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Arizona State University Art Museum (ASUAM) - Cailinn Allen - Week 2

 Arizona State University Art Museum - Cailinn Allen - Week 2

¡Hola todos! This week began with me playing catch-up as I missed Friday and Monday. I was a facilitator at the Gila River Youth Conference hosted by the Akimel O'odham Pee-Posh Youth Council. Below is a photo of all of the District 5/Vah-Ki, my home district, attendees! While I was working remotely for the museum I was able to inform fellow facilitators and attendees about the Young Ambassador Program, NMAL, and the ASU Art Museum!
Once I was back in person, I jumped right back into researching the upcoming 2025 exhibit, which I am not permitted to share about. Sade, the museum's Windgate Curatorial Fellow, has been assigning me projects to work on within the exhibit, and is a huge help in my internship! By the end of the week we had finalized our drafts of curatorial posters for the exhibition. 

Throughout the rest of the week I began gathering background information for our upcoming Mariana Castillo De Ball exhibit. De Ball highlights Meso-American archaeology through a modern lens through various mediums. 

I quickly delved into researching Meso-American archaeology practices and the intersections of archaeology and colonialism. I read countless papers and dissertations including "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" by Paulette Steeves - a book that has been on my to-read list since 2022! The colonial roots of Meso-American are especially poignant when looking for older research, as any paper before 1990 only uses the term "Pre-Columbian".

This was an expansive topic to dive into as it further educated me on settler colonialism, scientific racism, various epistemologies in Western archaeology, the notion of settler vs. immigrant, the Native American Graves Protection and Reparations Act, genocide studies, and the archaic racial classifications of Indigeneity, Blackness, and Latinidad.

While a few of these topics I was already familiar with, I am now confident in my knowledge and am looking forward to exploring them further in both my internship and my studies this fall.



Pictured is the museum's Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix exhibition. The gallery features protest posters, art, and mementos left at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, as well as posters from Black Lives Matter marches in Phoenix. While George Floyd Square is now a landmark, it was formerly the intersection of 38th Street East and Chicago Avenue South - where George Floyd was lynched by Minneapolis police in May of 2020. The stairwell up to the gallery is marked with the names of Black men killed by members of the Phoenix Police Department and its associates. These deaths all occurred between 2013 and 2023.

This is all made possible through the George Floyd Global Memorial Team - a group I had not known of prior. Their advocacy and organization underscore not only equality and justice, but also the importance of museumship and the role institutions play in recording historical events.

On Friday, I began my morning with my story time at the Tempe Public Library. There were so many energetic families and I truly adored the experience. Once I got back to the office I departed to the Ceramics Research Center for an IRL XP featuring archival pieces led by Sade Moore and Amanda Hiatt. 


It's been so nice reading everyone's updates, I hope you all have a restful weekend.


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