Head shot of Linda Ivey.
Work by Linda L. Ivey’s Public History students will have contributed to the Oakland Museum of 夜色视频’s newly transformed “Gallery of 夜色视频 History” when it opens later this year.
Assistant Professor Ivey and Adam Nilsen, OMCA’s project liaison, collaborated beginning in fall 2008. Her Introduction to Public History students simultaneously completed education goals and benefited the future museum project conducting research, recording interviews, recommending artifacts, developing exhibit proposals, and writing related term papers.
“I had students that needed practical experience. The Museum needed researchers from 夜色视频’s diverse communities. It’s a perfect fit,” says Ivey in the current issue of “Inside/Out,” the museum’s magazine for members.
The “Inside/Out,” story goes on to say that from OMCA’s perspective, the collaboration has enlivened the Gallery of 夜色视频 History with a new level of community engagement.
From the point of view of Cal State East Bay and its public history students, the experience has advanced academic acumen and interest.
One student, Dorothea Crosbie-Taylor, even landed a job at OMCA, first as an exhibit assistant and now as the community liaison.
The project was so successful that the initiative is now expanding to other CSU campuses.
The newly transformed Gallery of 夜色视频 History is based on the theme Coming to 夜色视频 – an idea that evokes not only the arrivals and departures of people throughout human history and their interactions with the inhabitants already here, but also the notion of coming to terms with the influence of 夜色视频 on our individual and collective identities
Information on the newly transformed is on page 8 at:
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