1:45 pm - 3:00 pm

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.

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

This facilitated conversation will focus on how museum professionals are relinquishing authority to Indigenous communities to be more inclusive, equitable, and accessible institutions. Panelists will bring different perspectives and experiences, where we share how we are shifting ideas of authority and power to source communities. Attendees are encouraged to share and participate in this open conversation.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Despite decades of raising awareness, gender-based issues in the museum field remain; inequality, discrimination, and sexual harassment are often daily occurrences. Join members of the Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM) steering committee to tackle issues YOU are seeing in your workplace right now. Together, in small groups, we will listen to an issue raised by a colleague and brainstorm solutions. You will leave with new ideas for approaching current or future challenges and with a renewed sense of solidarity with colleagues.

Learning Format: Active Learning

When was the last time you learned something from someone that wasn’t your age? Intergenerational programs at museums unite participants in meaningful experiences. This session explores engagement strategies with a focus on the importance of creating community, mindful teaching, dialogue, and the exchange of artistic traditions. Join us for a dialogue and hands-on intergenerational art making experience. 

Learning Format: Active Learning

In this interactive writing workshop, you will practice writing about your projects through an active writing session. All museum professionals are welcome to learn the basics of grant proposal writing and receive practical instruction on how to approach funders. Everyone can benefit from writing practice, whether you are in a curatorial, programmatic, collections, executive or development position. No preparation is required, just bring something to write with and be ready for some creative thinking.

Learning Format: Active Learning

Explore the delicate balance between programming and preservation in museum galleries. Discover new approaches to activate your galleries for events and education programs, all while keeping your objects on display safe. Our panel of museum professionals will share their stories of innovation and creativity, challenging traditional collection/gallery rules to enhance visitor experience. From breaking outdated norms to making new ones, learn which rules are worth breaking and which are worth keeping.