WestMuse Blog

Putting a puzzle together is a good analogy for approaching, organizing, and accomplishing your work week.

The New Year is a good time to reset. We all start over with fresh mindsets, new resolutions to keep, and a sense of excitement as we look ahead. But across the next 12 months, there can be challenges and stressors that follow right along.

Written by 2022 Wanda Chin Scholarship Recipient Amy Chaloupka

The last large public event I attended the weekend before the pandemic shut everything down in March 2020 was a painting symposium in Portland. So, it felt right returning to PDX for WMA’s annual meeting in October—my first large professional gathering in over two years.

Written by 2022 Wanda Chin Scholarship Recipient Jessica Hougen

This was the first conference I’ve been to since before the pandemic. The last one I went to was the California Association of Museums (CAM) in March 2020. That one was great, but weird. We all knew something was happening but we didn’t yet know the severity of the situation. It was business as usual, with plenty of hand sanitizer to go around.

Written by 2022 Wanda Chin Scholarship Recipient Ali Smurawa

I was near the tail-end of my first year as a full-time museum educator when I applied for the Wanda Chin scholarship. I knew that I wanted to (and needed to) attend a museum conference, but which one, and how? WMA’s theme Forward spoke to me, and as I sent off my application, I waited in anticipation for a reply. If awarded, then this was the conference that would set the bar for all future conferences because I had never attended one before.

Written by 2022 Wanda Chin Scholarship recipient Billie Jean Guerrero

Written by 2022 Wanda Chin Scholarship Recipient Christopher Olsen

Written by 2022 Wanda Chin Scholarship Recipient Hayley Noble