This multi-disciplinary panel will share how their partnership challenged them to discover the math in something significant to their organizations – a craft, photograph, or an auction. This project pushed the panel to find commonalities with atypical partners, unify under a concept, and...
Multimedia Forum
Presentation | 2017: Edmonton, Alberta
Video | 2016: Phoenix, AZ
Noelle Kahanu
Assistant Specialist, Public Humanities & Native Hawaiian Programs Department of American Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Under a Jarvis Moon: Contemplating the Personal and Professional
Noelle's WestMusings follows her journey from finding her grandfather’s 1937 logbook in the...
Video | 2016: Phoenix, AZ
Jaclyn Roessel
Education and Public Programs Director at the Heard Museum
Power of the Confluence: Co-creating Fluid Community Partnerships
Jaclyn’s WestMusings focuses on the reverence many indigenous communities have for the confluence of two rivers and how that can inspire greater community engagement...
Video | 2016: Phoenix, AZ
Niki Ciccotelli Stewart
Chief Engagement Officer at Crystal Bridges Museum
The Crooked Path
Niki has worked in the arts for more than twenty years, as an artist, educator, and administrator. Niki's WestMusings reflects on her "wonderfully crooked" career path and what she has learned from her non-linear...
Video | 2016: Phoenix, AZ
Dave Stroud
Director of Interactive Exhibits at Thanksgiving Point
FrankenBikes
In his WestMusings, Dave shares how his recycling hobby of cutting up and reassembling castoff bicycles revealed much more than just eye-catching art vehicles, it affected his relationship to everything.
