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Item FROM EXPLORATION TO EQUITY: A MUSEUM’S JOURNEY TOWARD DECOLONIZATION(2018-12) Arias, Catherine; M.A. in Arts AdministrationIn the context of a societal shift calling upon institutions to be more equitable, the movement to decolonize museums requires new approaches to collecting and presenting human remains and cultural artifacts. Nearly thirty years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the San Diego Museum of Man is radically modifying its relationship with indigenous communities of the Kumeyaay Nation, on whose homeland the museum is situated and whose ancestors and belongings were once held by the museum without permission. The museum’s bold new policies and programming focus offer a complex, but necessary, model for the field.Item Prepare a Table: Creating Equitable Places Through Culturally Based Food-Sharing(2020-05) Arias, Catherine; McFarland, Terence; MA in Arts AdministrationCommunities are increasingly pressuring professionals in the field of arts and culture, and in the multi-sector realm of creative placemaking, to ensure that their projects are inclusive and equitable. Culturally based food-sharing offers arts administrators powerful ways to democratize arts experiences, celebrate the existing rich characteristics of a place, strengthen social infrastructure, and support communities’ self-determination. An analysis of projects by artists and culture-bearers who draw on shared meals and heritage-based foodways; anthropological and sociological studies about the transformative social bonding that occurs through food-sharing; and research into the state of the field of creative placemaking shows that the interests of artists and communities are reflected by including culturally based food-sharing in creative placemaking plans.