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Oxford and Cambridge Will Oversee Likely Largest UK Repatriation of Looted Objects to Nigeria If the UK Charity Commission approves the plan, it will be the largest repatriation of looted artifacts from Britain.

Plantation tours range widely, from those that do nothing more than celebrate the slave-owners’ opulent house to those that center Black voices.

Condé Nast Traveler Offers an Ethical Guide to Visiting Plantations to help travelers find the tours that combat racism through education.

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/an-ethical-guide-to-plantation-tours

📣 Opportunity Alert! 📣

The Birmingham Museum of Art is now accepting applications for their Museum Teaching Fellowship Program, a paid opportunity that offers significant professional experience in a museum setting.

This opportunity is for passionate and compassionate college and university students from all academic disciplines and levels with the motivation and drive to be the change you want to see.

More info online here: https://www.artsbma.org/opportunities/the-museum-teaching-fellowship-program-call-for-participation/

Careers Artists Careers Internships Volunteers Above: Curator of Art Margaret Lynne Ausfeld leads a gallery tlak. Overview Founded by artists and arts educators in 1930, today’s MMFA staff continues to be a mix of makers, educators, and other museum professionals—a creative collective dedicated to art, ...

We hope to see many AUM faculty, staff, and especially, AUM students at the last screening of the Spring 2022 Political Film Series this Tuesday at 7pm in 109 Goodwyn Hall for a film on a timely topic as antisemitism has been growing across the country and college campuses. Almost two-thirds of young adults in the U.S. do not know that 6 million Jews were slaughtered during the Holocaust. Dr. Eric Sterling who has taught and published on the Holocaust and whose mother is a Holocaust survivor will introduce this 2016 movie.

AUM photography student, Grayson McDaniel, shares some great advice: become a member of the MMFA and support your local artists!

Montgomery Modern member Grayson McDaniel shares his love for the Museum Shop, which showcases unique art available for purchase created by a diverse set of twenty regional artists each quarter. Every purchase made in the Shop supports local and regional artists. When you buy local, you support your local artists—a percentage of each purchase goes back into the community. Join today and experience the art you love with greater access, exclusive programming, and new ways to make connections—plus, you’ll save 10% on all Shop purchases. Receive a $10 discount when you join by May 7th with code SAVE10: https://mmfa.org/support/join/membership/

Signature: Success on Etsy Saturday, March 26, 2022 2 PM CT

6 Critically Acclaimed Films about Artists, from Caravaggio to Frida Kahlo These films, from Oscar-winning biopics to more creative retellings, shed the clichés of what famous artists’ lives are like.