Jewish Museum of Maryland (Baltimore, MD 21202-4606)
Tracie Guy-Decker (Project Director: August 2018 to May 2022)
GI-264588-19
Exhibitions: Implementation
Public Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals (outright + matching):
$75,000 (approved)
$75,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
4/1/2019 – 5/31/2020
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Scrap Yard: Innovators of Recycling
Implementation
of a traveling exhibition, website, curriculum, and public programs exploring
the history of the scrap industry in America.
The Jewish Museum of Maryland (JMM) is developing Scrap Yard: Innovators of Recycling, a temporary, traveling exhibit that will allow visitors to explore the evolution of the American scrap industry over 250 years through the stories of people who created it – immigrants, their descendants and their successors. In addition to the 2,000-sq ft, experiential exhibit exploring scrap recycling through the lenses of history, sociology and technology, JMM intends to publish a companion book and free interpretive brochure, create a website, plan public programs, collect and curate select oral histories, and develop educational curricula. The exhibit will feature historical objects, oral histories, texts, images, multimedia, and interactives. Resources will be drawn from JMM’s collections, the archives of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), and a variety of other sources. Scrap Yard opens at JMM in 2019 and begins a national tour in 2020.
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