2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Museums and cultural institutions are often quick to celebrate the progress they have made toward racial equity, while struggling to dedicate time to pause and reflect on what might prevent them from moving forward. Museums & Race offers this session to help museum practitioners foster new dialogic skills to have more truthful conversations, as well as practical ways to move from naming the...
Come hear from three organizations in various stages of implementing shared leadership models: Five Oaks Museum, San Diego Museum of Natural History, and Nesika Wilamut (Portland area non-profit). They will discuss successes, pitfalls, and new ways of approaching leadership in non-profits. Bring your questions, as there will time at the end of the session for Q&A and group discussion.
Writing grant proposals for Foundations and Government Agencies require collaboration between multiple staff from development, curatorial, collections, education, and our community partners. This session will combine individual grant writing instruction with exercises to guide us all toward more collaborative work. Audience members will leave this session having learned how to approach your next...
The diverse histories, cultures, perspectives, and experiences of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) diaspora are often missing from or kept to the edges of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) efforts in the museum sector. This session will provide participants an opportunity to consider and reflect upon the narratives that continue to impact...
