@curatoriologist profile picture
Elena Gonzales @curatoriologist

Author, Exhibitions for Social Justice (@routledgebooks), Curator of Civic Engagement & Social Justice @ChicagoMuseum, Aquí en Chicago, she/ella, my views

Joined September 2009
  • Tweets 2,408
  • Following 540
  • Followers 585
135 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Elena Gonzales@curatoriologist
16 Apr 2024
Very honored to be a part of this cohort with #AquíenChicago @ChicagoMuseum Thank you, @NEHgov! #latinos #history #museum #Chicago
National Endowment for the Humanities@NEHgov
16 Apr 2024
NEH announces $26.2 million for 238 humanities projects across the U.S. Grants will support exhibitions, films, digitization of historic collections, sustainability projects at museums & archives, advanced research, & programs in higher ed. tinyurl.com/5fpch689 #NEHgrant
1
2
6
1,031
Proud to have worked with this team of great researchers on this piece highlighting #Latino military service and research strategies through #HistoryDay. They truly went the distance!
ChicagoHistoryMuseum@ChicagoMuseum
22 May 2024
As Memorial Day approaches, we're highlighting @chihistoryday participants Josue Contreras & Joshua Mendez, a teacher-student team who created a Silent Hero® profile on PFC Felipe Sanchez (1907–45) as part of a @NationalHistory program. Read the post: ow.ly/n6Wc50RRyu7
Color scan of a draft card for "Felipe Sanches" from 1941.

ALT Color scan of a draft card for "Felipe Sanches" from 1941.

Color photograph of a young Latino man on the left and an adult Latino man on the right. They are both wearing black tshirts & red lanyards. Behind them is an Illinois flag and part of a gray battleship.

ALT Color photograph of a young Latino man on the left and an adult Latino man on the right. They are both wearing black tshirts & red lanyards. Behind them is an Illinois flag and part of a gray battleship.

Color photograph of a young Latino teen & an adult Latino man standing in front of a stone wall with names on it. The young man on the left holds a small USA flag and a red rose. The man on the left holds a small Hawaiian flag.

ALT Color photograph of a young Latino teen & an adult Latino man standing in front of a stone wall with names on it. The young man on the left holds a small USA flag and a red rose. The man on the left holds a small Hawaiian flag.
2
159
Can't wait for this!
ChicagoHistoryMuseum@ChicagoMuseum
4 Apr 2024
On Thurs., 4/25, 7–8:15pm, join us on Zoom as Delia Fernández-Jones of @MSU_HistoryDept presents “Telling Our Stories: Using Historical Scholarship to Combat Black and Latinx Displacement in Grand Rapids, Michigan.” Free; RSVP required: ow.ly/zNy850QJ0XG
1
100
This is collaborative work involving a lot of long term stewardship. Many thanks to Jamie and all of my Collections and Curatorial colleagues for this vital work.
ChicagoHistoryMuseum@ChicagoMuseum
10 Apr 2024
New on the blog: CHM registrar Jamie Lewis writes about how the Museum is ensuring continued #NAGPRA compliance, enhancing practices regarding the care & interpretation of collections, & acknowledging Native tribes as experts of their own histories: ow.ly/v26h50RcosK
Color photograph of a museum gallery showing glass cases with objects & images hung on walls.

ALT Color photograph of a museum gallery showing glass cases with objects & images hung on walls.

1
2
184
Thanks #NCPHUHS2024! It has been educational! Safe travels to all.
1
96
S32 #MelodyHunterPillion How to we leverage our own amazing histories and storytellers? ex #oralhistories Advertising is storytelling, and the real stories can counter it. #MarcusPSmith the museum *is* this community's activist response. #NCPHUHS2024
1
40
S32 #MarcusPSmith New residents should ask themselves: Is it possible to be a part of the social fabric that exists rather than disrupt it? #NCPHUHS2024
1
46
S32 #MarcusPSmith Public historians need to fight for communities that are trying to make their histories public. #NCPHUHS2024
1
35
S32 Q A: Is the act of preserving and presenting as good as we can do, or is there hope for policy change at any level? There is space for policy change. Community members need to be informed, invested in the fight, and *able to participate.* #NCPHUHS2024
1
55
S32 #MarcusPSmith Dissertation = history of Black grassroots museums in the agro-urban and rural south. Can't wait to read it! #NCPHUHS2024
31
S32 #MelodyHunterPillion Heirs' property: Poor people without wills may have lots of heirs. If one heir sells even a portion of the property, it opens the whole property. Important to note re #AfricanAmericans, poor white folk, #indigenous folks, and more. By design. #NCPHUHS2024
27
#ProtectBellevueMD bellevuepassagemuseum.org/ S32 #NCPHUHS2024

Bellevue Passage Museum

bellevuepassagemuseum.org
23
S32 #MarcusPSmith 5th gen residents of Bellevue, Dr Mary and Dennis DeShields = founders of the #museum. They see the museum as a center for energy justice - technologies that can save the average resident $. #EnvironmentalJustice is a strategy for affordable housing #NCPHUHS2024
21
S32 #MarcusPSmith Development goal: erasure of the extant and historical Black community. Resident's response to meeting between community and developer: "it was absolutely disgusting because we had no options whatsoever." #NCPHUHS2024
31
S32 #MarcusPSmith Bellevue was self-sufficient till incorporated against their will and now facing #gentrification. (Decline of industry and skilled labor--> infrastructural neglect--> environmental degradation--> real estate speculation.) #NCPHUHS2024
26
S32 #MarcusPSmith The Bellevue #museum will facilitate social change in a changing landscape in the tradition of other African American grassroots museums. Black communities have been discussed as places to be left rather than in terms of their value. #NCPHUHS2024
22
S32 #MarcusPSmith Discussing the development of the Bellevue Passage Museum in Bellevue, MD, due to break ground this December to commemorate this historically African American maritime community. #NCPHUHS2024
21
S24 #MeganMiller Shadow / participate with scientist in the field as possible. Shared experience breaks the ice and offers base of experience for conversation. Then ask: Why do you stay engaged? Why do you do what you do? #NCPHUHS2024
25
S24 Q: how to best help #climate scientists make their work intellectually accessible in the #oralhistory setting? After agreeing on baseline questions for interviewees, #MeganMiller classmates honed questions to more specificity for each interviewee. #NCPHUHS2024
16
Once the #oralhistory is recorded, the relationship continues through #accessibility, ongoing engagement in the topics and communities. In the process of developing a collaborative plan for #stewardship #AquíenChicago @chicagomuseum #NCPHUHS2024
16
Load more