In response to our first UCLculturelab exhibition, Johanna Z-Sharp & Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman are working with young people to curate their experiences of #Power and what it means to them.

We’ll be sharing their creations in the new year. Watch this space!

📷 Ashante Thomas & Kimberly Johnson

I just had the chance to visit Ode to the Ancestors at Fort Jesus in Mombasa. It was fantastic to see the recognition given to all those Kenyan archaeologists and heritage professionals, and I was also happy to see so many familiar faces on the wall.
Johanna Z-Sharp Sherry Davis

UCLculturelab 2/ The #CuratingPower exhibition is now open UCLculturelab!

Open Wednesdays at 2-5pm, the 1st Saturday of the month, or email [email protected] to book a visit.

Find out more: buff.ly/3TNEbGb UCL East campus Johanna Z-Sharp Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman Paige Michel UCL Special Collections

Episode 3 of 'Only Collections in the Building: Money, money, money.... #podcast out now from Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp Johanna Z-Sharp and Heba Abd el Gawad Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد (series produced by Maria Christodoulou).

#OnlyCollections #LocalAndGlobal

🎧 bit.ly/OCIB3

🎧One to add to your playlists!

Episode 3 of Only Collections in the Building explores all things museums and money. How it's spent, how financial procedures can reinforce institutional power, and how perceptions of museum funding affects public trust.

Find out more👇

What a pleasure to work with colleagues UCL Anthropology Grant Museum of Zoology UCL Art Museum UCL Institute of Archaeology Friends of the Petrie Museum UCL Special Collections with Johanna Z-Sharp to curate “power!”…opens October 11 UCL East campus

A new #podcast series ‘Only Collections in the Building’ from researcher & #museum activist Heba Abd el Gawad Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد & Associate Professor Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp Johanna Z-Sharp produced by Maria Christodoulou

🎧 bit.ly/OCoB24

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New Podcast from Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp Johanna Z-Sharp and Heba Abd el Gawad Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد (series produced by Maria Christodoulou).

'Only Collections in the Building Episode 2: I don’t accept Horniman’s gift'

#OnlyCollections #Podcast #LocalAndGlobal

🎧 bit.ly/4bUIk1P

Watching #culturelab unfold UCL East campus: a new space for community engagement with students and researchers currently curated by me & Johanna Z-Sharp working w/all the UCL museums and collections Grant Museum of Zoology UCL Art Museum UCL Institute of Archaeology UCL Anthropology UCL Special Collections
Petrie Museum

Curating Power Collective: Johanna Zetterstrom Sharp Johanna Z-Sharp @UCL IoA has been working w/ the Curating Power Collective, a group of young curators, exploring what makes them feel powerful through research & creative making.

📲 Find out more here - bit.ly/3TM8EUX

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Honoured to give a guided tour of Ode to the Ancestors exhibition to MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP along with Johanna Z-Sharp and @nickmerriman01

Ode to the Ancestors is at Horniman Museum and Gardens until 3rd December 2023.

#ReclaimingAfricanHistory

A few weeks ago we concluded our UCL East Masterclasses! 👏

In our final session, Associate Professor Johanna Z-Sharp from UCL Institute of Archaeology spoke about museums and their colonial legacies!

Learn more about our BA in Heritage, Sustainability and Society here👇
bit.ly/3K7Y1GM

Loving these conversations that make transparent & reflect upon museum ‘backstage’ practices. Thank you for sharing the ongoing work of our Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Mobilising collections for institutional change’. Podcast 3 of Only Collections in the Building series 👇

“Museums… have been built on a colonial entitlement to accumulate and interpret African histories without recognizing the gaps and untruths this perspective has brought and reinscribed.” [Johanna Z-Sharp]
Watch our latest #LetterToAYoungArchaeologist video: bit.ly/447tYHz

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Job Alert: Curator/Senior Curator Americas National Museums Scotland Permanent, Full Time, Deadline 02/07, if interested please DM to discuss. Please retweet MEG Laura Van Broekhoven Johanna Z-Sharp SRU Dr Ali Clark Museum of Anthropology at UBC Jack Davy Nisga'a Museum
vacancies.nms.ac.uk/VacancyDetails…

And the author line up is also stupendous! Check out the contents page, with Dr Jenny Durrant Dr JC Niala Johanna Z-Sharp Ellie Miles is no longer using this site Rosamund Lily West (she/her) Dr Rafie Cecilia & many many more uclpress.co.uk/products/240135

Camella Ramjet Johanna Z-Sharp UCL East campus

UCL East campus UCL Special Collections Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman Johanna Z-Sharp

👇The 2nd episode from Johanna Z-Sharp & Heba Abd el Gawad | هبة عبد الجواد, part of our Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project 'Mobilising Collections Histories for Institutional Change'. Read: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/egypt-horniman… Listen: tinyurl.com/36y4hy5f