Cultural Curators: Black Voices in the Museum Industry
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Are you interested in learning more about the many cool careers that exist within our museum? This Black History Month, join us for a career panel highlighting the professions and experiences of three Black Field Museum staff members from various different fields of work, including advice to young students that may be interested in working in a museum.
Join us in James Simpson Theatre on the lower level for this insightful opportunity.
Are you interested in learning more about the many cool careers that exist within our museum? This Black History Month, join us for a career panel highlighting the professions and experiences of three Black Field Museum staff members from various different fields of work, including advice to young students that may be interested in working in a museum.
Join us in James Simpson Theatre on the lower level for this insightful opportunity.
This free event is part of our Black History Month celebration.
Meet the Panelists
The panel will feature Exhibitions Project Manager Angelica London, Senior Multimedia Creative Latoya Flowers, and Assistant Curator in African Anthropology Foreman Bandama, PhD. The discussion will be moderated by Bridgette Russell, Senior Director of Marketing & Communications.
Angelica London
Angelica has been at the museum for two years in March and came from the Education world. She was an Elementary School Art Teacher in Englewood. As a Project Manager, she coordinates everything needed to get ready for a show opening, whether it’s traveling to us from a different museum or planning everything from scratch when we’re creating the exhibition. She is the middle-woman for all communications to outside people. She also helps to keep our team members (Designers, Production staff, etc) organized and on budget by providing deadlines for things to be completed.
Latoya Flowers
Latoya has over 10 years of experience as a media producer in the museum industry. She’s currently a Senior Multimedia Creative at the Field Museum where she collaborates with exhibit designers, exhibit developers, illustrators, motion graphic artists, lighting designers, music composers and sound designers to create short films and immersive experiences for traveling, temporary and permanent exhibitions. She formerly worked at the Adler Planetarium as an Exhibition Media Producer. Latoya was named on the Blooploop50 Immersive Influencer list for 2024.
Foreman Bandama, PhD
Foreman is an African archaeologist and curator who studies African pre-industrial civilizations. He has specializations in ceramics, glass beads, archaeometallurgy and heritage studies. His work blends conventional material culture studies and archaeometallurgical analyses to explore the history, innovations and technology of African societies in southern Africa. He draws liberally from African theory and his lived experience as a product of a crafting rural Tsonga family from Zimbabwe.
Bridgette Russell, Moderator
Born and raised in Chicago, Bridgette Russell was thrilled to join the Field Museum as Public Relations Director in 2021 to oversee the development and execution of PR initiatives and campaigns. She is currently Senior Director of Marketing and Communications, l
