colleagues at New Orleans Museum of Art!
https://sites.google.com/view/dismantlenoma/collective-statement?authuser=0
As we continue to protest the brutal murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless others, the moment has arrived to demand real change for our communities. To effectively do so, we must expose an institution's racism and hypocrisy. Not only is there a recently i...
Art Workers for Black Lives: An Open Letter from Arts and Cultural Workers of NYC, Demanding the Defunding of the Police and Investment in BIPOC Communities
Sent to the attention of:
Governor Andrew Cuomo
Mayor Bill de Blasio
Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea
District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez
District Attorney Darcel Denise Clark
District Attorney Melinda Katz
District Attorney Michael McMahon
https://artsworkersforblacklives.com/
Boston and Philly Arts & Cultural Workers have also penned letters to their city leadership.
Open Letter from Arts and Cultural Workers of NYC,Demanding the Defunding of the Police and Investment in BIPOC Communities attention: Governor Andrew Cuomo Mayor Bill de Blasio Police Commissioner Dermot F. Shea District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. District Attorney Eric Gonzalez District Attorney Dar...
Colleagues at the Jewish Museum!
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/in-open-letter-jewish-museum-staff-ask-for-greater-diversity-and-transparency
The move follows growing frustration after a Zoom meeting among employees and upper management at the New York institution
Open Letter to NYC Cultural Institutions
"We, the people, representing current and former black and brown employees, as well as other POC and non-POC allies, as a coalition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Opera, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and other cultural institutions (listed below) present a united front on the following institutional misconduct..."
https://fortheculture2020.com/
An open letter to New York City’s Cultural Institutions We, the people, representing current and former black and brown employees, as well as other POC and non-POC allies, as a coalition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Opera, The Museum of Modern Art, The Gugge...
Colleagues at the Guggenheim!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/arts/design/guggenheim-curators-racism-s*xism.html
A letter to the director, signed by “The Curatorial Department,” outlines steps the museum should take to diversify its staff, board and exhibitions.
Museum to remove Roosevelt statue decried as white supremacy
NEW YORK (AP) — The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and...
When museums want to seem woke, they hire curators of color to legitimize their white-run institutions. But to treat them so badly, come on! Shame on Guggenheim Museum and Same old game since #1968
Chaédria LaBouvier’s 2019 Basquiat exhibition should have been a triumph, but instead, she says, it was a professional nightmare.
After People's Cultural Plan, have released an open letter to the city's cultural institutions.... Links to both letters below..
We stand by our letter from March 17 from over a month ago and we are watching how museums and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs handle the crisis. There is still much to be done, to be repaired, to be rebuilt... (https://hyperallergic.com/548145/nyc-state-of-emergency-covid-19)
Additionally museum workers have made demands of their own, please read, sign, and share this petition if you agree: https://www.change.org/p/new-york-city-art-museums-open-letter-calling-on-museums-to-retain-staff-during-covid-19-crisis
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Cooper Hewitt, and others..
The racial dimension of this epidemic... 😢
NYC Death Toll by Ethnicity.... 34% Hispanic; 28% Black; 27% White; 7% Asian.
for part 2: Educational Staff (contract employees) lay-offs @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In an email sent this week, the museum told educators "it will be months, if not years, before we anticipate returning to budget and operations levels to require educator services."
for Part 1: Lay-offs of Visitor Services and temp workers Whitney Museum of American Art
Director Adam Weinberg says many of those who were laid off “work in visitor-related roles and are no longer able to fulfill their duties now that the Museum is closed.”
Does your museum or cultural institution have a stash of N-95 or surgical masks, gloves, or gowns? Are you a facilities, archives, conservation person or another specialty that uses this equipment at work?
http://ppe2nyc.com (started by medical students) is collecting Protective Personal Equipment (PPE) to hospitals and healthcare workers who are in desperate need of these supplies.
Most of us don’t have physical access to our institutions, but contact people at your organization - security staff, directors, anyone who can get in touch with the right person - who can get that vital equipment that is just sitting in closed offices and storage spaces. PPE2NYC has drop off locations as well as pick up, so they can come to the museum if someone is there to hand over the PPE.
As COVID-19 cases in NYC double, Google now working with US Gov, is automatically censoring outbreak maps of NYC.
Why aren't there any grassroots COVID-19 outbreak maps of NYC? Because Google is automatically censoring them!
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-outlines-latest-covid-19-tools-on-google-and-youtube-including-chan/574236/
Dear friends,
As NYC museums and cultural institutions close and shift to alternative operating models, many of us are left in precarious positions. We are eager to assess the needs of our worker community and to build up a network of support accordingly.
https://tinyurl.com/CulturalWorkersCOVID
PLEASE RESPOND TO AND SHARE OUR SURVEY which intends to figure out community needs, what support would be most helpful, and who has the time/capability to help run this initiative.
Creative Capital doing an amazing job of organizing emergency resources for the arts. https://creative-capital.org/2020/03/13/list-of-arts-resources-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/
Creative Capital staff is working remotely due to COVID-19, so please direct all communications through email. Online workshops will continue as planned.
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The MW Manifesto is an on-going project, but this weekend marks the completion of Art Workers Lab Gallery. We are grateful to P S 122 Galleryry for hosting us and to have shared the space with CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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❤Join us this SUNDAY for the last Manifesto Session of the season (Feb 16th)... Museum workers will be leading break-out sessions on topics of self-care, access, and inter-dept. relationships... -😘- See you there! ❤ ❤❤
Join us today for a special day-long Manifesto session: *Life as Work, Life as Museum.* 2pm-8pm...themes: for Museum Workers. Facilitated by MetMuseum/cultural worker Begonia Santa-Cecilia + friends. Organized: NYCMWHH (Megan Elevado and Antonio Serna https://www.facebook.com/events/523731858249224/
This Friday Archive and Film!! Manifesto Session 2: Documents of Resistance: Film Screening + Come learn about D.R.U.M. a historical example of self-determination in the work place, followed by a discussion on what this could mean for museum workers. [Picture: Drum Slate, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement 1970; courtesy Documents of Resistance Archive]
Our sessions start this week! Please let us know you are joining us by RSVPing. RSVP on Facebook on our events page or at tinyurl.com/museumworkersmanifesto where each event has an RSVP option.
We hope to see you at one or more of the sessions!
Art Workers Lab Kick Off Party --> This Friday!! , Join us @ P S 122 Gallery for the kick-off of 30 days focusing on art/worker projects. NYC Museum Workers Happy Hour will announce the Museum Workers Manifesto & Culture Workers Education Center will announce their programs. We've also invited folks from People's Cultural Plan to share some insights on city wide community/artists organizing!! facebook.com/events/578452336331120
Learning from Labor, : This week, back in 1968... Welfare Workers in NYC went on strike for better pay and working conditions... the results? read on District Council 37, AFSCME...
January 1965: Thousands of social workers, clerical, supervisors and other staffers at the NYC Welfare Department defied City Hall and went on strike for better pay and working conditions - and humane conditions for welfare recipients. These workers risked their jobs and their commitment galvanized NYC's labor unions and unions across the country. The 28-day strike resulted in a groundbreaking agreement that improved the lives of Welfare workers and their clients.
For all you "Bright Young ", Japanese New Wave, mid-80s. Hope to see you all Wednesday Night at the NYC Museum Workers Happy Hour: Holiday Edition!!!
This is a rip from my vinyl so the music may not be very HQ, fittingly the only two songs I could find online were the ones on my vinyl that had the worst sk...
I want your Job! reports on museum workers surviving in London! https://youtu.be/AKgsT5yTEWs
The FIRST episode of my new series I Want Your Job. In this episode I chat to three people working at the National Gallery of Victoria to get an idea of what...
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JOIN US FOR A WORKER SOLIDARITY DINNER NEXT FRIDAY --->Nov. 15 7:30–9:00pm
We will be special guest at Creative Time Summit X: Speaking Truth's Dinner Event hosted by A Common Project.. $20 Dinner Tickets + Summit Pass (required)
https://www.facebook.com/events/510769643104914/
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Friday, Feb 21| Art Workers Lab Closing Party ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 6:00-9:00pm ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ PS122 Gallery ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 150 1st Avenue (btwn 9th & 10th) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Manhattan ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Join us tomorrow for the closing party to view a map of who contributed to the month-long residency as well as installations that include New Poetics of Labor / Nuevas Poéticas del Trabajo, the Abang-Guard, DocumentsOfResistance, and Marabou at the Museum ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The MW Manifesto is an on-going project, but this weekend marks the completion of Art Workers Lab @PS122 Gallery. We are grateful to P S 122 Galleryry for hosting us and to have shared the space with CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Video description: The image is separated into four colorful boxes. Overlaid is white text on magenta background reading, “Tomorrow! Art Workers Lab @ps122gallery Closing Party, 6-9pm, 150 1st Ave” A tiny chick dances at the middle left and two dinosaurs in wigs cheers glasses and jump on the bottom right. #mwhh #MuseumWorkers #WorkerSolidarity #museums #NYCMuseumWorkers #MuseumWorkersManifesto #manifesto #MuseumWorkersManifesto2020 #ps122gallery #ps122
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