{"id":1737,"date":"2015-11-20T00:16:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2016-11-07T23:37:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:37:34","slug":"cma-michael-m-ames-prize-for-innovative-museum-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/cma-michael-m-ames-prize-for-innovative-museum-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology awarded to Ethnographic Terminalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ethnographicterminalia.org\/\">Ethnographic Terminalia<\/a> collective has been awarded the American Anthropological Association Council for Museum Anthropology&#8217;s 2015 Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology.<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;The CMA Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology is awarded to individuals for innovative work in museum anthropology.\u00a0Evaluation Criteria: 1) Creativity: Is the project a unique and creative exploration of museum anthropology\u2019s central themes, tensions, and histories? 2) Timeliness: Does the project say something important about museum anthropology\u2019s current predicaments and unknown future? 3) Depth: In what ways does the project penetrate into the complexity of material culture and the study of it through novel methods and theories? 4) Impact: Does the project have the potential to make broad and lasting impacts in museum anthropology?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">From the Council for Museum Anthropology <a href=\"https:\/\/museumanthropology.org\/cma-awards\/\">Website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ethnographicterminalia.org\/\">Ethnographic Terminalia<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Dr. Fiona MacDonald<\/strong>\u00a0(Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Indiana University \u2013 Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Arts &amp; Humanities Institute (IAHI)),\u00a0<strong>Dr.\u00a0Kate Hennessy<\/strong>\u00a0(Assistant Professor of Media at\u00a0Simon Fraser University\u2019s School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT)),\u00a0<strong>Dr.\u00a0Craig Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0(Assistant Professor of Cultural Forms and Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin),\u00a0<strong>Dr.\u00a0Stephanie Takaragawa\u00a0<\/strong>(Assistant Professor of Sociology at\u00a0Chapman University), and\u00a0<strong>Trudi Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(artist and visual anthropologist at the\u00a0University of Victoria), were awarded for their innovative curatorial and exhibition work on\u00a0<strong>Ethnographic Terminalia<\/strong>, a curatorial collective. For the past seven years,\u00a0Ethnographic Terminalia has\u00a0curated group exhibitions in tandem with the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association\u2013in cities such as\u00a0Philadelphia, New Orleans, Montr\u00e9al, San Francisco, New York, and\u00a0Chicago. These off-site, innovative installations have blurred the boundaries of museology, ethnography and contemporary art, through collaborations with ethnographers, cultural theorists, and over 110 artists to date, and through creative uses of space, materials, and new media. Michael Ames was unwavering in his commitment to \u2018de-school\u2019 the museum, to revolutionizing ways of knowing and learning within and beyond the walls of the museum. Ethnographic Terminalia is exemplary of Ames\u2019 idea of de- schooling the museum, destabilizing authoritative structures and creating a relational web of proactive and self-motivated individuals who, in this case, are pushing at the institutional and disciplinary boundaries of museums, art and anthropology. They have\u00a0offered radical, alternative ways of thinking through things and representing different forms of knowledge and praxis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethnographic Terminalia collective has been awarded the American Anthropological Association Council for Museum Anthropology&#8217;s 2015 Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology.\u00a0&#8220;The CMA Michael M. 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