How museums are changing to embrace a more inclusive vision of American artUS museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories in light of movements against racism, violence, and the erosion of human rights here and abroad. Self-reflection and transformation have emerged in tandem with a focus on incorporating antiracism and decolonization in museum practice. Fundamental to these shifts is the idea that one cannot tell the story of American art without Native American, African American, Asian American, and Latinx art. Featuring innovative scholarship and approaches from art history, anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, history, and ethnic studies, the curators and scholars in this volume write about transforming theory and methodology into museum practice as they reflect on the challenges and possibilities for expanding the canon of American art. Beyond the shortcomings of traditional curatorial approaches, they demonstrate how sustained dialogue, community engagement, and curatorial collaboration have fueled important changes to art curation. A progress report and a how-to guide, this collection considers the flawed past and inclusive future for how American art is displayed and taught.

DRAFTIntroduction. Beyond the Land Acknowledgement, by Michael W. Hartman & Jami C. Powell Section 1: Complicating Histories: Curating Across Disciplinary Boundaries1. Collaborative Methodologies for an Expanded American Art: This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, by Morgan E. Freeman & Thomas H. Price2. A Site of Struggle, A Methodology of Accord, by Janet Dees & Alisa Swindell3. Generative Collaboration: Toward a More Expansive American Art, by Karen Kramer & Austen Barron Bailly, with Michael Hartman & Jami Powell Section 2: Reframing Collection Practices and Care4. Reflection and Representation: Native Art Acquisitions for the 50th Anniversary of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, by Anya Montiel5. Recontextualizing and Reckoning Historic American Art, by Mindy N. Besaw6. Feke's Kincemoss: Collaboratively Rewriting a Colonial Painting, by Layla Bermeo & Roger Paul Section 3: Interrupting Colonial Structures7. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?": The Aesthetic and Curatorial Politics of Invitation and Interruption in Imperial Museums, by Kirsten Pai Buick8. Imagining Otherwise, by Hazel V. Carby9. Braiding, Stitching, Sweeping: Black Feminist Domesticity and Art History, by Alexandra M. Thomas10. Tyrus Wong's Asian Americana, by Yinshi Lerman-TanConclusion. An Invitation, by Michael W. Hartman and Jami C. Powell