Students in Elizabeth Maloney’s Fall 2017 course, AS.389.374 Museum Lab: Creating Participatory Spaces at the Baltimore Museum of Industry created an interactive exhibition that explores the personal side of work, asking: why do we work? what is our work? how does it shape us?(2018-2019). The exhibition also features portraits of Baltimoreans in their workplaces, juxtaposing contemporary photographs by Christopher Myers and historic images from the BMI collection.
Learn more:
- https://blog.orselli.net/2018/09/why-we-work-messy-and-collaborative.html
- http://www.wypr.org/post/why-we-work-new-exhibit-baltimore-museum-industry
- https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/2018/5/17/why-we-work-opens-baltimore-museum-industry