Yinz World Podcast interviews Gina Winstead of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Yinz World Podcast sat down with the delightful Gina Winstead, VP for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. They talked everything from diamonds and cockroaches to submarines and taxidermy! They learned a lot about the museums and the important role Gina plays there! They also pitch a film idea for the Pittsburgh version of Ocean’s Eleven — “Yinzer’s Eleven.” Please enjoy this stimulating convorsation!
Gina Winstead Fact Check:
1. Book that Bethany referenced about wolf hunting
Hold the Dark by William Giraldi.
Purchase and read Hold the Dark here.
There's also a Netflix movie adaptation of the book, starring Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgård and Riley Keough.
2. South Park Pittsburgh - buffaloes:
3. Statistics for African American ppl in Pittsburgh for infant mortality and maternal mortality:
Infant Mortality: There is a large disparity between rates of infant mortality for black babies and white babies in Allegheny County. Infant mortality for black babies occurred at a rate of 14.9 per 1,000 births while the rate for white babies was 3.3. https://pittsburghpa.gov/equityindicators/documents/EI_Data_Report_on_Priorities.pdf
Maternal Mortality: Black women in Pittsburgh are more likely to die during pregnancy than their peers in 97 percent of U.S. cities, according to a sweeping new report from the city's Gender Equity Commission. https://www.wesa.fm/identity-justice/2019-09-17/maternal-mortality-rates-for-black-women-in-pittsburgh-higher-than-in-most-other-u-s-cities
4. What are the psychological effects of being black - for example, being desensitized to pain due to racism.
Research study in the National Library of Medicine: The overview of the research highlights the multiple ways in which racism can affect mental health. Other conditions linked to race and ethnicity can also play a role in shaping the mental health of disadvantaged populations, and we need to understand these stressors in their full complexity. Future research must characterize this full range of risk factors and resources that may be unique to, or more prevalent among, stigmatized racial and ethnic populations and identify how they combine with each other, over the life course, to affect patterns of mental health.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6532404/
Article in Mental Health America: Black and African American Communities and Mental Health: https://www.mhanational.org/issues/black-and-african-american-communities-and-mental-health
5. The game boy effect or impact - need to look into this one more.
6. Sesame Street movie filmed in museum
Don't Eat the Pictures - Filmed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Watch it here
7. Repatriation of art and artifacts from museum (nazis, colonizers, native american):
There are "increased calls for institutions around the world—including the Smithsonian, which announced a new ethical returns policy last year—to repatriate stolen cultural artifacts." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-us-repatriates-77-looted-artifacts-to-yemen-for-now-theyll-live-at-the-smithsonian-180981688/
In recent years, government officials, both in the US and abroad, have increased scrutiny on the provenance of objects in the Met’s collection, echoing public calls for the repatriation of looted objects. Dozens of allegedly looted artifacts totalling tens of millions of dollars have been seized from the Met by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and returned to countries including Greece, Italy, Egypt, and Nigeria. Last September, the DA’s office executed its sixth warrant of 2022 to seize artifacts from the museum. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/metropolitan-museum-of-arts-repatriation-news-1234654313/
Timeline of all the art and artifacts repatriated this year: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a42660309/repatriated-artwork-timeline-2023/
8. Gina's brother Joshua's band: Metric