Events

VRA 2024

Emma Carter, Rights Specialist at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, will present a session, “Grounding Indigenous Rights in Redesigning Newfields’ Online Collections,” at Visual Resources Association 2024, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This in-person session will highlight how Newfields integrated the Local Contexts system into their new online collections portal:

“Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has incorporated Local Contexts as part of its standard protocol for object research and collection care. Newfields is committed to being an ethical steward of its art collections and Local Contexts provides tools to better our standards of care and communication with Indigenous communities. I will explain how Local Contexts’ Cultural Institutional Notices have been incorporated into our collection management system and describe our future plans for Labels and consultations with Indigenous communities. Newfields continues to work to be in compliance with NAGPRA regulations and to be a better partner to Indigenous communities, locally, nationally, and internationally.”
See more details and register on the VRA 2024 website.

Upcoming Events

2025 National Council on Public History Annual Meeting

mars 26, 2025
, 13:00 UTC
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On March 26, Local Contexts, in partnership with UMass Amherst and the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science staff, will present the workshop, “What is Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Why Does it Matter for Public Historians?”, at the 2025 National Council on Public History (NCPH) Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada. This workshop introduces …