Program Perspectives

By Aldona Jonaitis
A first glance at the Western Museums Association 2013 Annual Meeting Program
One session to attend at the Western Museums Association (WMA) 2013 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City is Reflections and Projections: Perspectives on the Museum Profession. We – Gail Anderson, Art Wolf, Stephen Olsen and Aldona Jonaitis – have together had almost 140 years of museum experience. Our...

At the 2013 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, the Western Museums Association (WMA) proudly launches a new programmatic feature: WestMusings | Ten Minute Museum Talks. Based on TED Talks’ model, WestMusings is an unconference program of short, rehearsed, and engaging presentations on museum related topics. WestMusings will provide an important platform for tomorrow’s museums leaders to speak...
By Keni Sturgeon

Conference registration…check! Hotel and plane reservations…check! Evening events booked…check! My part in the session on collaborative exhibits completely ready to go…well not quite check, but getting there.
With a little over one month to go until the Western Museums Association (WMA) 2013 Annual Meeting kicks off in Salt Lake City, I find myself growing excited to see how the...
By Miriam Works
A first glance at the Western Museums Association 2013 Annual Meeting Program
If you’re looking for a proven avenue to earn revenue while engaging and educating visitors, look no further than your museum store. A well operated store that is thoughtfully designed and laid out and stocked with skillfully displayed, mission related merchandise is a valuable tool for deepening visitor...
By Margaret Kadoyama
Last Fall, I was contacted by Steve Comba, Co-Chair of the 2013 WMA Annual Meeting Program Committee, and he invited me to serve as a Program Committee member for the 2013 conference in Salt Lake City. I was honored to be asked, and I agreed to serve. Here are my reasons why, and here’s how they are playing out in the October conference:

WMA is made of up a great group of...
By Hikmet Sidney Loe
The Western Museum Association (WMA) is excited to bring visitors to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty during a Pre-Conference Tour at the 2013 Annual Meeting. Read more about what’s in store…
Photo by Hikmet Sidney Loe, www.hikmetsidneyloe.com


By the time the American artist Robert Smithson determined he wanted to create a monumental earthwork in the late 1960s, he was...
By Karen Stark
Coming to Salt Lake City for the Western Museums Association 2013 Annual Meeting? Here’s your chance to participate in pre-conference intensive workshop based on Utah’s award-winning program that helps small museums learn how to create inexpensive interpretive exhibits that excite, engage, and educate visitors.
All across the West there are small museums full of historical and...
By Steven Olsen
As my three daughters were growing up, one of their favorite songs began, “Make new friends and keep the old; one is silver and the other is gold.” This line could be the slogan for the upcoming Western Museums Association (WMA) 2013 Annual Meeting, October 9-12, 2013 in Salt Lake City. Those of you who haven’t been to the “Crossroads of the West” since WMA was first here in 1996...
By Carrie Snow
Dear Fellow Western Museumers,
For those of you who haven’t become all ‘a Twitter’ at the mere mention of “WMA SLC 2013,” let me say I completely understand. While I currently reside in downtown Salt Lake City, I am not a native Utahn, I was born and raised in Southern California so I can empathize. My parents are Utah natives, so Utah became the standard summer vacation...
By Steve Comba
With Registration now open for the Western Museums Association (WMA) 2013 Annual Meeting, we thought you might also want access to the Preliminary Program. The WMA Program Committee has been deciding on and preparing for the WMA 2013 sessions since January. Let me explain…
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It was 9 degrees in Salt Lake, maybe, felt much colder,
Wintery view from the hotel...

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