Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Resistance and Remembrance
Civic Spaces are Neccessary Spaces
The Elisabet Ney Museum , a Site of Conscience in Texas and an Addressing the Silences project participant, has partnered with a refugee collective to expand its arts programming at various forums, from public
In the summer of 2024, ICSC and project participants hosted a three-part webinar series to share lessons learned from the project. Through these platforms, participants were able to share their challenges and strategies for developing trust with community partners, reflect upon what “sharing power” truly means in practice and address internal resistance to change, among many other topics. As an organization that prioritizes knowledge sharing, ICSC has made the webinars available on its YouTube channel , where they were viewed nearly 200 times in the two months following their release. The project will conclude with production of a toolkit in 2025 to help even more organizations catalyze change in the years to come.
events to local news cooking segments. Interestingly, the Museum began the project thinking that language was their biggest barrier, but an incident during a bonding activity in which the site and the collective visited another museum changed their perspective. During the visit, one of the women refugees touched a textile display and was quickly admonished for it by a staff member. Understandably, the refugee was startled – she had never been to a museum before. At that moment, the Site of Conscience decided to prioritize creating a more welcoming environment for immigrants and refugees at the museum.
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