The Dialogue
@ The Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, September 7th, at 6PM
“Join us Wednesday, September 7, as the MCA hosts the fourth iteration of The Dialogue, our seminal fall event that turns the MCA Theater into a live chat room. Together we delve into pressing issues of diversity and inclusion facing museums today. This year we focus on Millennials, the generation born between 1980 and the early 1990s that is changing the way we experience everything. As this generation comes of age, values related to self-identity, including notions of race and culture, are shifting profoundly. Museums and cultural organizations must attempt to understand these profound changes and their implications to develop a new sense of where and how people produce and engage with art. This might mean that organizations, such as the MCA, should not only rethink who and what we present but also the very ideologies that underlie our collecting, presentation, and interpretive activities.
Grounded in new ethnographic research of local Millennials that will be unveiled by the Museums in the Park Research Committee, this dynamic evening will feature Hennessy Youngman, You Tube’s most followed art theorist, Chicago’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, Michelle T. Boone, and our newest curator, Naomi Beckwith, formerly of The Studio Museum in Harlem. Join us for the panel and the following reception for a family-style dinner and continuing dialogue.”
Program and reception $35
Program only
Nonmembers $10
MCA members $8
Students $6
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