This year the Western Museums Association (WMA) received a number of well-qualified nominations for the 2013 Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award for Exhibition Excellence.
Nominees included the Anchorage Museum True North, Craft & Folk Art Museum This Is Not A Silent Movie: Four Contemporary Alaska Native Artists, Fullerton College Centennial Legends and Legacies: The First 100...
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August 20, 2013
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...
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...
August 13, 2013
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...
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...
August 8, 2013
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...
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...
August 6, 2013
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...
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...
August 1, 2013
A closer look at the Western Museums Association 2013 Annual Meeting host city…
By Chrissy Upton
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) is a lucky institution indeed. Located in the heart of Salt Lake City, UMOCA is surrounded not only by the beautiful landscape, but also by a supportive and talented artistic community. In fact, Martin Prosperity Institute named Salt Lake City the 8th most...
By Chrissy Upton
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) is a lucky institution indeed. Located in the heart of Salt Lake City, UMOCA is surrounded not only by the beautiful landscape, but also by a supportive and talented artistic community. In fact, Martin Prosperity Institute named Salt Lake City the 8th most...
July 30, 2013
By Louise Yokoi
I’d heard that the Museum of Craft & Design (MCD) had recently relocated to the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco a few months ago. When I discovered that MCD and Etsy were collaborating together for Etsy Meet & Make: Craft Lab at MCD events, I knew I’d found the perfect opportunity to go check out the Museum’s new home, get a much-needed dose of creativity, and learn...
I’d heard that the Museum of Craft & Design (MCD) had recently relocated to the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco a few months ago. When I discovered that MCD and Etsy were collaborating together for Etsy Meet & Make: Craft Lab at MCD events, I knew I’d found the perfect opportunity to go check out the Museum’s new home, get a much-needed dose of creativity, and learn...
July 26, 2013
A closer look at the Western Museums Association 2013 Annual Meeting host city…
By Iris Moulton
A blank canvas waiting to be marked
Drawing Lab, which opened May 17, 2013 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), is inspired by the idea that mark-making is a fundamental human impulse and that there is no wrong way to do it. Within this hands-on, interactive exhibition, museum visitors of any age...
By Iris Moulton
A blank canvas waiting to be marked
Drawing Lab, which opened May 17, 2013 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), is inspired by the idea that mark-making is a fundamental human impulse and that there is no wrong way to do it. Within this hands-on, interactive exhibition, museum visitors of any age...
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