Hell yea. Some inspiring Twin Cities news! Standing in solidarity with Tattersall workers ✊ Encourage management to recognize the union! citypages.com/restaurants/ta…

89/ The Art Institute of Chicago #Museumlayoffs : Art Institute lays off 51 ft staff from across depts, a week after staff organized to avoid layoffs: “Several of those who signed the letter, which also offers alternatives to layoffs, have since been laid off. “ artnews.com/art-news/news/…

More museum workers unionizing during the pandemic: joining PMA_Union is a new union drive across four Pittsburgh museums!!Around 500 staff involved. Follow them United Museum Workers and stream tonight when they virtually drop off of their union authorization cards!! m.usw.org/news/media-cen…

A lot of museum professionals are wondering how best to be leaders for positive change in the museum field right now. Is pursuing promotion into upper management and the executive ranks the best way, the only way? Our answer:

If you’re worried about the tone of recent museum protests and your vision of change rests on winning the hearts and minds of executives and board members, please read this thread from Chenjerai.bsky.social:

"What we need to do though, is completely reimagine the board and experiment with some new structures." nonprofitaf.com/2020/07/the-de…

Minnesota Museum of American Art has fired longtime executive director Kristin Makholm, who rebuilt the organization from near-bankruptcy and led it into a renovated St. Paul landmark. strib.mn/2DDgb3H

Thank you, Kelly Smith, for giving a few of our laid-off MNHS staff a voice here. I’m among them, and we are hurting and grieving for our colleagues at other nonprofits as well.

#LIVE: New #BlackLivesMatter Mural Outside of #Minnesota's only #AfricanAmerican #History Museum pscp.tv/w/ceIX0jFheVFW…

Mutual aid fund for Walker FOH staff who were laid off last month 🙌 Support this critical work if you're able!

We heard from someone who’s organizing for frontline worker hazard pay at a US museum. They’re wondering: 1. If any museums out there are offering it and if so, how much. 2. If any groups of museum workers are demanding it and what their specific demands are. Reply or dm us!

Very happy to join this effort Dirt! The Annotated Bibliography of Institutional Callouts: a “living archive” (ie please submit new/missing info!) of activism addressing art organizations and institutions. docs.google.com/document/d/18N…

So much labor (paid & unpaid) makes museums possible. I'm thrilled to have a piece about this monkeybicycle today! United Museum Workers SkintMuseumWorkers New Museum Union Twin Cities Museum Collective Art Workers Union 🖼️❤️✊ Art and Labor New Arts Journalism PMA_Union cultureworkers #MuseumWorkersSpeak Museum Detox New Museum Union