11:15 am – 12:30 pm
From Hesitation to Action: Building Advocacy Confidence in Museums
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Learning Format: Active Learning
Nevertheless, she/they/he persisted: strategies for staying the course in turbulent times
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Learning Format: Conversation
Reciprocal and Transactional Relationships
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Learning Format: Conversation
What is the difference between reciprocity and transaction? This session explores how these approaches to developing relationships can effect everything from the project planning, community engagement, to staff satisfaction.
Beyond the Refrigerator Magnet: Brand Strategies that Fulfill Promise
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Learning Format: Active Learning
Elevating Your Mindset in Collections
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Learning Format: Conversation
Elevating Your Mindset in Collections will dive into the benefits of maintaining collections for the public as well as ourselves. Collections staff work hard and are passionate, but many times behind the scenes work is overlooked and under appreciated (even unintentionally so). The Registrars Committee Western Region wants to bring some joy back into the work we do and celebrate our wins, big and small.
Injustices Righted: Exhibit Development Driven by Community Curators
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.
Balancing Goals and Growth Between Museums and Corporate Partners
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.
Cultural Planning and Museums: Cultural Ecosystems and Community Impact
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.
Shipping Art & Artifacts 101
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.
Sustainable Museum Leadership: Cultivating Well - Being from the Inside - Out
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.