Art

Art in Medicine, Introducing the Ko Iki Mini Museum

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There’s a new addition to the great lawn on the John A. Burns School of Medicine campus. Inspired by the free petite library movement that made reading accessible to millions, there’s a similar structure intended to provide inspiration and accessibility to art for all who pass by.

The Ko Iki Mini Museum (Ko, for her surname and “iki” for “small” in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) was installed on the JABSOM campus earlier this month by JABSOM alumna Dr. Kathryn Ko.

“I think art should be free and accessible to all. Sometimes people get intimidated going into a museum, so my idea was

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Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program Opens to All Races

The Latino Museum Studies Program undergraduate internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino has been opened to students of all races after the settlement of a lawsuit that said the program amounted to discrimination, CNN reports.

The lawsuit was filed in February by the Texas-based American Alliance for Equal Rights against the museum’s director, Jorge Zamanillo, and the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Crosby Kemper. The suit claimed that the program hadn’t hired any non-Latino interns since it began operations in 2022.

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