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CONFERENCE PROGRAM GUIDE 2014 PUBLICATION AWARD WINNERS Thanks for attending the 96th Annual NEMA Registration Area Conference. This year’s event is packed with more Look over the winners of this year’s NEMA information, more networking, and more fun than Publication Awards. See the best in design, ever. So where do you start? Here’s a quick “how- production, and communication. to” guide that will help you make the most of your conference experience. TALK BACK! Registration Area CONFERENCE APP Ask a question. Make your point. Take a time-out in Put the entire 2014 NEMA Conference at your our “Talk Back” area to ruminate on New England fingertips with our exclusive conference app. You’ll museum issues and provide input to NEMA. (Talk have it all: access to session information, floor plans, Back wall is courtesy of 42 Design Fab; visit them in evaluations, handouts, a conference game (courtesy Booth #42 in the Exhibit Hall.) of MuseumTrek by TrekSolver) and information about Boston/Cambridge. It is available in the App THE DEMONSTRATION STATION Store and Google Play. Download it now! You can Exhibit Hall, Thursday and Friday also access the app on all web-enabled devices. The Demonstration Station is the place to get Simply type in the URL: nema2014.toursphere.com. fast-moving, how-to tips on mastering the latest museum field trends. SESSION HANDOUTS Our speaker handouts will be available online BE SOCIAL instead of in print. You can access handouts via Connect to your community and continue the our Conference App (see above) or print them on conversation by tweeting (#nema2014) and sharing demand at the conference hotel business center lessons learned on NEMA’s social media pages. Be (hotel guests only) on the first floor. visual and share your photos using #NEMA2014 on Instagram. KEYNOTE SESSION President’s Ballroom, Wednesday, 10:45 am INFORMAL SEATING Don’t miss our all-star keynote panelists as they Networking is important at the NEMA conference, discuss the intersection of museums and wellness. so we have places for you to meet up throughout Malcolm Rogers, Carole Charnow, Carl Nold, Dr. the hotel. Try the “Crow’s Nest” nook on the 2nd Lisa Wong, Dr. Joel Katz and emcee Jared Bowen floor, the Zephyr Lounge, and the Charles View promise a thought-provoking discussion with long- Ballroom on the 16th floor (when available). term implications. Enjoy music from an ensemble of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra. NEMA ANNUAL LUNCHEON MEETING Charles View Ballroom, Empress Ballroom, Crispus CONCURRENT SESSIONS Attucks, and Paul Revere, Friday 1:00 – 2:15 pm Conference sessions can fill up quickly and are on a Pre-registration required. first-come, first-seated basis. We suggest arriving at Find out what’s new in your association. Join us as least 5 minutes prior to the starting time and having we present NEMA's Lifetime Achievement Award a second choice ready. celebrating the career of Stuart Parnes.

CONFERENCE AMBASSADORS MAKE PLANS FOR PORTLAND IN 2015! Need help navigating Conference? Look for one Mark your calendar for the 2015 NEMA Conference, of our Conference Ambassadors. They're the ones November 4 - 6, in Portland, ME. Join us for three wearing the cheery yellow buttons and an equally memorable days of city excitement, entertaining cheery smile. They'll be glad to help! events, and museums galore. Session proposals are due February 2, 2015. Please visit www.nemanet.org. EXHIBIT HALL President’s Ballroom, Thursday, 8:00 am to 5:30 pm; QUESTIONS? Friday, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm Visit the NEMA Registration Desk on the Ground Get the latest information on innovative products Floor from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Wednesday and and services for the museum community. The Thursday, 8:00 am till noon on Friday. Exhibit Hall is also a hub of activity for your coffee/ snack breaks, the Demonstration Station and where you pick up your on-site box lunch (pre-registration required). Enter to win raffle prizes from exhibitors and museums. Details in your registration packet. Wednesday, November 19

7:00 – 8:00 am Creating a Successful Homeschool Program NEMA FITNESS Thomas Paine A Morning Pilates Museums of all sizes and genres have seen field Aquarium trip numbers drop in recent years. Homeschoolers Join Dawn Salerno, a certified Pilates instructor and are one audience that could fill the void. This director of education at Mystic Arts Center (NEMA session will present a roundtable discussion with Board), for a rejuvenating stretch and strengthening educators who have successfully created museum class. Bring a mat, bottle of water, and dress in homeschool programs. Table leaders will present the comfortable clothes. format of their programs, how often they run, how many children/families they attract, how they reach homeschooling families, features that work well and 8:00 am – 5:00 pm not so well, and why their program is sustainable. REGISTRATION OPEN Chair: Kaleigh A. Paré, Program Coordinator, Buttonwoods Museum, MA 8:00 – 9:00 am Speakers: Meredith Lamothe, Lead Educator, The WELCOME COFFEE & MORNING TREATS Children’s Museum of New Hampshire; Deb Friedman, Registration Area Senior Vice President, Old Sturbridge Village, MA; Kathleen Hirbour, Education Coordinator, American Textile History Museum, MA; Kara Mahoney 8:15 – 9:00 am Robinson, Student Programs Supervisor, New England NEMA CONFERENCE PREVIEW Aquarium, MA; Lauren Monroe, Director, Worcester Paul Revere Think Tank, MA First time at a NEMA conference? Learn how to make the most of it. Join Amanda Gustin Fundraising with your Board: an Essential Partnership and Ashley Martin, co-chairs of the Young and Emerging Professionals PAG, for coffee and tips for Paul Revere how you can use your time to your best advantage. Museum sustainability requires some level of fundraising and your board plays a key role in your Co-chairs: Amanda Gustin, Public Programs success in this area. Learn concrete strategies to Coordinator, Vermont Historical Society; Ashley Martin, train and motivate your board in annual and special Assistant to the Executive Director, Harvard Museums project strategic revenue generation. What are the of Science and Culture, MA roles in the staff/board partnership and who should do what? Formal, grass roots, and guerrilla methods 9:00 – 10:30 am will be shared by directors and development CONCURRENT SESSIONS officers from museums in various specialties and budget levels. We’ll touch on raising funds for Big Data in Museums – What We Have, special events and thinking about capital campaigns What We Still Need in this comprehensive session. Molly Pitcher Museums have managed large amounts of Chair: Wyona Lynch-McWhite, Executive Director, information for over forty years primarily through Fruitlands Museum, MA (NEMA Board) disparate systems in “siloed” departments. It is, Speakers: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, President & CEO, therefore, hard to see the connections that would Abbe Museum, ME; Kent dur Russell, Curator and logically be present in managing information about CEO, Museum of Russian Icons, MA; Van Shields, people or objects. This session looks at the systems Executive Director, Berkshire Museum, MA in use in museums to explore the relationships that Listening to Art and Culture: Making the may be present. We include the obvious connections Visual World Accessible through Description between fundraising and membership to attendance Crispus Attucks and social media. We also take a deep look at Utilizing audio description samples and hands-on collections management systems to see patterns of exercises, this session will introduce the variety giving that may be leveraged if connections were of ways in which museums of all types, as well made to other “people” data. as other cultural institutions such as parks and Chair: Katherine Burton Jones, Assistant Director of the visitor centers, can use description to create better Museum Studies Program, Harvard Extension School, accessibility for individuals who are blind or have MA low vision. We will also discuss the benefits to Speakers: Cathleen Coyle Randall, Manager of Education sighted visitors. You’ll come away with a deeper Services, Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, MA; understanding of what audio description is and Lauren Vargas, Director of Social Media and Community how it can be used in a museum setting, as well as Strategy, Aetna – Digital + Community Strategy information and inspiration to pursue using more Consultant, MA description in your own museum. Presented by Cultural Access New England (CANE).

2 96th Annual NEMA Conference Chair: Hannah Goodwin, Manager of Accessibility, How do you communicate your “big idea” to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston a broader audience? How do you demonstrate Speaker: Bryan Golud, Director, Accessible Learning and you are integral to the fabric of the community? Assessment Technology, The Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Four museums share how they have used “pop- National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH, MA up” programming and exhibits to address these concerns. Engage in lively discussion with peers A Museum and Occupational Therapy and leave with pop-up planning tools for your own Collaboration for Youth with Autism institution! Spectrum Disorder Cambridge Co-chairs: Cathy Saunders, Director of Education, Providence Children’s Museum, RI (NEMA Board); Dr. Learn about a partnership among two urban public Michael J. West, Director, Maria Mitchell Observatory, school special education programs, a university MA; Meg Winikates, Art & Nature Programs Coordinator, occupational therapy program, and a science Peabody Essex Museum, MA; Ron Kley, Curatorial/ museum. Over six weeks of field trips, occupational Archival Contractor, Vaughan Homestead Foundation, ME therapy graduate students, teachers, and museum educators collaborated to enrich the science Time for the Treasurer’s Report: What My education and social participation of middle school Financials are Trying to Tell Me students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This William Dawes session will focus on the outcomes and successes of It’s no secret that most people volunteering the pilot program, outline next steps, and provide to serve as trustees do not have experience or resources. familiarity with financial statements in their Chair: Diana Deluca, School Visit Coordinator, Museum standard presentation forms. This can pose a of Science, Boston challenge for the proper exercise of oversight Speakers: Ellen Cohn, Occupational Therapy Professor, and governance responsibilities. In this session, Boston University, MA; Gael Orsmond, Occupational you will learn what to look for in the standard Therapy Professor, Boston University, MA presentations produced by accounting software, and discover how such presentations can Pop-Up Programming and Exhibits in the be edited, reformatted, and combined with Community dashboards to make the financial stories more Haym Salomon How do you engage with people who don’t (continued on page 5) know about or aren’t coming to your museum?

KEYNOTE SESSION Hosted by 10:45 am - 12:15 pm President's Ballroom Welcome from Susan Funk, President, New England Museum Association; remarks from Ford Bell, President & CEO, American Alliance of Museums, and NEMA Executive Director Dan Yaeger. 2014 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE PANEL Don’t miss this year’s keynote session, featuring a “dream team” of museum and health care professionals discussing the conference theme Picture of Health: Museums, Wellness, and Healthy Communities. You can plug into the discussion via Twitter using #NEMA2014. Panelists include: Malcolm Rogers, Carl Nold, Dr. Joel Katz, Museum of Fine Historic New Brigham & Arts, Boston England Women’s Hospital

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AD-09-14-0854.indd 1 9/29/14 10:45 AM (continued from page 5) Publish for Peers, Advance your Career William Dawes Engagement Coordinator, Children’s Museum and Posting a blog, composing a newsletter or journal Theater of Maine; Sarah Ann Brockway, Manager of article, or writing a book is a career-booster. It Family and Youth Programs, deCordova Museum and puts your name into circulation and demonstrates Sculpture Park, MA; Elizabeth Leahey, Public Programs your expertise. The act of writing is a form of self- Assistant, The Discovery Museums, MA development requiring reflection, analysis, and Intimate Spaces, Quiet Places synthesis, mental operations that yield insights and Haym Salomon wisdom. Presenters will guide you through the This session addresses meeting the distinctive process of writing and publishing, from developing challenges and exploiting the unique opportunities ideas through determining the right venue, presented by small exhibition spaces. Offering case following appropriate guidelines, and promoting studies from a natural history museum and historic your work. homes in New Hampshire and Maine, panel Chair: Cynthia Robinson, Tufts University Museum members will present successes and failures in Studies Director and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of their efforts to make effective use of small spaces to Museum Education, MA create intimate, reflective, and memorable learning Speakers: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, President & CEO, environments. The session will close with focused Abbe Museum, ME; Phillippa Pitts, Kress Foundation group discussion centered around capitalizing on Interpretive Fellow, Portland Museum of Art, OR the advantages of small spaces. Right the Ship: Governance 101 Chair: Janis Sacco, Director of Exhibitions, Harvard Crispus Attucks Museums of Science & Culture, MA Do you have questions or concerns about Speakers: Cassie Bride, Evaluation Intern, Harvard governance? Do you wish that you could recruit Museum of Natural History, MA; Joanne Flaherty, trustees who help and not hinder? Who embrace Exhibitions Coordinator, Historic New England, MA fundraising? Who leave the day to day operation to Look, Experience, Create: Art & Healing at the staff? Two experienced museum administrators Danforth Art will offer practical advice to trustees and staff Thomas Paine B on governance. This session will have a brief Join education and curatorial staff from Danforth presentation about recruitment and retention of Art to explore how one institution has cross- trustees, then use a question and answer format for departmentally considered the theme of “art and all questions about governance. healing” through exhibitions that include work by Chair: Susan Robertson, Executive Director, Gore Place, MA artists who are using art as a healing mechanism for Speaker: Pam Swain, Trustee, Gore Place, MA their own illness, and artists who are documenting the illness of others with their work. We will also Using Sustained Attention to Read Objects: explore an educational initiative that provides A LAM Collaborative seriously ill patients access to art experiences Molly Pitcher through partnerships with area health care This interactive workshop and discussion led by providers. library, archive, and museum educators will focus on the ways in which the practice of sustained Chair: Amy Briggs, Assistant Director of Visitor attention required for reading objects can increase Learning & Experience, Danforth Art, MA mindfulness while building critical thinking, visual Speakers: Jessica Roscio, Assistant Curator, and Pat literacy, and historical analysis skills. You will Walker, Director of Education, Danforth Art, MA use focused observation to interpret information Mergers and Closings as Strategies for encoded in objects and will experiment with using Success varying collections as entry points to explore a topic Thomas Paine A or idea. This session will provide some basic information on Co-chairs: Emma Frey, Instructor in History and Social the legal and practical aspects of museum closings, Science and Geographer at Large of Sidney R. Knafel mergers, and transactions that are called mergers Map Collection, Phillips Academy, MA; Christine but really aren’t. Using real life examples, we will Jee, Education Associate for School and Community explore models of closings and mergers to continue Collaborations, Addison Gallery of American Art, MA; the mission and preserve the core collection in the Jamie Kaplowitz, Education Associate and Museum face of grave financial challenge – and even when Learning Specialist, Addison Gallery of American Art, things aren’t so bad. MA; Liza Oldham, Instructional Librarian, Oliver Chair: Mark Gold, Esq., Parese, Sabin, Smith & Gold, Wendell Holmes Library at Phillips Academy, MA; MA (NEMA Board) Lindsay Randall, Museum Educator, Robert S. 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Align Graphic Design, LLC (continued from page 7) 2:30 - 3:30 pm Do your exhibits CAREER CONVERSATION Aquarium need a doctor? Join Carole Charnow, President and CEO of the Boston Children's Museum, for a look at her distinguished career and a discussion of working in the non-profit field. For over 30 years, Contact us for a Carole has led cultural non-profits in the US and the UK, overseeing more than 100 professional museum check-up ! theatrical and opera productions, and hundreds of community-based music and arts education programs and events. Charnow joined the BCM in 2010. Under her leadership the museum won the 2013 IMLS National Medal, the nation’s highest honor conferred on museums and libraries for extraordinary service to the community, presented by First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House.

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3:45 – 5:15 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS Building Healthy Museum Boards Crispus Attucks Using the framework of Museum Trustee Association’s publication “Building Museum Boards,” the panel will explore how to cultivate, orient, engage, and inspire the board of trustees. We will share best practices from the museum and board experiences of the panelists. A healthy board believes in the museum’s mission, understands its fiduciary responsibilities, is clear about board giving expectations, and seeks a diverse representation from its community. More boards falter from bad chemistry and poor group Mystic Scenic is the ideal fabrication dynamics than lack of expertise. partner for all your creative endeavors. Chair: Mary Baily Wieler, President, Museum Trustee Association, MD What can we create for you? Speakers: William Peelle, Trustee, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT; James Houle, Esq., Trustee, Portland Museum of Art, ME

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Boston/Cambridge 2014 9 (continued from page 9) Mindful Observation: Art Museums in the Education of Healthcare Professionals display of these historic virtual environments using Thomas Paine B routine projection equipment. In this session we This session will describe a role for art museums will review principles and workflow of digitizing in closing gaps between preparation and practice 28,000 stereoviews for the dual purpose of object in medicine. We will present two case studies of documentation and 3-D projection. We will also collaborations between museums and medical show striking examples from around the world, professional training programs that differ in followed by a thematic presentation of images from approach, but share rigorous focus on critical New England. 3-D glasses provided! thinking and reflection. We will identify healthcare Chair: Bernard Fishman, Director, Maine State Museum needs that art museums are uniquely positioned to Speaker: George Mutter, Professor of Pathology, Harvard address, share models, insights and findings, and Medical School, MA discuss challenges facing museums today when considering healthcare initiatives. The Graduate School Conundrum Chair: Alexa Miller, Founder and Consultant in Arts Haym Salomon and Clinical Learning, ArtsPractica, MA As the museum field has continued to Speakers: Jay Baruch, Associate Professor of Emergency professionalize, museum studies, public history, Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown and other similar graduate programs seem to University, RI; Michelle Grohe, Director of School and multiply at an exponential rate. What’s going on? Teacher Programs, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, We’ll present information from a 2014 survey of MA; S. Hollis Mickey, Assistant Educator, Gallery museum graduates & museum programs, and then Interpretation, RISD Museum; Neal Fleisher, D.M.D. continue with a conversational debate between Director, Pre-Doctoral Periodontics, Henry M. Goldman panelists about the state, practicality, diversity, School of Dental Medicine, MA value, and future of museum studies. We will also invite questions and feedback from the audience. Museums and Healthy Aging Chair: Amanda Kay Gustin, Public Programs Cambridge Coordinator, Vermont Historical Society Senior citizen populations are growing; in New Speakers: Linda Norris, Consultant & Independent England all six states rank in the Top 10 of the Cultural Professional, NY; Cynthia Robinson, Director, oldest in the country. This active discussion is Museum Studies at Tufts University, MA

10 96th Annual NEMA Conference for museum staff who are anxious to address the Chair: George E. Hein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Lesley diverse needs of their older communities, but don’t University, MA know where to start. What range of ability and Speakers: Robin Grenier Ph.D., Associate Professor, accommodation should we be thinking about? What University of Connecticut, Neag School of Education; about “Memory Care?” What does programming Kimberly McCray, Adult Programs Coordinator, look like? What about grants, evaluation and Shelburne Museum, VT; Dr. Christina Smiraglia, assessment? Join us to learn more. Instructor, Museum Studies Program, Harvard Co-chairs: Ann DuCharme, Education Director, Martha’s University Extension School, MA Vineyard Museum, MA; Hannah Goodwin, Manager of Accessibility, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kathleen Holko, 5:30 – 6:15 pm Manager “Lifetime of Looking,” Bruce Museum, CT NEWCOMERS RECEPTION Charles View Ballroom Not Like the Past: Masters of Our Economic Future Whether you’re a first-timer at the NEMA William Dawes conference or a seasoned veteran, join us for a mix- The 2010 book, Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times: and-mingle opportunity where you can give and Leadership Strategies When Economies Falter, called get advice and contacts. Sip some wine with NEMA for “entrepreneurial innovation” and stressed staff and board members. Swap business cards. that nonprofits “are (or ought to be) …. vibrant Get an inside look at the New England museum economic actors with a wide range of revenue community and how you can plug in. Cash bar and options and strategies.” Museums across the hors d’oeuvres. country responded and diversified their revenue Ticket is required. If you did not sign-up in advance, streams into “market-driven” spheres. This session please go to Walk-in Registration, as a limited will explore those responses and the practice number of tickets may be available. of entrepreneurship and creative thinking in Hosted by developing new businesses for museums. Chair: Lawrence Yerdon, President & CEO, Strawbery Banke Museum, NH Speakers: Funi Burdick, Executive Director, Canterbury Shaker Village, NH; Suzanne Olson, Executive Director, Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine

Stump the Lawyers: Legal Issues for Museums Paul Revere EVENING EVENT Eager to set the agenda for a session? Losing sleep over the legal landmines in your museum’s backyard? This panel is back by popular demand and will again present its popular “stump the lawyers” session in which you are invited to ask questions of general interest on any legal topic. Our legal experts will do their best to address your issues, offer practical advice, and recommend what steps to take next. Chair: Nina Zannieri, Executive Director, Paul Revere Memorial Association, MA Speakers: Mark Gold, Esq. Partner, Parese, Sabin, Smith & Gold LLP, MA; Katherine Lewis, Esq. 7:00 ­– 9:00 pm Attorney-Advisor Smithsonian Institution,NY; Johanna Welcome to NEMA 2014! Opening Soris, Esq., Assistant Attorney General, Nonprofit Party at The John F. Kennedy Organizations/Charities Division, Commonwealth of MA; Gilbert Whittemore, Esq., Of Counsel, Rath, Young Presidential Library & Museum & Pignatelli, PC, MA Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 6:20 pm. Bus leaves What’s New? Recent Research in Adult promptly at 6:30 pm. Buses will leave the JFK Library Learning and Museums to return to the hotel at 9:00 pm. Molly Pitcher How do museum professionals, particularly Hosted by museum educators, develop a better understanding of adults and the importance of adult learning theory to museum work? Join four scholars and educators, as they discuss their recent research in adult learning and museum education, and how their findings relate to the 2014 conference theme.

Boston/Cambridge 2014 11 Thursday, November 20

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7:00 – 8:00 am Co-chairs: David Dempsey, Associate Director for NEMA FITNESS Museum Services, Smith College Museum of Art, MA; Marylou Davis, Private Conservator, CT Meet in the hotel lobby. Speakers: Sara Frankel, Senior Curatorial Technician, Enjoy an early morning jog with RunBoston Running Dr. Jean-Francois Gauvin, Director of Administration, Tours. Julie Arrison, a site manager with Historic and Martha Richardson, Collection Manager, Collection New England who moonlights with RunBoston and of Historical Scientific Instruments; and T. Rose RunSalem, looks forward to showing you the city at Holdcraft, Conservator and Administrative Head of sunrise. Highlights of the tour include Beacon Hill, Conservation, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and the Boston Marathon Finish Line, Boston Common, Ethnology, Harvard University, MA and Historic New England’s Otis House along with a lively discussion about using historic landscapes for Museum of Fine Arts and Medical fitness. Tour distance will be approximately 5K and Community Partnerships (Sold Out) will take 60-75 minutes with stops for photos. Meet in the lobby at 8:50 am. The bus will leave promptly at 9:00 am. 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Presenters: Brooke DiGiovanni Evans, Head of Gallery REGISTRATION OPEN Learning; Hannah Goodwin, Manager of Accessibility; Emily Munson, Artful Healing Coordinator; and Robert Worstell, Linde Family Head of Studio and Community 8:00 – 9:00 am Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston WAKE-UP COFFEE AND MORNING TREATS IN EXHIBIT HALL Best Practices in Collections Digitization for the Small Museum (Sold Out) Hosted by Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 9:05 am. Bus leaves promptly at 9:15 am. Co-chairs: Beverly Morgan-Welsh, Executive Director and L’Merchie Frazier, Director, Education and Interpretation, Museum of African American History, MA

9:00 – 9:30 am 8:00 – 9:00 am DEMONSTRATION STATION INDEPENDENT MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS Object Photography for Cultural Heritage AFFINITY GROUP BREAKFAST Collections Aquarium Edward P. Coderre, President, The Digital Ark, RI The IMP PAG will host its annual breakfast meeting to get reacquainted with fellow IMPs, review 9:00 – 10:30 am the group’s accomplishments from the past year, CONCURRENT SESSIONS gather feedback from members on their vision for the group, and set goals for the year to come. Beyond Collections: Alternate Avenues for This interactive session is all about input—from Academic Classes to Use Museums seasoned IMPs who wish to further the visibility Molly Pitcher of the PAG to networking newcomers curious How can university-based museums bring in about being an IMP. Attendance by non-IMP students and classes that do not have obvious affiliates with interest in the group is encouraged. connections to the collections? This session will At the breakfast, the PAG will be seeking a new explore ways to encourage creative academic co-chairperson. If you are interested in serving the uses of the whole museum. Panelists will present PAG in this way, or know someone who might be, examples of ESL students engaging in conversation please come and/or invite other interested people!! and writing, freshman expository writing students Co-chairs: Camille Breeze, Director, Museum Textile exploring ideas of knowledge creation, and biology Services, MA; Matt Kirchman, President/Creative students presenting the wonders of fungi to the Director, ObjectIDEA, MA; Jeanne Koles, Principal, public. Substantial time will also be devoted to Jeanne Koles Consulting, MA discussion groups with all participants. Chair: Wendy Derjue-Holzer, Education Director, 8:05 am – 12:30 pm Harvard Museum of Natural History, MA OFF-SITE SESSIONS Speakers: Kristina Durocher, Director, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire; Kelsey McNiff, Head Special Collections: A Visit to Two Preceptor in Expository Writing, Harvard College Extraordinary Collections (Sold Out) Writing Program, MA Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 8:05 am. The bus will leave promptly at 8:15 am. (continued on page 13) Boston/Cambridge 2014 13 (continued from page 13) This session will showcase The Fenway Alliance, showing how its consortium of 22 cultural, arts, Building a Healthy Volunteer Community and academic institutions promotes neighborhood William Dawes revitalization and community development, as well Join us for engaging roundtable discussions as providing links to higher education and arts/ chaired by a diverse group of museum volunteer cultural engagement for underserved youth and professionals with varied experiences and a their families. Groups will discuss the ideas shared common goal of supporting a volunteer community and consider how they could inspire collaboration that feels valued and who provide positive guest in your area of New England. interactions. We invite you to share best practices Chair: Lesley Pitts, Executive Manager/President of and challenges of managing elderly volunteers, The Mary Baker Eddy Library and Chair of The Fenway volunteer retention and rewards, managing youth Alliance, MA volunteers, and lifelong learning through training. Speakers: Linda Apple, Director, Volunteer and You will come away with ideas to assist you with Community Engagement, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; your own institution’s volunteer program. Kelly Brilliant, Executive Director, The Fenway Alliance, Co-chairs: Nicole Claris, Manager of School Programs, MA; Sarah Welsh, Vice President for Government and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Jeanmarie Santomassimo, Community Relations, Emmanuel College, MA Program Manager Volunteer Services, Museum of Science, Boston Get Organized! Speakers: Emily Bryant, Curator of Education and Thomas Paine B Volunteers, Battleship Cove, MA; Jacquiline Touba, Did you know that the average office employee Founder, World Awareness Children’s Museum, NY; spends 1.5 hours per day looking for things? We are Lace Anderson Garland, Manager of Volunteer Programs all surrounded by too much stuff, drowning under and Internships, New England Aquarium, MA; Herbert too much paper, and overwhelmed by too many Jones, Volunteer and Intern Programs Coordinator, things to do. We need simple solutions for these Museum of Fine Arts, Boston complicated times and the overload that we deal with on a daily basis. Join us to learn strategies and Creating Place: Leveraging the Power of techniques that will have a big impact on helping Cultural Partnerships you organize and simplify your life. Thomas Paine A Explore how cultural place-making can improve Chair: Marilyn Weiss Cruickshank, Productivity Consultant, Creative Simplicity, MA local economies and create a shared community.

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14 96th Annual NEMA Conference Healthy or Sick - A Thermometer for Collection Health Haym Salomon Collections illustrate your stories and mission, but do they have a clean bill of health? What you may not know is how the health of many of these collections are inherently challenging and affect the health of nearby items, as well as that of staff members and the public alike. Learn about commonly overlooked unhealthy collections, how to identify them, and how you can look for unhealthy symptoms like accretions, secretions, and fumes. Keep your collection in good health in everyday times and during the special needs of emergencies. This session will appeal to all museum staff, but will be most applicable to curators, registrars, and educators. Offering Masters Degrees in Chair: Donia Conn, Preservation Consultant for History with a concentration in Cultural Heritage Collections, NY Public History since 1986. Speaker: Alex Allardt, Principal, ArtCare Resources, RI

Sign Here First! A Review of Liabilities, For more information, visit Waivers, and Releases for (High and Low www.umass.edu/history/ph, Risk) Museum Activities Crispus Attucks email [email protected] As museums seek to engage audiences with or call (413) 545-1330. new and interactive activities, programs, and exhibitions, museums must also be mindful not to expose themselves to unnecessary risks or liabilities. This session will explore the various issues involved when museums “think outside the box” and engage in innovative and non-traditional activities. Using both real and hypothetical examples, our panelists will educate participants in how to transform a high risk activity into a low (or lower!) risk one. Chair: S. Jason Baletsa, Office of the General Counsel, Suffolk University, MA Speakers: Bethany Groff, North Shore Regional Site Manager, Historic New England, MA; Craig Tuminaro, Director of Guest Experiences, Peabody Essex Museum, MA

What Goes Into a Great Grant Proposal: Planning, Planning, Planning (Oh, and a Bit of Writing Too!) Cambridge A great grant proposal stems from great project design. We’ll work on creating proposal and project teams, describing project goals and objectives, and creating budgets and logic models. We’ll also discuss how trends will affect your future grants planning. This is a chock-full, participatory session; no need for a coffee boost beforehand. We won’t focus on grants basics, but will address questions. Two attendees will win copies ofIs Your Museum Grant-Ready? Chair: Sarah Sutton, LEED-AP, Sustainability Advisor to Museums, Zoos, Gardens, Aquariums & Historic Sites, MA (continued on page 16)

Boston/Cambridge 2014 15 (continued from page 15) 10:30 – 11:00 am What Makes Boston Cultural Audiences COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT HALL Tick? Paul Revere 11:00 – 11:30 am For the first time, LaPlaca Cohen has partnered DEMONSTRATION STATION with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to conduct a Boston-focused companion to Culture Track, the Learn How to Apply Philip Yenawine’s Visual Thinking Strategies to Teach History largest national tracking study focused exclusively on the ever-changing attitudes and behaviors of Cindy Vengroff and MaryBeth Clark, Tsongas Industrial U.S. cultural consumers. Culture Track 2014: Focus History Center, MA on Boston provides key insights into the unique characteristics of Boston cultural audiences and 11:00 am – 12:30 pm how these findings compare to the attendance CONCURRENT SESSIONS trends, motivators, and barriers to participation for American cultural audiences at large. Engaging Corporations at Your Museum: Chair: Allison Channing Jones, Strategist, LaPlaca Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies Cohen, NY William Dawes Speaker: Michele Svirsky, Director of Marketing, Building relationships with the corporate Museum of Fine Arts, Boston community can benefit museums by providing funding, resources, and key community advocates 9:45 – 10:15 am to help advance your mission. In this session, we will review current trends in corporate sponsorship DEMONSTRATION STATION and philanthropy, discuss case studies from our Designing and Mounting Professional- institutions, and explore various strategies for looking Vinyl Lettering in Gallery and corporate engagement. Historic Settings Chair: Jacob Barry, Corporate, Foundation & Jane Bowers, Exhibitions Curator and Manager, Government Relations Coordinator, Museum of Science, Wenham Museum, MA Boston Speakers: Monique DeForge, Manager of Corporate Relations, Strawbery Banke, NH; Jessica Tinsley, Director of Development, Mattatuck Museum, CT

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Medical Lessons from a Museum Mummy Thomas Paine A In 2010, Fleming Museum staff wheeled their Egyptian mummy across the street to Fletcher Study Public History at Allen Hospital for a CT scan—a follow-up to her Boston’s Public University 1937 X-ray. The scan led to a collaboration among radiologists, medical examiners, anthropologists, Graduate Studies in History at and museum staff. The museum learned more University of Massachusetts Boston about a valued collection item, and radiologists discovered a forensic application for their scanning MA in History, Public History Track equipment. This panel will discuss the process MA in History, Archives Track and benefits of collaborating across museum and medical disciplines. See the History Department website: Chair: Margaret Tamulonis, Manager of Collections & www.umb.edu/history/grad Exhibitions, Fleming Museum of Art, University of VT or contact the department at Speakers: Lawrence Berman, Ph.D., Norma Jean 617.287.6860 Calderwood Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Janie Cohen, Executive Director, Fleming 15.261asw Museum of Art, University of Vermont; Jason Johnson, Chief of Radiology, Aeromedical Squadron at McGuire Air Force Base, VT; Steve Shapiro, Chief Medical ™ Examiner, State of Vermont MUSEUMRAILS Modular Reader Rail System Objects & Emotion Molly Pitcher This workshop will teach participants how to identify and convey the emotion embedded in their collections, and in so doing create more meaningful museum experiences that contribute to the well-being of visitors. Expect plenty of hands-on activities designed to help you develop a practical toolkit for linking objects to emotions—in behind- the-scenes work in collections storage and also in museum galleries. Co-chairs: Rainey Tisdale, Independent Curator, MA; Linda Norris, The Uncataloged Museum, NY

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THINK TANK: How Can We Make the Museum Field More Socially Responsible? Crispus Attucks Museums have an obligation to improve the quality of life in their communities and create a better world. But how? Our field is empowered with vast potential for social responsibility. It’s up to us to make it a reality. Help us find solutions! This “think tank” session will be a fast-paced and dynamic examination of social responsibility in all its forms – and YOUR ideas are the key to help us transform the museum field. Facilitators: Susan Funk, Executive Vice President, Mystic Seaport Museum, CT (NEMA Board); Sherman Morss, Trustee, USS Constitution Museum, MA; Laura Roberts, Principal, Laura Roberts Consulting, MA; Sarah Marcoux Franke, Membership and Advocacy Manager, New England Museum Association, MA; Phelan Fretz, Executive Director, ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, VT

When Your Discount Programs Aren’t Working: Evolution of the EBT Discount Program Paul Revere Many museums, historic sites, and other cultural organizations understand the necessity of financial access to connect with communities that are not able to pay the regular admission. Panel participants from three different museums will describe their process for implementing discounts like the EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) cards. The panelists will also discuss why it’s important to expand discount programs, the steps to implement these programs including marketing externally, preparing staff internally, stats so far, and recommendations for starting a program like this at your site. Co-chairs: Maria Cabrera, Supervisor, Community GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO BECOME Relations, Museum of Science, Boston, MA (NEMA Board); Kacy Hughes, Senior Manager, Education, Boston Children’s Museum, MA A Museum Leader Speakers: Alicia Green, Parent Ambassador Specialist, Designed for current and future museum Boston Children’s Museum; Roberta King, Assistant professionals, the MA in Museum Studies Director of Member and Visitor Services, Museum emphasizes global perspectives and technology’s of Fine Arts, Boston; Diana Limbach Lempel, Public critical role in today’s museum. Curator and Founder, Cultivating Place, MA > Take nine online courses + one two-week onsite seminar > Apply year round Why Collections-Based Museums Should > Earn your degree part-time Mount Issues-Based Exhibitions > Study with expert faculty from around the world Thomas Paine B > Become a visionary museum leader Collections-based museums have a responsibility to address the broad range of issues related to their missions. But what happens when objects are not Get started here museumstudies.jhu.edu (continued on page 23)

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``The Graduate School Conundrum, Haym Salomon Wednesday ``Mindful Observation, Thomas Paine B 7:00 – 8:00 am ``Museums and Healthy Aging, Cambridge Morning Pilates, Aquarium ``Not Like the Past, William Dawes ``Stump the Lawyers, Paul Revere 8:00 am – 5:00 pm ``Recent Research in Adult Learning & Museums, Molly Registration Open Pitcher 8:00 – 9:00 am Welcome Coffee and Morning Treats 5:30 – 6:15 pm Newcomers Reception 8:15 – 9:00 am Hosted by Tufts University Museum Studies Program NEMA Conference Preview, Paul Revere Charles View Ballroom

9:00 – 10:30 am 7:00 – 9:00 pm Concurrent Sessions Evening Event ``Big Data in Museums, Molly Pitcher ``Opening Party at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library ``Creating a Successful Homeschool Program, Thomas Paine A and Museum, hosted by the Gowrie Group ``Fundraising with your Board, Paul Revere ``Listening to Art and Culture, Crispus Attucks ``Museum and Occupational Therapy, Cambridge Thursday ``Pop-Up Programming & Exhibits, Haym Salomon 7:00 – 8:00 am ``Time for the Treasurer’s Report, William Dawes NEMA Fitness, Hotel Lobby ``Worst. Job. Ever?, Thomas Paine B 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Registration Open Keynote Session 8:00 – 9:00 am Hosted by Marquis Design Coffee and Morning Treats in Exhibit Hall President's Ballroom Hosted by Beyond Genocide

12:30 – 1:30 pm 8:00 – 9:00 am OPENING LUNCH IMP Professional Affinity Group Breakfast President's Ballroom Aquarium

12:30 – 1:30 pm 8:05 am – 12:30 pm Directors and Trustees Lunch Off-site Sessions 2 Hosted by Qm , Smith & St. John, and US Trust Bank of ``Special Collections America Private Wealth Management ``MFA and Medical Community Partnerships Charles View Ballroom ``Best Practices in Collections Digitization

1:20 – 5:15 pm 9:00 – 9:30 am Off-site Sessions Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall ``Pulling Together ``Object Photography for Cultural Heritage Collections ``Anyone Else Would Have Torn This Place Down ``Building a Learning Experience 9:00 – 10:30 am Concurrent Sessions 1:45 – 3:15 pm ``Beyond Collections, Molly Pitcher Concurrent Sessions ``Building a Healthy Volunteer Community, William Dawes ``Everybody Loves Free Stuff!, Paul Revere ``Creating Place, Thomas Paine A ``Feeding the Brain and the Body, Cambridge ``Get Organized!, Thomas Paine B ``Intimate Spaces, Quiet Places, Haym Salomon ``A Thermometer for Collection Health, Haym Salomon ``Look, Experience, Create, Thomas Paine B ``A Review of Liabilities, Waivers, & Releases, Crispus Attucks ``Mergers & Closings as Strategies for Success, Thomas Paine A ``What Goes Into a Great Grant Proposal, Cambridge ``Publish for Peers, Advance your Career, William Dawes ``What Makes Boston Cultural Audiences Tick?, Paul Revere ``Right the Ship: Governance 101, Crispus Attucks ``Using Sustained Attention to Read Objects, Molly Pitcher 9:45 – 10:15 am Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall 2:30 - 3:30 pm ``Designing & Mounting Professional-looking Vinyl Lettering Career Conversation with Carole Charnow Aquarium 10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall 3:15 – 3:45 pm Snack Break 11:00 – 11:30 am Hosted by Art Shipping International Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall ``Visual Thinking Strategies to Teach History 3:45 – 5:15 pm Concurrent Sessions 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ``Building Healthy Museum Boards, Crispus Attucks Concurrent Sessions Engaging Corporations at Your Museum, William Dawes ``Digitization, Documentation and 3-D Presentation of `` Historic New England Stereoviews, Thomas Paine A ``From Classroom to Museum, Haym Salomon

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``Medical Lessons from a Museum Mummy, Thomas Paine A ``Objects & Emotion, Molly Pitcher Friday ``Practical Inventory Procedures, Cambridge 7:00 – 8:00 am ``THINK TANK: How Can We Make the Museum Field NEMA Fitness, Aquarium More Socially Responsible?, Crispus Attucks 8:00 am – Noon ``When Your Discount Programs Aren’t Working, Paul Revere Registration Open ``Issues-Based Exhibitions, Thomas Paine B 8:00 – 9:00 am 11:45 am – 12:15 pm Coffee and Morning Treats in Exhibit Hall Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall ``How to Catch an Interview & Snare the Job 8:15 am – 12:30 pm Off-site Sessions 12:45 pm – 2:20 pm ``The Art of Science ``Hall of Human Life PAG Lunches ``Keep Calm & Walk On ``History in Hot Water ``Children's Museums PAG, Molly Pitcher ``College & University & Exhibits PAGs hosted by NAME, 8:45 – 10:15 am Cambridge Concurrent Sessions ``Education PAG , Empress Ballroom ``Interactive Centers, Thomas Paine ``Historic Site PAG & Open Mic!, Crispus Attucks ``Millennials, Molly Pitcher ``Library & Archives & Curators PAG, William Dawes ``Sacred Spaces: Spirituality in Museums, Crispus Attucks ``Membership, Development, PR & Marketing PAG, hosted ``THINK TANK: How Can We Diversify the Museum Field?, by Alexander Haas, Paul Revere William Dawes ``The Museum Directors’ Discussion, hosted by Cambridge ``Pulling Back the Curtain, Paul Revere Savings Bank, Charles View Ballroom ``Registrar’s Roundtables , Haym Salomon ``Registrar’s PAG, hosted by Huntington T. Block, Haym 9:00 – 9:30 am Salomon Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall 1:20 – 4:30 pm ``Hands-On Wet Recovery Off-site Sessions 9:30 – 10:00 am ``Hacking the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall ``Seat of Empire ``Using Apps to Message in Your Museum ``Thinking Through Art 10:15 – 10:45 am 2:00 - 3:00 pm Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall Career Conversation Jane Pickering, Aquarium 10:45 ­– 11:45 am 2:30 – 3:00 pm Career Conversation with Nick Capasso Snack Break in the Exhibit Hall Aquarium Hosted by POW! (Paul Orselli Workshop) 10:45 am – 12:15 pm 3:00 – 3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall ``Growing Your Career Resilience, Paul Revere ``Smart Purchasing ``It CAN Be All Fun and Games!, Thomas Paine 3:00 – 4:30 pm ``Making Difference in Ability and Age, Molly Pitcher Concurrent Sessions ``Reflective Practice and Action Research,William Dawes ``All Together Now: Teens and Museums, Molly Pitcher ``Shedding Light on the ISGM Lighting Project, Crispus Attucks ``Beyond the Boundaries of the Museum, Thomas Paine A ``Skype-a-Docent: Museum Tours, Haym Salomon ``Free Membership, William Dawes ``Small Collaboration for Big Change, Cambridge ``Healthy Collaboration, Thomas Paine B 11:00 – 11:30 am ``Beneficial Museum & Library Partnerships, Crispus Attucks Demonstration Station ``COSTEP MA, Cambridge ``Physical Presence: Using Zelly the Robot ``Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Haym Salomon ``Zen and the Art of Successful Negotiation, Paul Revere 12:15 – 1:00 pm Exhibit Hall Closing Reception and Raffle 3:45 – 4:15 pm Demonstration Station in the Exhibit Hall 1:00 – 2:15 pm ``Textile Storage Techniques Awards Luncheon and Annual Meeting Charles View & Empress Ballrooms 4:30 - 5:30 pm Exhibit Hall Opening Reception 2:30 – 4:00 pm Concurrent Sessions 6:30 – 9:00 pm ``Leadership & Change, Molly Pitcher Evening Events ``Common Core, Thomas Paine ``Directors & Trustees Reception, hosted by Museum ``Giving Trends of Philanthropists, Cambridge Search & Reference ``What the Boston Marathon Bombing Taught, Paul Revere ``Kinetic Connections / MIT Museum in Motion, hosted by Art New England ``All Hands on Deck!

Boston/Cambridge 2014 21 PAG Lunch Sessions (12:45 ­‑ 2:20 pm) Everybody is welcome to attend any Professional Affinity Group session. Director’s Discussion is limited to museum directors only. If you ordered a box lunch, please collect it from the Exhibit Hall from 12:30-1:00 pm.

Children’s Museums PAG networking lunch. You’ll have the opportunity to Molly Pitcher meet new colleagues and reconnect with others, Join us for an open discussion of the latest successes share information about current projects, and and challenges in children’s museums and other discuss your questions and concerns in a casual, types of museums that serve family audiences. We’ll relaxed atmosphere. discuss what’s new with colleagues, recent museum Co-chairs: Darren Brown, Curator of Collections, successes and challenges, and how we can work Beverly Historical Society, MA; Heather Leavell, together for the improvement of all. Curator, Peabody Historical Society, MA; Rebecca Co-chairs: Kim Kuta Dring, Director of Content Parmer, College Archivist, Connecticut College; Development and Evaluation, Stepping Stones Museum Elizabeth Roscio, Archivist, Bostonian Society for Children, CT; Paula Rais, Director of Community Engagement, The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire Membership, Development, PR & Marketing PAG College & University and Exhibits PAGs Paul Revere Cambridge This year’s MDPRM lunch will focus on equal parts Speakers at this luncheon session will stimulate networking, brainstorming, and fun. Come meet our creativity with experimental projects, your fellow membership, development, PR, and interdisciplinary collaborations, and the innovative marketing colleagues, and take part in sharing new laboratories they have created with faculty, ideas and best practices in our respective fields in students, and visiting artists under the auspices of a fast-paced, lively, and interactive format. HINT: their academic affiliations. Hosted by NAME. There will be prizes involved! Co-chairs: Jan Crocker, Exhibit Manager, Heritage Chair: Allison Crosscup, Assistant Director, Museums & Gardens, MA; Kristina Durocher, Director, Institutional Giving, Peabody Essex Museum, MA Museum of Art University of New Hampshire; Chris Hosted by Sancomb, Exhibit Designer, Providence Children’s Museum, RI Speakers: Bess Paupeck, Program Manager of Harvard’s Arts @ 29 Garden, MA; Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Ph.D, The Museum Directors’ Discussion Director of Galleries and Collections, Tufts University Charles View Ballroom Art Gallery, MA; Leonie Bradbury, Gallery Director and Back by popular demand! This is an opportunity for Curator, Montserrat College of Art, MA CEO/Directors to discuss concerns and challenges in an open forum setting. Our facilitator will keep Education PAG the conversation moving while we share ideas and Empress Ballroom solutions. Whether you are a seasoned or a first-time Enjoy a great conversation with colleagues. We’ll director, this discussion will be for CEOs of any size explore the field’s hot topic—creative practice— museum. Participation is limited to CEO/Directors. and ways we can infuse experimentation, risk- Chair: Jonathan A. Stevens, President and CEO, taking, and FUN into our day-to-day work and our American Textile History Museum, MA institutional culture to better serve our public. Hosted by Co-chairs: Jane Oneail, Senior Educator, Currier Museum of Art, NH; Elisabeth Nevins, Seed Education Consulting, MA Registrars PAG Historic Site PAG Lunch & Open Mic! Haym Salomon Crispus Attucks As our museum community is constantly growing What’s on your mind? Join us for networking and evolving, join us for a review of the year’s and an opportunity for informal sharing of ideas, activities and meet your fellow registrar and challenges, and successes. The goal of the Historic collection manager colleagues. The lunch program Site PAG is to educate and connect museum will provide updates in the collections care field professionals working at historic sites. That makes from insurance coverage to legal issues facing YOUR feedback and participation essential! museum today. And bring your questions! There Co-chairs: Linda Marshall, Regional Site Manager, couldn’t be a better time to ask your colleagues for Northern New England, Historic New England, NH; their advice or suggestions. Jennifer Matos, Executive Director, Noah Webster House Co-chairs: Mary Busick, Associate Registrar, Wadsworth & West Hartford Historical Society, CT Atheneum Museum of Art, CT; Meredith Vasta, Collections Steward, Peabody Museum of Archaeology Library & Archives and Curators PAGs and Ethnology, MA William Dawes The Library & Archives and Curators PAGs Hosted by are teaming up again this year for an informal

22 96th Annual NEMA Conference (continued from page 19) 2:00 - 3:00 pm central to the story? Participants will learn about CAREER successful issues-based exhibitions in object-based CONVERSATION institutions, including human health (Big Food: Aquarium Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating) and Join Jane Pickering, Director climate change (Seasons of Change), and will be of the Harvard Museums of empowered to consider this approach as a way Science and Culture, for a look of diversifying and increasing relevance to their at her distinguished career audiences. and a discussion of working in the museum field. Chair: Richard Kissel, Ph.D, Director of Public Jane has over 20 years of experience in university Programs, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, CT museums, including curating, public programming, Speakers: David Heiser, Head of Education and museum management, and education. In January Outreach, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2013 she came to Harvard to direct a new partnership CT; Jane Pickering, Executive Director, Harvard of six museums (Collection of Historical Scientific Museums of Science and Culture, MA; Richard Instruments, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Polonsky, Research Fellow, Brown University’s Center Harvard University Herbaria, Mineralogical and for Environmental Studies, RI Geological Museum, Harvard Semitic Museum), the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, which 11:45 am – 12:15 pm is responsible for the public face of the museums as well as initiatives that serve the Harvard community. DEMONSTRATION STATION How to Catch an Interview and Snare the 2:30 – 3:00 pm Job with the Right Resume SNACK BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT HALL Angela Cheng-Cimini, Director, Human Resources, Old Hosted by Sturbridge Village, MA

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PUB SIZE Run Dates COLOR NEMA 2014 6 x 5 November 19, color Conference Program 2014 (continued from page 23) greater philanthropic support. The session will share the research behind the concept, the 3:00 – 3:30 pm implementation steps, the successes and challenges DEMONSTRATION STATION of the new program, and the next steps for implementing this new model of community and Smart Purchasing – How Your Museum Can Save Time and Money donor engagement. Chair: Jill Westgard, Deputy Director for Advancement, Jennifer Lapointe and Ellen Bickelman, Member Services, Yale University Art Gallery, CT Outreach and Marketing, MHEC Speakers: Linda Jerolmon, Membership Manager, and Brian McGovern, Assistant Director of Advancement, 3:00 – 4:30 pm Yale University Art Gallery, CT CONCURRENT SESSIONS Healthy Collaboration: Case Study and All Together Now: Teens and Museums Mini-Workshop Molly Pitcher Thomas Paine B In conjunction with the Fall 2014 issue of the Journal Hear from Boston Children’s Museum staff about of Museum Education this panel will address the their collaboration with the Family Dinner Project current state of teens in museums. We will consider to create a unique exhibit inspired by the health this important audience from diverse perspectives, benefits of sharing family meals. We’ll go over the and discuss frameworks and opportunities for many ingredients that go into a mutually beneficial teens to become active contributors to museum collaboration. After reviewing the case study, communities where their ideas are centralized. we’ll break out into small discussion groups and, Embracing the concept of new educational models, using our model as a guide, brainstorm potential this panel will be moderated and co-developed partnerships to pursue at your own museum. by teen program participants from the Institute of Chair: Margaret Middleton, Exhibit Designer, Boston Contemporary Art’s Teen Arts Council. Children’s Museum Co-chairs: Gabrielle Wyrick, Associate Director of Speaker: Alice Vogler, Arts Program Manager, Boston Education, and Joe Douillette, Teen New Media Program Children’s Museum Manager, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (continued on page 27) Beyond the Boundaries of the Museum: The 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan Thomas Paine A Bringing your museum to new audiences involves careful planning, risk, and vision. For the voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, America’s oldest whalingship, the Mystic Seaport formed many dynamic partnerships with large organizations, creative individuals, and passionate enthusiasts outside the museum world. What happened and what does the future hold once the project is complete? Discover what can arise when you invite peer institutions, funders, and the public to add their perspectives to your central artifact. This panel will show how partnerships can enhance a project of any size. Chair: Susan Funk, Executive Vice President, Mystic Seaport Museum, CT (NEMA Board) Speakers: Elysa Engleman, Exhibits Researcher, and Katharine Mead, Program Coordinator, Mystic Seaport resources & funding Museum, CT; Veronica Lawlor, President, Studio 1482, NY; Betsy Leahy, Teacher, Shady Hill School, for MA; Dede Marx, Exhibit Coordinator and Marine Archaeologist, NOAA/Stellwagen Bank National new england’s Marine Sanctuary, MA Free Membership: Side Effects May Include museums Increased Support William Dawes www.nefa.org In July 2013, the Yale University Art Gallery made the bold move to disband its traditional membership program and introduced a free membership. Eighteen months later, the program has led to more community participation and

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Experience the new Harvard Art Museums. Three extraordinary museums united under one glass roof. harvardartmuseums.org #OpenThisFall 26 96th Annual NEMA Conference (continued from page 25) Zen and the Art of Successful Negotiation Paul Revere A Natural Affinity: Mutually Beneficial Are you a good negotiator? Many people abhor Museum and Library Partnerships negotiations because they perceive them to be Crispus Attucks sweaty, confrontational, win/lose situations. But Museums and libraries share many of the same they don’t have to be. The best negotiations are goals and face many similar challenges. Staff based on respectful relationships and produce from the Boston Children’s Museum, USS enlightened outcomes that have potentially Constitution Museum, and Massachusetts Library transformative benefits for everyone. Learn how System will share their partnership experiences, to build your negotiating chops through self- which strengthened the institutions and their awareness and consciousness. Whether you’re communities. Topics will include: initiating a an expert negotiator or neophyte, join us for new partnership, what your museum can offer, museum insights into this must-have professional skill. programs for libraries, drawing library patrons to your museum, museum pass programs, aiding Chair: Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New England literacy and pre-K readiness, and making your Museum Association, MA museum visible to library patrons. Chair: Lauren McCormick, Manager of Public Programs, 3:45 – 4:15 pm USS Constitution Museum, MA DEMONSTRATION STATION Speakers: Beth Fredericks, Director of Museums/ Textile Storage Techniques Libraries Project, Boston Children's Museum; Sarah Camille Breeze, Director, Museum Textile Services, MA Sogigian, Advisor, Youth Services, Massachusetts Library System, Sarah Watkins, Director of Collections and Learning, USS Constitution Museum, MA EVENING EVENTS Oh No!!! What Do We Do Now?: COSTEP MA and An Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS) EXHIBIT HALL RECEPTION Cambridge COSTEP MA is an organization working with the 4:30 – 5:30 pm cultural and emergency management communities A great way to end the afternoon! Join us for wine to ensure that the cultural community is involved and delicious hors d’oeuvres in the action-packed in all aspects of disaster preparedness. The Incident Exhibit Hall, the place to be for interacting with Command System (ICS) is used nationally by the latest innovative products and services. Get emergency managers in responding to disasters. your raffle cards signed for great prizes (drawing is This workshop will introduce participants to Friday afternoon), chat with friends, and relax a bit COSTEP MA and will provide a brief overview of before your evening starts. Happy hour indeed! ICS. Participants will divide into small groups and address hypothetical emergencies in a table-top ALL HANDS ON DECK! format led by conservators. 6:30 – 8:30 pm Co-chairs: Andy Grilz, Project Coordinator for COSTEP Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 5:50 pm. Bus leaves MA’s FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant; David promptly at 6:00 pm. Dempsey, Associate Director for Museum Services, Smith College Museum of Art, MA DIRECTORS & TRUSTEES RECEPTION 6:30 – 7:40 pm Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 6:00 pm. Buses leaves Museums as Places of Belonging promptly at 6:10 pm. Buses will leave Harvard at 7:40 Haym Salomon for the MIT Museum. Rootedness, identity, and connectedness are Hosted by increasingly recognized as vital components of well-being. How can museums help people develop a sense of belonging, and how can museums themselves become more rooted in their local context? Participants will learn concrete tools from KINETIC CONNECTIONS / MIT MUSEUM fields like place-making and positive psychology, such as cognitive mapping and asset inventories, to IN MOTION generate ideas for using objects, stories, and spaces 6:30 – 9:00 pm to support authentic relationships between people Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 6:20 pm. Buses leaves and place. promptly at 6:30 pm. Buses will leave MIT to return to Chair: Michelle Moon, Assistant Director for Adult the hotel at at 9:00 pm. Programs, Peabody Essex Museum, MA Hosted by

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7:00 – 8:00 am how forces in these environments change us NEMA FITNESS biologically, how we change them, and how those changes may shape the future of our species. Aquarium Start the day with a clear mind and relaxed body! Chair: Larry Bell, Sr. Vice President for Strategic Taijiquan (Tai Chi) is an internal Chinese martial art, Initiatives, Museum of Science, Boston meaning the practitioner regulates mind, breath, Speakers: Elizabeth Kong, Ph.D., Manager, Hall of and qi to control the physical body. Participants Human Life, and Keith Simmons, Interactive Software in this session will learn the “Grasp the Sparrow’s Developer, Museum of Science, Boston Tail” section of the Yang-style Taijiquan form, with History in Hot Water: Interpretive emphasis on coordinating breathing with body Strategies and Challenges from a movement. Hannah Weisman is the Education Successful Education Program (Sold Out) Programs Manager at Historic Newton. She Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 8:50 am. The bus will trains in Chinese martial arts with Master George leave promptly at 9:00 am. Lawrence and teaches a weekly Taijiquan class at the Tobin Community Center in Boston. Wear Co-chairs: Tegan Kehoe, Museum Educator and comfortable clothing. Reservations Manager, and Erica Lindamood, Director of Education, Old South Meeting House, MA 8:00 am – Noon 8:45 – 10:15 am REGISTRATION OPEN CONCURRENT SESSIONS

8:00 – 9:00 am Interactive Centers: from Concept to WAKE-UP COFFEE AND MORNING Completion TREATS IN EXHIBIT HALL Thomas Paine Pondering an interactive zone at your institution? Gain valuable insider knowledge from project 8:15 am – 12:30 pm leaders at two very different museums on OFF-SITE SESSIONS everything from “blue sky” dreaming to wrangling interactives. Learn how the Peabody Essex The Art of Science: Engaging Diverse Museum set goals, prioritized objectives, and Student Populations through STEAM managed troubleshooting during the re-design and Experiences (Sold Out) installation of its Art & Nature Center in 2013 (plus Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 8:15 am. Bus leaves the brand new Maker Lounge), and how the Maine promptly at 8:25 am. State Museum has undertaken visioning, planning Chair: Faith Dukes, Ph.D., Education Coordinator, MIT and fundraising for its future interactive center. Museum, MA Chair: Jane Winchell, the Sarah Fraser Robbins Director, Keep Calm and Walk On: A Wander through Art & Nature Center, Peabody Essex Museum, MA Mount Auburn Cemetery (Sold Out) Speakers: Edith Shimel, Youth Programs Coordinator, Ticket holders meet in the Lobby at 8:20 am. The bus will Peabody Essex Museum, MA; Joanna Torow, Chief leave promptly at 8:30 am. Educator, Maine State Museum Chair: Bree Harvey, Vice President of Cemetery & Millennials: Strategies for Short-Term Visitor Services, Mount Auburn Cemetery, MA Engagement and Long-Term Success Molly Pitcher Hall of Human Life: Incorporating New Museums everywhere are working to figure Media and Interactives for a Visitor-Driven Approach out how to engage millennials. This key group Ticket holders meet in the lobby at 8:35 am. Bus leaves is already playing an increasingly important promptly at 8:45 am. Limited tickets available at Walk-in role in fundraising, visitor experience, and Registration. programming, and it’s critical that museums The Hall of Human Life, the Museum of Science, adopt strategies now to ensure a sustainable Boston’s largest exhibition since the 1990s, is a future. Learn how the Portland Museum of Art powerfully interactive 10,000-square-foot space has achieved fundraising and programmatic that draws from the region’s vibrant life sciences success while promoting the next generation of and medical communities to engage visitors in museum leaders, and share your own stories and their own biology and health. Many activities, tactics with fellow NEMA colleagues. involving visitors’ eyes and ears, hands, and Chair: William Cary, Director of Leadership Gifts & feet, become part of an anonymous database of Planned Giving, Portland Museum of Art, ME visitor responses online. Walking through five dynamic environments (Food, Organisms, Physical Forces, Time, and Communities) visitors discover

28 96th Annual NEMA Conference Sacred Spaces: Spirituality in Museums Boston Children’s Museum, MA; Paul Orselli, Chief Crispus Attucks Instigator, Paul Orselli Workshop, NY And now for something completely different! Have you explored the spiritual side of your Registrar’s Roundtables museum? Join us for an enlightening discussion Haym Salomon of how museums can offer paths to deeper We have a lot to discuss! Come to the registrar’s meaning by facilitating contemplative experiences. roundtable session where we will talk about general Through engagement with their designed and facility reports, insurance, donations and tax credits. natural environments, museums can foster highly We will also have a table dedicated to general personal and meaningful connections with visitors. topics—just in case you have that odd issue you have Moreover, the sense of tranquility and relatedness always wanted to discuss with your colleagues. This inherent to these experiences can be a vital source of is your opportunity to ask questions, discuss, swap healing and holistic wellness. stories and ideas, or just listen. Chair: Rebecca Smith, Independent Museum Co-chairs: Mary Busick, Associate Registrar, Wadsworth Professional, MA Atheneum Museum of Art, CT; Meredith Vasta, Speakers: Carl Jay, Director of Historic Preservation, Collections Steward, Peabody Museum of Archaeology Shawmut Design and Construction, MA; Tracy and Ethnology, MA Remelius, Outdoor Guide, Yoga Instructor, and Coach, Speakers: Darlene Bialowski, Contract Registrar for Tracy Remelius Health Coaching and Yoga, MA Museums, Private Collectors & Corporations, NH; Edward Russo, Head Registrar, Wadsworth Atheneum THINK TANK: How Can We Diversify the Museum of Art, CT Museum Field? William Dawes 9:00 – 9:30 am Communities are becoming more multicultural. DEMONSTRATION STATION Unfortunately, the museum profession does not reflect those changing demographics. We’re Hands-On Wet Recovery persistently homogeneous and if we don’t change, Eva Grizzard, Preservation Specialist, Northeast our museums run the risk of irrelevance. Help us Document Conservation Center, MA find solutions! This “think tank” session will be a fast-paced and dynamic examination of diversity in 9:30 – 10:00 am all its forms – and YOUR ideas are the key to help us transform the museum field. DEMONSTRATION STATION Facilitators: Kristin Gallas, Director of Interpretation Hands Off ON Our Beacons! Using Apps to Projects, The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies Message in Your Museum of Slavery, MA; Pilar Garro, Castle Hill Engagement Thomas Dunne, CEO & President, OnCell-TourSphere, Manager, The Trustees of Reservations, MA (NEMA NY Board); Maria Cabrera, Supervisor, Community Relations, Museum of Science, Boston (NEMA Board); 10:15 – 10:45 am Wyona Lynch-McWhite, Executive Director, Fruitlands COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL Museum, MA (NEMA Board); Purvi Patwari, Director of Human Resources, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, MA 10:45 ­– 11:45 am Pulling Back the Curtain: Sharing Exhibit CAREER Development Choices with Our Visitors Paul Revere CONVERSATION In the process of designing exhibits, we make a lot of Aquarium decisions—about which stories to tell, perspectives Join Nicholas Capasso, Ph.D., to advocate, objects to display, and language to use. Director of the Fitchburg Art But visitors sometimes question or misunderstand Museum, for a look at his our choices. Maybe we should explicitly share with distinguished career and a discussion of working visitors the thinking behind our decisions. If so, in the museum field. Fitchburg Art Museum is a how can we best do this? Participants will work community-focused museum in Fitchburg, MA in facilitated groups to brainstorm and develop with art historical collections, changing exhibitions techniques for sharing exhibit development of regional contemporary art, and educational processes and choices with visitors. and community outreach programs. Prior to his appointment at Fitchburg, Nick was Deputy Chair: Sari Boren, Independent Exhibit Developer & Director for Curatorial Affairs at the deCordova Writer, MA Sculpture Park and Museum, a museum of Speakers: Christina Ferwerda, Freelance Exhibit Developer, NY; Kate Marciniec, Director of Exhibits, (continued on page 30)

Boston/Cambridge 2014 29 (continued from page 29) games” align with a museum’s mission to promote health and wellness. Examples of 17th century contemporary art in Lincoln, MA. During his 22 games from Plimoth Plantation and Super Bowl years in the deCordova Curatorial Department, training from the Heinz History Center in Pittsburg he organized or co-organized over 75 exhibitions, show how sports and foodways are understood and played a central role in the expansion of the in a historical context through play. In addition to deCordova Sculpture Park. discussion, there will be time to test your skills at the featured games. Come play! 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Chair: Jennifer Brundage, National Outreach Manager, CONCURRENT SESSIONS Smithsonian Affiliations, DC Speakers: Kate LaPrad, Director/Museum Affairs, Growing Your Career Resilience: Re- Plimoth Plantation, MA; Tom Brillat, Director of Inventing Yourself to Respond to Career Interpretation, Mystic Seaport Museum, CT Change Paul Revere Making Difference in Ability and Age an Developing our abilities to adapt to change has Asset to Richer Experiences for Everyone become critical in today’s work world with museum Molly Pitcher careers that can span decades. This interactive It’s our shared good fortune to live thirty years session explores the four habits of career resilience longer on average than a century ago and to survive and how you can use them to re-invent yourself, illness and injury at rates unimaginable until turn challenges into career opportunities, and now. This diversity requires anticipating a level of consider new models for building a healthy career functional differences, but not defaulting to special that will work for you throughout your life. programs. Starting from global precedents as Chair: Michele Martin, Bamboo Project Blog, PA illustration, the moderator will engage three leaders from very different museums, all grappling with It CAN Be All Fun and Games! challenges to grow, as well as the audience, on how Thomas Paine to make this an opportunity rather than a burden. Explore the innovative ways that museums employ Chair: Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director, Institute for physical fitness in programming, and how “fun and Human Center Design, MA

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30 96th Annual NEMA Conference Speakers: Neil Gordon, CEO, Discovery Museums, MA; together - through staff exchanges and professional Beverly Morgan-Welch, Executive Director, Museum development. We created cutting-edge exhibits of African American History, MA; Matthias Waschek, and experienced lots of unanticipated outcomes. Director, Worcester Art Museum, MA After the partners share insights learned about collaborations, the session will turn to helping Reflective Practice and Action Research participants discover where and how partnerships as a Means for Growing a Healthy Staff can work for you. Community William Dawes Chair: Phelan Fretz, Executive Director, ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, VT This session focuses on efforts to promote a culture of reflection among education staff. Above all, we Speakers: Betsy Loring, Director of Exhibits, find that reflective practice is a journey and does EcoTarium, MA; Denise LeBlanc, Director of Learning Experiences, The Discovery Museums, MA; Lucia not have a well-defined beginning, middle, or end. Stancioff, Visitor Experience Director, Children’s Staff from the New England Aquarium and the Museum and Theater of Maine; Julie Silverman, Co- Providence Children’s Museum will share varied director, Collaboration and Innovation, ECHO Lake strategies, from reading clubs to talk back boards to Aquarium and Science Center, VT data collection, and lead a reflective discussion on lessons learned and ideas for the future. Co-chairs: Hannah Pickard, Education Programs 11:00 – 11:30 am Supervisor, New England Aquarium, MA; Cathy DEMONSTRATION STATION Saunders, Education Director, Providence Children’s Physical Presence: Using Zelly the Robot to Museum, RI (NEMA Board) Engage Museum Audiences Speakers: Paul Fenton, Senior Program Educator, New Joe Romanelli, Owner, Romanelli Digital Media, MA England Aquarium, MA; Suzy Letourneau, Project Researcher, Providence Children’s Museum, RI (continued on page 32) Shedding Light on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Lighting Project Crispus Attucks In 2012, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum completed an eight year, $1.65 million initiative to upgrade lighting throughout its iconic palace building. The lighting team worked to balance the historic atmosphere, Gardner’s intent for the use of light, protecting the collection, and improving the visitor experience. This talk will review the working process and the many challenges, including trying to find neutral solutions for individually unique galleries and working while the museum remained open to the public. Chair: Holly Salmon, Objects Conservator, Lighting Project Manager, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MA

Skype-a-Docent: Museum Tours Haym Salomon The Fairfield Public Library in Fairfield, Connecticut began an innovative program this past year that Art Shipping International is brings the museum experience to seniors living the trusted provider of fine art either independently or in a nursing home. Find handling, shipping and exhibition out how your museum can use Skype technology to create a video phone call for an interactive tour that management services. brings art to seniors who couldn’t come to you on their own. Our team of specialists is privileged Chair: Lauren DeNisco, Reference Associate, Fairfield to serve world renowned museums, Public Library, CT galleries, dealers, auction houses, Speaker: Jim Swift, Systems Administrator, Fairfield foundations, corporations and Public Library, CT private collectors and is a long Small Collaboration for Big Change standing member of NEMA, AAM Cambridge and ICEFAT. For ten years, four small New England museums joined forces to create exhibits and much more. We built cultures of prototyping, evaluation, risk taking, public engagement, teaming and learning

Boston/Cambridge 2014 31 (continued from page 31) Speakers: Paige Lilly, Curator, Castine Historical Society, ME; Emily Murphy, Ph.D., Acting Chief 12:15 – 1:00 pm of Resource Stewardship, Salem Maritime National EXHIBIT HALL CLOSING RECEPTION AND Historic Site and Saugus Iron Works National Historic RAFFLE Site, MA; Aimee Newell, Ph.D., Director of Collections, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, MA; Carrie Don’t miss this special opportunity to explore the Taylor, Director, Lippitt House Museum, RI services and products in the Exhibit Hall. Will you win one of the wonderful raffle prizes generously Common Core donated by our exhibitors? Perhaps you’ll win a Thomas Paine registration to next year’s conference! Bring your In our effort to meet the needs of school-age signed raffle card and join in the fun. audiences, museum educators have adapted their K-12 programming to align with state learning 1:00 – 2:15 pm standards. Now those standards are changing. AWARDS LUNCHEON AND ANNUAL What are the Common Core Learning Standards MEETING and how will their implementation shape our work Charles View & Empress Ballrooms with students and teachers in the museum? In this session, you will learn more about the Common Core Close out your 2014 conference by celebrating the standards and their application in museum settings. excellence of this year’s NEMA award winners and Bring your own experiences and challenges to the hearing about the latest NEMA initiatives. Help table to collaborate with peers on creative ways to elect the next NEMA board and officers during a meet the new standards while remaining true to the brief annual meeting before moving on to the day’s inherent wonder of learning in the museum. final conference sessions. Co-chairs: Elisabeth Nevins, Principal, Seed Education Chair: Susan Funk, Executive Vice President, Mystic Consulting, MA; Jane Oneail, Senior Educator, Currier Seaport Museum, CT (NEMA Board) Museum of Art, NH Speaker: Carolin Collins, Education Program Manager, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Historic New England, MA AWARD We are thrilled to present the Giving Trends of High Net Worth Philanthropists NEMA Lifetime Achievement Cambridge Award to our good friend and colleague, Stuart Parnes, This will be an interactive session reviewing key who has retired from the findings from a study on the giving behaviors museum field after more and motivations of wealthy donors to nonprofits. than 35 years of service, most Established in 2006, the U.S. Trust Study of High recently as executive director Net Worth Philanthropy, conducted in collaboration of Connecticut Humanities. Throughout his career, with the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Stuart has been an active supporter and leader Indiana University, is one of the longest running of NEMA, serving on the board for many years, studies of its kind that examines the giving patterns and has advanced the museum field nationally and priorities of America’s wealthiest households. through leadership in AAM. Please join us at the Chair: Joy Hunter Chaillou, Senior Vice President, NEMA Awards Luncheon to recognize Stuart’s Institutional Philanthropic Specialist, U.S. Trust Bank of achievements and contributions. America Corporation, CT

What the Boston Marathon Bombing 2:30 – 4:00 pm Taught Us About Empathetic Museums CONCURRENT SESSIONS Paul Revere What would it mean for your museum to serve “But We’ve Always Done It That Way...”: as a community anchor during a time of tragedy? Leadership and Change Is Not as Hard as Representatives from Boston-area cultural It Sounds institutions will briefly share their experiences and Molly Pitcher lessons learned from the 2013 Boston Marathon Leadership and change are two of the scariest Bombing. We will then facilitate a wide-ranging words for many of us, but also two of the most audience discussion about empathetic museums, exciting. This session combines a short panel disaster planning for public audiences, capacity discussion about leading successful change from building, and civic engagement so that you can any place in your organization, with round-table consider how these issues apply to your own discussions around leading change on any scale: for institution. your project, your department, your organization, Chair: Rainey Tisdale, Independent Curator, MA even your career. We hope that everyone leaves feeling jazzed about leadership and change, or at least a little less scared. Chair: Julia Clark, Curator of Collections, Abbe Museum, ME

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