NEWS
A Message from the Co-Creators of Look at Art. Get Paid:
Over the course of 2020-21, we found our lives and circumstances deeply transformed on many fronts, and concluded our work together as Look at Art. Get Paid. We are keeping this website available as an archive and hope that Look at Art. Get Paid. can serve as a model for equitable community-centered feedback processes and institutional transformation. We want to express our deepest thanks to all who have supported the growth of this project from a small student-led experiment to a government-sponsored program. Please check out this list of resources to follow some of our comrades doing related work. You can follow our current independent work here: Maia & Josephine (link forthcoming).
Publication Highlights
Creative Minds Out Loud Podcast | January 2020
Hyperallergic Interview with Laura Raicovich | June 2019
RISD Museum Project Page | June 2019
RISD Museum Website Intervention | May 2019
Viewfinder Article | December 2017
News Log
University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst Talk, April 2021
Co-creator Josephine Devanbu discussed museums, art, cultural accessibility and Look at Art. Get Paid as an inspiration for the UMass Campus Climate project “Making Art Yours”.
Mass Cultural UP Initiative Panel, October 2020
What is Access Now? Universal Participation (UP) Initiative Online Discussion with Look at Art. Get Paid. Co-creators Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu, and StageSource Executive Director Dawn M. Simmons.
New England Museum Association News, Summer 2020
RISD Museum staff reflect on All-Staff Dialogues, Look at Art. Get Paid. and other topics relevant to social equity in “Confronting Ourselves Together: All-Staff Dialogues at the RISD Museum.”
BOMB Magazine Interview, March 2020
Co-creator of Look at Art. Get Paid., Maia Chao, is interviewed for BOMB Magazine by curator, Simon Wu.
Podcast Interview with the Massachusetts Cultural Council, December 2019
Executive Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Council interviews LAAGP co-creators, Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu. LAAGP will partner with The Council & art museums in Massachusetts.
After School Session at the New Museum, November 2019
This November we’ll be guest artists to a session of the Experimental Study Program (ESP), an after school program run by the New Museum.
Workshop at CUE Art Foundation, November 2019
We’re leading a workshop on art and labor at the CUE Art Foundation as part of the Admin ⚙️series. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
November 1, 6:30-8:30PM
137 West 25th St, Ground Floor, New York, NY
Designer-in-Residence at PMA, October 2019
Co-founder Maia Chao will be a Designer-in-Residence for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Futures Therapy Lab as part of Designs for Different Futures.
October 24 & 26, 2PM–4PM
2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA
Panel on Immigration and Labor in Providence, Rhode Island, October 2019
In October we sat on a panel about the relationship between immigration and the evolution of workers’ rights and labor relations. The panel, part of Providence Public Library’s Discussion Series, was moderated by Christina Bevilacqua with support from Taylor Polites.
Interview in Hyperallergic, June 2019
We had the pleasure of speaking with curator Laura Raicovich about Look at Art. Get Paid. The interview was published in Hyperallergic and includes news about our upcoming plans to launch across a cohort of art museums.
Panel at Brown University, April 2019
This April we participated in a Long Table discussion at Brown University about the ethics of funding in the arts titled "Give and Take: Examining the Intersection of Arts, Ethics and Philanthropy.”
NAEA’s Annual Convening at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, March 2019
We’re leading a workshop about centering marginalized forms of knowledge (March 13) and talking on a panel for the NAEA’s Journal, Viewfinder (March 16). Registration required.
Artist Talk at the ICA @ U. Penn, March 2019
We talk accessibility in art institutions, the fine line between artistic and administrative labor, and knowledge politics with artist, Carol Zou. Free and open the public.
March 7, 6PM-7:30PM
118 S. 36th St. Philadelphia, PA
Artist Residency at Haverford College, Fall 2018
We received a Mellon-Funded Artist Residency at Haverford College’s Hurford Center for Humanities. We are working collaborating with the Political Science and Visual Studies Departments, along with non-profit Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance.
Partnership with NYU Steinhardt, Fall 2018
This semester we’re partnering with NYU Steinhardt’s Visual Arts Administration MA Program, where we are working with graduate students to develop research for Look at Art. Get Paid.
Museum as Site for Social Action Convening, Oct 2018
This October we attended the MASS Action Convening at the Minneapolis Institute of Art with 60+ museums seeking to align with more equitable and inclusive practices.
Interview on The Whitest Cube Podcast, July 2018
Two museum workers of color, Ariana and Palace, have launched The Whitest Cube Podcast to critically reflect on their work and the conditions of dominant art museums today. They interviewed us about LAAGP and the thinking behind it.
Image: Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background) 1990.
The Paris Review, May 2018
Daniel Penny covers Equitable Met and Look at Art. Get Paid. in How Much Should the Met Cost You?
Open Engagement: Sustainability, Queens Museum, May 2018
Look at Art. Get Paid. presents at Open Engagement (OE) is an annual artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. In addition to exploring the intersections of art and activism, this year’s conference explores the expansive theme of SUSTAINABILITY and features presenters Lucy Lippard and Mel Chin.
Paper Magazine, April 2018
Paper Magazine covers our collaborative project with Hello Velocity, Equitable Met in "One Groups Mission to Halt the Met's New Pricing Model," by Claire Valentine.
Artnet News, March 2018
Artnet News covers our collaborative project with Hello Velocity, Equitable Met in "An Activist Group Thinks the Met's Ticket price Should Depend on Your Tax Bracket. Would it Work?" by Henri Neuendorf.
www.equitablemet.com, March 2018
Check out a collaborative project we launched with Hello Velocity in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's admissions policy change. March 2018.
Essay in Viewfinder Journal, December 2017
An essay authored by the team of Look at Art. Get Paid in the National Art Education Association Museum Education Division's Journal, Viewfinder. Issue 5: Centering Marginalized Voices, December 2017.
Interview with v.1 Journal, May 2017
"Extending Invitations to the RISD Museum." RISD's Graduate Student Publication interviewed co-founder Maia Chao.
The Inclusive Museum Conference, September 2017
María Paula García Mosquera presents her essay on Look at Art. Get Paid, "The Unfamiliar Place: Latinx Communities and the Museum," Manchester, UK.
Visitor Studies Association Conference, July 2017
Co-Founder Josephine Devanbu presents, "Look at Art. Get Paid: Accessibility and Cultural Critique," in Columbus, OH.
New England Graduate Media Symposium, May 2017
Maia Chao presents Look at Art. Get Paid. on the "Shapes of Violence" Panel. Boston, MA.
Interview with Rhode Island School of Design, January 2017
Robert Albanese interviews Maia Chao and Josephine Devanbu in "Reassessing the Museum Experience."