ASU Museum presents two family events at Delta Symposium XVII April 9
SU - Jonesboro: ASU Museum presents two family events at Delta Symposium XVII
April 9
The Arkansas State University Museum will offer two special family activities on
Saturday, April 9, at 10:30 a.m. in conjunction with ASU's Delta Symposium XVII: The
Delta in Print, Image, and Sound. Presented by ASU's English and Philosophy
Department, they are free and open to the public. The ASU Museum is located at 320
University Loop West Circle.
The first program, HiSTORY TIME, designed for families with children ages 2-7 years old,
offers different points of view on white settlers' expansion into Native American territory.
The second presentation, a tour titled "One Place-Many Creatures and Cultures," is a
tour aimed at families with children ages 6-16. Participants will explore the museum's
exhibits and artifacts through the lens of the inhabitants-animal and human-that have
lived within the Arkansas Delta across time. Common and divergent cultural elements
will be explored through hands-on activities.
The ASU Museum will also host a special Delta Symposium XVII session on Thursday,
April 7, in ASU's Reng Student Services Center/Student Union's Mockingbird Room.
This session will also address museum exhibitions and the interpretation of multiple
viewpoints. Experts from the museum, public archaeology, and State Parks and
Recreation professionals will discuss legal and ethical issues they must consider
when planning and presenting public programs. Dr. Marti Allen will report how the
Native American Graves Protections and Repatriation Act has affected process and
delivery of public programs focused on Native American artifacts, discuss challenges
encountered when dealing with unprovenanced collections, and explain ethical issues
that can arise when using public money or private funds for programs. Dr. Julie Morrow
will share poignant local examples of ethical issues involved in interactions with
landowners, collectors, and donors. Cindy Grisham, who worked for almost four years
at the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza before her recent appointment as
a park interpreter at Parkin, will share relevant experiences from both sites-including
the challenge of how to develop public presentations that represent multiple
perspectives on controversial cross-cultural issues.
For information about the ASU Museum, contact Dr. Lenore Shoults
(lshoults@astate.edu), at (870) 972-2074.
Delta Blues Symposium XVII is sponsored by the Department of English and Philosophy
at ASU.For more information, contact symposium co-chair Dr. Gregory Hansen
(ghansen@astate.edu), Department of English and Philosophy, at (870) 972-3043, visit
the website http://altweb.astate.edu/blues/, or see ASU's NewsPage releases at
http://www.astate.edu/a/asunews/.
