Thursday, September 26, 2024

Learning Format: Conversation

Intentional choices must be made to balance priorities and resources related to the broad work of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility).  Boise Art Museum will share a case study, with touchable and tangible samples, of their four-year journey to assess its practices and to create new interpretive initiatives and affordances to increase access and inclusion, in an effort to welcome people who are blind, deaf, or neuro-diverse.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Learn how to create a responsive program - a term to describe events created in response to visitor needs and behaviors. Rather than solely creating programs born from the museum's initiatives, responsive programs - whether about wellness, activism, or access - center visitor engagement. Attendees will participate in a short responsive program, hear examples from SAM, LACMA, and The Huntington, then engage in a workshop to create a responsive program for their organizations.

Learning Format: Conversation

Cultural planning provides a process for collaborating across sectors and ensuring that museums better meet community needs and deepen their community impact by identifying high-level priorities. This session will focus on how cultural plans benefit from museums as leaders in the planning process, how museums benefit from participating in cultural plans, and how planning across institutions deepens impact for all museums in an ecosystem.

Learning Format: Conversation

This session focuses on recognizing the important role Museums play regarding community engagement and representation. Attendees will evaluate their experiences with engaging and supporting community and learn new methods for approaching, engaging, and working with the community to build new relationships. The session will be presented as a conversation between moderator, presenter, and attendees and serve as an example of one possible forum of community gathering session.

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Join your registrar and collection colleagues on learning about how to ship objects from your collection to and from another cultural institution or incoming loans for your exhibitions. This session will cover basic how to, terminology, resources, and provide templates for your use.  Airfreight (international and domestic) and trucking shipment options will be covered.

Learning Format: Conversation

Museum leaders have so many different kinds of people they must take care of that they often forget to take care of themselves. Putting on our own oxygen masks first can feel counter - intuitive, but it ’ s a cornerstone of sustainable leadership. It also models to others what well - being can look like. Join us for an honest convers ation about our struggles, strategies, practices, and – on a good day – triumphs as we try our best to keep sane in the insane world of museum leadership today.

Come for the tabletop games, stay for the stories! Like a game of ping pong, many museum professionals bounce between sometimes odd or indirect pathways to get to where they are going. Hang out, share your own odd jobs stories, or learn about others’ journeys. We will learn with and from each other on how to identify and communicate your unique transferrable skills, and what could take you to the next level. Open to all museum professionals - reminisce or get inspired!

$15 per ticket, includes one drink 

Hoping to meet some new people at this year’s WMA Annual Meeting? Join us to play Business Card BINGO! At this happy hour session, grab a BINGO card and start moving around the room. As you meet new people, ask them some questions from your BINGO card. When you find a match, attach their business card to that space. We’ll supply the BINGO cards, the adhesive, and even some blank cards – just in case you don’t have any yourself. 

$15 per ticket, includes one drink 

Get to know colleagues working in small museums from around the region over drinks. In addition to providing an opportunity for attendees from small museums to get together in a relaxed setting, we will also discuss the possibility of creating a Western Region small museum group that could function as a special interest group (like the Registrars), creating programs, conference session proposals, and other activities.

$15 per ticket, includes one drink 

Get to know colleagues working in collections from around the region over drinks. Registrars Committee Western Region has organized this happy hour to give attendees the opportunity to discuss a variety of collections care and registration topics with other attendees, including but not limited to: policies and procedures, emergency preparedness and response, and ethical concerns.

$15 per ticket, includes one drink