Mentoring as a duoethnographic exhibition: Our journey as art museum researchers

The study of curation is a growing research area moving away from solitary creative activities such as curating exhibitions into more participatory and collaborative endeavours (Love and Villeneuve 2016; Smith 2012; O’Neill 2012). In keeping with this evolving idea of curation, we employed duoethnographic dialogue to explore and co-curate our mentor-mentee experiences as an exhibition nestled within the cultural boundaries of art museum education and higher education. With objects guiding and rooting the discussion, our exhibition includes such themes including ‘Finding a Comfort Zone’, ‘Co-writing’ and ‘The Emerging Scholar and Edu-curator’. Throughout the article we also encourage the reader to consider his or her own mentor–mentee relationships through the exhibition themes as well as the potential for duoethnographic curation, and encourage participation.