Voices and Images: Making Connections Between Identity and Art

Catherine Stainton

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Art museums are environments that offer visitors both a challenge and an opportunity that other kinds of museums do not: the occasion to engage deeply with works of art that have been selected and presented according to particular standards and motives. Through the very act of going to visit galleries with curated displays, visitors are challenged to develop or refine a sense of meaning for themselves that is connected to particular kinds of artwork. Curators enter a tacit dialogue with the visitor that shapes this experience by presenting exhibitions that carry multiple messages. These messages are determined both by the particular goals of the curators, be they political, educational, or historical, and by the constraints imposed by the material to be displayed. Museum visitors come to view these exhibitions with their own “entrance narrative” that allows them to make meaning from exhibitions as they look through the lens of their own personal experiences and identity (Doering & Pekarik, 1996; Falk, Moussouri, & Coulson, 1998; Silverman, 1995). What visitors bring with them adds to their experience in the museum and helps to supply their side of the tacit dialogue.

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