Thursday, September 26, 2024

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Arizona State Museum's They Don't Love You Like I Love You: Indigenous Perspectives on Sovereignty consists of five exhibits curated by members of Native Nations in Arizona. Look at their process for developing exhibits highlighting contemporary voices, arts and creative interpretation of social justice solutions - including tribal sovereignty, water rights, and historic influencing their lives today. Discussion addresses how ASM initiated the process and stepped aside to allow curators' vision and voices come to life.

Learning Format: Active Learning

This workshop will walk participants through John Simmons’s “Things Great and Small” and help them develop and think about what needs to be included in their own Collections Policy. Participants should be able to leave with an outline of a Collections Policy.

Learning Format: Conversation

Do you wonder what corporations are looking for when partnering with museums? Have you filled out countless sponsorship request forms without success? Join us for a panel discussion with museum development and philanthropic giving professionals to learn what makes for successful partnerships and tips for establishing (or maintaining) one at your institution.

Learning Format: Active Learning

How might care theory and praxis cultivate a sense of belonging between university students and museums? What does care theory and praxis look like currently in university art museums? This session will explore how one art museum became a site for cultivating care and belonging through two different approaches to audience engagement. Participants are invited to reflect on the role of museums and museum education while practicing acts of care.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Learning Format: Conversation

Municipal Museums have a unique relationship when working with Tribal consultation. As Museum professionals, we play the role of envoys from our Council and City Management and Tribal representatives are envoys for their Council and Tribal Management. As such, we are formally negotiating between two world views and two sovereign Nations. We will use recent examples of consultation regarding the role museums play, including name changes, the development of programming, exhibits, and more. 

Join your fellow directors, trustees, and leadership team members in this special reception.

$40 per ticket

Sponsored by DLR Group

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Learning Format: Active Learning

University, museum, and community partners will share how this cohort of learners created geographically dispersed Augmented Reality (AR) experiences around the theme of community in the Borderlands. Discover what AR is, the diverse skills required to create these types of projects, the challenges of using new technology, and how to develop linked content. Hear community partners share what the collaborative meant to them. Attendees will try the Discovering Community in the Borderlands AR experiences.

Learning Format: Conversation

Do you ever find yourself having to lead people who don't directly report to you? Us too. Join this group of museum professionals to engage in conversation about managing and leading in multiple directions with professionalism, humor, and grace. The session will start with a discussion between the panelists, and then move into small group conversations with all participants. It will conclude by reconvening and sharing what we heard, offering best practices for all.