Would you read a white supremacist’s diary? How about save it from destruction? Today, FIU’s Washington Avenue cultural sites roll up their sleeves to tackle a messy subject: curating and educating around relics with heavy histories. Find out how museum and arts professionals juggle the priorities of preservation, ethics, and our personal discomfort when it comes to objects that keep secrets and hold hatred. Free and held on Zoom.

Keynote by Rebecca Friedman, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab director

The Jewish Museum of Florida presents:
Artifacts that carry difficult histories, including KKK objects (speaker: Jacqueline Goldstein, JMOF curator)

The Wolfsonian presents:
Strategies involved in showcasing Nazi propaganda posters and paraphernalia (speaker: Jon Mogul, Wolfsonian associate director of curatorial + education)

Miami Beach Urban Studios presents:
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa, an icon co-opted by clashing cultures (speaker: Jacek J. Kolasinski, Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator founding director and MBUS researcher)