To be in transit is to be human. No one does well staying still too long. This past year has shown us more than ever that nothing is ever permanent. In this journal we explore the different ways that people, museums, and institutions can be considered in transit. We are addressing questions of trad| Bridge
Guide To { ... } is for anyone engaging with museums today, whether at the very beginning of your career, years into it, or peering in from the margins. It is meant to be revisited. A guide does not expire when we memorize the route; it waits patiently, until the landscape shifts and we re| Bridge
YOUNG ADULT BOOKS SERIES Written by Dick Farkas with drawings by M.A. Papanek-Miller and designed by Jessica Larva, Making Way: Sailing Into The Revolutionary Storm is an adventure story that takes place on the waterways of colonial America, on a schooner (sailing ship) named Commerce. The sto| Bridge
FWD: Museums Journal - Redacted, Alternate Rabia Tayyabi Cover A notable absence, a muting, making invisible. Redaction extends beyond the simple black squares as incomplete redactions – stamps marked with ‘deleted’ covering the text– white squares, and handmade notations. Each black s| Bridge
MUSEOLOGY / MUSEUM STUDIES Museums, like all other social institutions, reflect the tensions and contradictions of their times. The Museum and Exhibition Studies (MUSE) Graduate Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago proposes that these museum problems are deeply seeded in the field and| Bridge
CONTEMPORARY ART / LITERARY STUDIES / PHILOSOPHY / DANCE Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries is a philosophical study of equality as binding principle by art-makers across disciplines, and how they view their work situated across unrestricted spectrums of social| Bridge
FWD: MUSEUMS: “Power/Potential” Power: Having control or authority to dictate or influence people and organizations’ behavior and actions. Potential: Having the capacity to build or develop a positive outcome in the future. Power and the potential for power shape the r| Bridge
MUSEOLOGY / MUSEUM STUDIES Museums Are Dead. They fell victim to torch-bearing mobs, looters, and the vociferous contempt of political and religious groups. But perhaps also through insular pedagogies, inequitable practices, and a lack of representation or transparency, museums contributed to th| Bridge
DEATH & DYING / END OF LIFE CARE / MEMOIR Camille Grafer describes the journey she and her mother took after Mama Rose was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Recalling the life of her mother — a widow raising her only child in Chicago in the 1950s — Camille tells the story of her own transitions| Bridge
CONTEMPORARY ART / VETERAN ART / SOCIAL RESEARCH / RECIPES Tea is something that we all share. —Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo torture survivor Invitation to Tea compiles 48 tea recipes, stories, and traditions, one for each of the countries that have had citizens extralegally held at the U| Bridge
MUSEOLOGY / MUSEUM STUDIES How do museums respond to the urgency of the moment? In what ways can they be critically transformed to foster social justice work? Fwd: Museums, an inclusive, cross-disciplinary journal, shares interventions, experiments, and community dialogues within and out| Bridge
HOW DO MUSEUMS RESPOND TO THE URGENCY OF THE MOMENT? In what ways can museums be critically transformed to foster social justice work? Fwd: Museums, an inclusive, cross disciplinary publication, shares interventions, experiments, and community dialogues within and outside of museums. Our contributo| Bridge
FWD: MUSEUMS: “Power/Potential” Power: Having control or authority to dictate or influence people and organizations’ behavior and actions. Potential: Having the capacity to build or develop a positive outcome in the future. Power and the potential for power shape the r| Bridge
MUSEOLOGY / MUSEUM STUDIES Strangers in strange lands. Heroes sent to right what is wrong. Workers separated from the fruits of their labor. Scapegoats in times of fear and change. Aliens and alienation are ever present tropes in our cultures, our politics, and our lives. This issue of Fwd: Muse| Bridge
A notable absence, a muting, making invisible. Redaction extends beyond the simple black squares as incomplete redactions – stamps marked with ‘deleted’ covering the text– white squares, and handmade notations. Each black square signifies absence. It serves as a reminder for enforced forg| Bridge