“Curatorial Dreaming workshops foster museum creativity, reflexivity, and innovative collaborations”

Shelley Ruth Butler, PhD

Photo credit: Gabrielle Montpetit

I am a cultural anthropologist who teaches, researches, consults, and writes about museums and heritage sites, with a focus on legacies of colonialism and apartheid in Canada and South Africa. I am a co-editor of Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (MQUP 2016) and author of the widely taught museum ethnography Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa (University of Toronto Press 2011).  An award-winning teacher, I offer Curatorial Dreaming workshops to museum professionals, researchers, students, and community groups.