Join Dr. Daniela Fifi as she presents her new book, Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums. The book's scope includes regional Caribbean collections and global Caribbean collections in the United Kingdom and the United States. This talk will feature insights in museum education, and cultural representation through highlighting case studies, written by five museum professionals and scholars, fundamentally shaping conversations on cultural heritage spaces within the Caribbean and the diaspora of Caribbean nations. Moderated by Dr. Alison Heney, VP of Learning and Public Programs.
Dr. Daniela Fifi, Ed.D. has worked as an arts educator and a curator in galleries and museums in the United States and the Caribbean. She is a doctoral graduate in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York and a Master of Arts in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester, UK. Daniela has been awarded several fellowships and awards during her career, including the New York State
Assembly - Caribbean Life Impact Award, The Museum Education Research Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellowship at The Miriam and Ira D Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. She has taught art education, world art history, and human development in the arts at The City College of New York and New Jersey City University. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief at ViewFinder: Reflecting on Museum Education E-Journal, and also served on the editorial board of Art Education, the official journal of the National Art Education Association. Her editorial work also includes being the Managing Editor of Small Axe Visualities: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism, a project of the Small Axe Journal (Duke University Press). In her spare time, Daniela enjoys listening to music and being in nature.
Alison Heney, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Vice President of Learning and Public Programs for the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA, and a researcher in literacy and cognitive development with over 20 years of experience in designing and executing arts curriculum for academic and community enrichment. Her area of specialization is in K-12 education and Latin American/Latinx/Chicanx art. Alison also serves as a program co-chair for MuseWeb, the largest international conference dedicated to technology and innovation in the cultural heritage sector and is an editor for the National Art Education Association publication Viewfinder, an online peer-review journal dedicated to social justice in museum education.