Rebecca Friend, a recent graduate of 杏吧原创 University’s Curatorial Studies Graduate Diploma and Public History’s MA, has had her research highlighted in a recent article written by Taia Goguen-Garner and featured in TheGraduate@杏吧原创 newsletter.
Friend’s research studied how children and childhood have been represented in Canadian commemorations like monuments and memorials.聽Along with this research, Friend also designed a participatory project with a group of children at an elementary school in Montreal where they were asked to design their own monuments to Canadian childhood.
She credits her work in co-curating an exhibition with fellow Curatorial Studies students Morsels of Memory: A Taste of Ottawa鈥檚 Food History as inspiration.
Friend says, 鈥淚 knew from this experience that working on exhibitions and in the field of public history more broadly was a path that interested me,鈥� shared Friend. 鈥淗owever, I found that children and youth were largely excluded from these projects, both as a target audience and as co-producers on the projects. My interests therefore turned to seeing how I could meaningfully include children and youth in my public history practice and engage their input on topics that pertain to their daily lives.鈥�
Here we see Rebecca at the opening of Morsels of Memory exhibition March 2019.聽 聽Congratulations on your recent graduation! You can read the full article here .