11:15 am – 12:30 pm

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: 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: 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: 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.

Learning Format: Active Learning

How important is risk-taking in learning, developing skills, and building emotional intelligence? Can museums encourage visitors to assess and take risks responsibly? Many exhibits help visitors consider their decisions, and the risks they are willing to take. Whether the challenge is physical, creative, intellectual, social or emotional, exhibits and programs present safe spaces for new ideas and skills. This session will feature environments where visitors feel safe while encountering challenges and evaluating their risk.

Learning Format: Active Learning

In this session, learn how four different museums build and deliver their yearly programs. Join us for stories and tips from four different organizations, ranging from small to large, and learn the different ways we create and manage our programs. Hear ideas on building strategy, identifying audiences, balancing the offerings, assessment, and more. We’ll share our experiences, favorite tools, processes, and plenty of real talk.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Artists Myisha Arellano and Michelle Glass will share the community engagement process of Interwoven Stories, a "quilted" mural created in collaboration with over 200 Pasadena-area community members over the past year. The 150-square-foot mural was created during public workshops in partnership with Armory Center for the Arts, NAACP Pasadena, Pasadena Community Job Center, Day One, Rose City High School, Community Arms, and the Hastings Branch Library. This project was initiated as part of the Artist at Work national program modeled after the WPA.

Learning Format: Conversation

Learning Format: Conversation

What are best practices for advancing equitable practices in museums? This interactive session introduces new tools and resources focused on fostering dialogue within museum teams about DEAI (diversity, equity, access and inclusion) practices and action.  Currently in development by CCLI (Cultural Competence Learning Institute) and featuring data from a recent museum-wide study, the tools include Actionable Insights for museums to leverage institutional strengths and take action toward inclusive practice for their institutions.