Museum Current: “Collecting & Exhibiting Comics” with Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Curator Caitlin McGurk
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Museum Current: “Collecting & Exhibiting Comics” with Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Curator Caitlin McGurk
Wednesday, November 2
6:00–7:00 pm
Register at https://bccte.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvf-iqqj8iHtHYZbXS-ByUlipCpNz7t5Y4
As part of its ongoing Museum Current lecture series, focused on recent scholarship, discoveries, and trends in Museum Studies, and as a complement to the McMullen exhibition, American Alternative Comics, 1980–2000: Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond, art historian and curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Caitlin McGurk, will present a virtual lecture on the history of cartoon museums, and the challenges and advantages of conserving, collecting, and exhibiting comics collections.
Caitlin McGurk is the Associate Curator for Outreach at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and an assistant professor at Ohio State University, where the library and museum is held. McGurk takes part in many of the library & museum's different functions, including developing the library's collection, organizing exhibits, and leading research using the library's extensive collection of American comic art.