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WELCOME TO THE 101ST NEMA CONFERENCE CODE OF CONDUCT We’ve compiled the following details to ensure you NEMA has introduced a Code of Conduct for all of enjoy the 2019 NEMA Conference. its events, whether in person or online. All attendees agree to abide by the code in order for us to work CONFERENCE APP together toward inclusion, safety, respect, and Put the entire 2019 NEMA Conference at your professionalism. Please read the code at fingertips with our exclusive conference app. You’ll nemanet.org/code or at Walk-In Registration. have it all: access to session information, floor plans, evaluations, social media, and information about SESSION UPDATES Burlington. Download the Whova app from the What IS In It For Me? (originally scheduled Friday, App Store or Google Play. Open Whova, then search 11:15 am) will be Wednesday, 4:00 pm. A new session, for “2019 Annual NEMA Conference.” Click on the Recharge and Reimagine: Creativity Break, will be Friday conference, then click “Join Event.” If it asks for a 11:15 am. password, enter “NEMA2019.” CREATIVE RELAXATION CONCURRENT SESSIONS Recharge at our creative outlet! Visit the Poet Tree in Conference sessions can fill up quickly and are on a the Exhibit Hall to read, write, and reflect. first-come, first-seated basis. We suggest arriving at least 5 minutes prior to the starting time and having a SOCIAL MEDIA second choice ready. Please note the one-hour session Join the conversation on social media with blocks on Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning, #NEMA2019 and follow @nemanet on Twitter and which offer you more choices and more content! @nema_conference on Instagram. Share the fun of conference and tell the world why you love museums! CONFERENCE AMBASSADORS Need help navigating Conference? Look for one of our DEMONSTRATION STATION Conference Ambassadors. They’re the ones wearing Exhibit Hall the cheery yellow buttons and an equally cheery smile. The Demonstration Station is the place to get fast- They’ll be glad to help! moving, how-to tips on mastering the latest museum field trends. GREEN IS GOOD! We know you value the environment and so does NEMA CONFERENCE BOOKSTORE NEMA. Here are some of the ways we are “greening” Registration Area, Wednesday, Noon – 5 pm; the conference: Thursday, 8 am – 5 pm; Friday, 8 am – Noon • Tote bags you can reuse for shopping Browse the Conference Bookstore for great reads to • Biodegradable name badge holders add to your professional development library. • Biodegradable water cups • Less packaging for Thursday lunch NEMA ANNUAL LUNCHEON MEETING • Session handouts online (nemanet.org/handouts) Emerald Ballroom 3, Friday, 12:15 – 2 pm • Recycling bins Join us as we present NEMA’s Lifetime Achievement • Coffee mugs instead of paper Award celebrating the career of Marilyn Hoffman. Also celebrate the winners of the NEMA Excellence 2019 PUBLICATION AWARD WINNERS Awards and a recap of NEMA’s year in review. Exhibit Hall Look over the winners of this year’s NEMA Publication RESTROOMS Awards. See the best in design, production, and All are welcome to use the restroom that is right communication. for them.

VISIT THE EXHIBIT HALL & LEARN FAMILY ROOM Lower Level, Wednesday, 8 am – 6 pm; NEMA is a family-friendly conference. We welcome Thursday, 8 am – 3 pm new parents and their small museum fans! For your Learn from leaders in the museum field in this one- convenience, a family room is available. Go to Walk-In stop educational venue for all attendees. Discover new Registration to pick up a key. products and innovative services for our museum community. Unwind in the Exhibit Hall lounge, MAKE PLANS FOR NEWPORT IN 2020! network with collegues, attend a Demonstration Mark your calendar for the 2020 NEMA Conference, Station, and don’t forget get coffee/snack breaks and November 18-20, 2020 in Newport, RI. Session your box lunch (pre-registration required). Enter to proposals are due February 28, 2020. The theme will win raffle prizes from exhibitors and museums. Details be “Who Do We Think We Are? Defining What Makes a in your registration envelope. Museum a Museum”

DINNER DISCUSSIONS QUESTIONS? Explore Burlington’s restaurant scene and enjoy Visit the NEMA Registration Desk from spirited conversation with colleagues. Sign up for an Wednesday, 7:30 am – 5 pm; Thursday 8 am – 5 pm; informal Thursday night dinner discussion at Walk- and Friday, 8 am till noon. In Registration. Space is limited. You are responsible for transportation and dinner costs. Wednesday, November 6 NEMA FITNESS Introduction to Analyzing Open-Ended 6:30 – 7:00 am Audience Data: Impact Beyond the Numbers Join NEMA Director Dan Yaeger for his annual Diamond Ballroom 1 kick-off-the-conference morning walk. Understanding visitors’ perspectives and experiences is critical to improving offerings and REGISTRATION OPEN demonstrating impact to stakeholders, but many 8:00 am – 5:00 pm museum professionals lack training in systematic Hosted by analysis of qualitative visitor data. Don’t shy away from open-ended questions! This session introduces the language and techniques behind qualitative data analysis, and you will be able to practice two different approaches that can be used to unpack the richness in a wide variety of open- ended visitor data. EXHIBIT HALL OPEN Facilitator: Christina Smiraglia, Research Analyst, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Harvard University, MA Speaker: Lynn Baum, Principal, Turtle Peak NEMA CONFERENCE PREVIEW Consulting, MA 8:00 – 8:30 am Diamond Ballroom 2 Reimagining Meaning in Membership First time at a NEMA conference? Learn how to Emerald Ballroom 3 make the most of it. Grab a coffee in the Exhibit Generally, memberships come with unlimited Hall and join us for tips on how you can use your visits and small member perks, but beyond time to your best advantage. transactional discounts or member-morning Facilitators: Kate McBrien, Principal, McBrien type events how are we connecting personally Museum Consulting, ME (NEMA Board); Amanda to our members? This session will explore some Goodheart Parks, Director of Education, New England of the latest trends in museum membership and Air Museum, CT then break into think-tank tables to explore ways of personalizing the membership experience. You will get a chance to share ideas to increase WELCOME COFFEE AND MORNING engagement, foster personal relevance, and TREATS IN THE EXHIBIT HALL strengthen your membership base. 8:00 – 8:45 am Facilitator: Nina Ridhibhinyo, Director of Programs Hosted by and Strategy, ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, VT Speakers: Alexis DiBartolomeo, Membership and Events Manager, Shelburne Museum, VT; Kerin Durfee, Director of Earned Revenue and Guest CONCURRENT SESSIONS Services, ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, 8:45 – 10:15 am VT; Bill Elliston, Curator of Education, Wildlife Conservation Society, Prospect Park Zoo, NY Inclusive Audience Engagement in a Gallery Setting Setting and Achieving Goals for the New Emerald Ballroom 1 Yale Peabody Museum In this session you will explore visual art pieces Emerald Ballroom 2 through a model of inclusive gallery tours initially Making goals for a museum renovation is hard, developed for people with dementia and their but sticking to them throughout the design is care providers through a partnership between even harder. With construction starting in 2020, VSAVT, VABVI, and the Flynn Center. Following the Yale Peabody Museum is embarking on a an overview of the program, you’ll examine new era, one that increases student engagement techniques and strategies demonstrated during and collections-based teaching. From addressing the gallery tours and consider how these can be K through 12 logistics to meeting sustainability applied to your own practice and with a variety objectives, the Director and Lead Architects will of populations based on universal design for address how a design includes everyone. learning. Facilitator: Justin Hedde, Associate Principal, Facilitators: Heidi Swevens, Director of Community Centerbrook Architects, CT Partnerships and Alexandra Turner, Inclusive Arts Speakers: Mark Simon, Principal, Centerbrook Specialist, Inclusive Arts Vermont Architects; David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody Museum, CT

2 2019 Annual NEMA Conference Statewide Collaborations: What’s In It What Is the Place? Why Am I Here? for Me? Amphitheatre Valcour Museum professionals who work in visitor In January 2020, the Vermont Curators Group will services are often met with the challenge of a launch the project, “2020 Vision: Seeing the World “fifth season,” whether it’s a holiday celebration, Through Technology.” Participating institutions community event, or abundance of group travel. will mount exhibitions around the theme, and the Museums and historic sites are turned into group will pool resources to market their efforts. “attractions” bringing in visitors with different Statewide collaborations—art and history trails, needs and expectations than at other points thematic marketing, acquisition consortiums— during the year. This session will address two have proliferated in New England in recent years. topic areas—internal self-care practices for staff to Panelists representing several states and project maintain their best attitudes and external, visitor- types will have an open and frank discussion focused practices that ensure visitors have the best about their benefits and challenges. possible experiences during peak seasons. Facilitator: Andrea Rosen, Curator, Fleming Museum Facilitator: Julie Arrison-Bishop, Special Projects of Art, University of Vermont Manager, The House of the Seven Gables, MA Speakers: Jessica Skwire Routhier, Arts Writer and Speakers: Rachel Christ, Education Director, Salem Editor and Managing Editor, Panorama, the Journal of Witch Museum, MA; Ryan Conary, Program the Association of Historians of American Art; Gillian Manager, Essex National Heritage Area, MA; Emily Sewake, Project Manager, “2020 Vision: Seeing the Holmes, Education Director, Paul Revere House, MA World Through Technology,” a project of the Vermont Curators Group; Carey Mack Weber, Frank and Clara What Went into It and What We’re Meditz Executive Director, Fairfield University Art Learning: Two IMLS Collections Museum, CT Stewardship Projects in Vermont Shelburne The “We” of Board Chair-CEO Leadership Ever wonder what goes into writing a successful Kingsland IMLS Museums for America Collections Trust and communication are key components Stewardship grant proposal? Interested in of the relationship between Board Chair and improving storage for garments or gaining a CEO. In times of great change, whether it’s new better understanding of your collections care leadership, financial, staff or community trouble, needs? In 2018, Shelburne Museum and Fleming or new strategic plans, this connection is critical. Museum at the University of Vermont were each In this session, three Chair-CEO teams will share awarded IMLS Museums for America grants for successes and painful moments, and reflect on collections stewardship projects. In this panel how trust built through a recent hiring process, discussion, project directors will share how they community linkages, and strategic planning, is prepared for writing these proposals, what they indispensable. have learned from their projects so far, and what Facilitator: Phelan Fretz, Executive Director, ECHO, aspects of their projects could be easily adapted Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, VT for use at small and mid-sized institutions. Speakers: Lucy Hale, President and CEO, EcoTarium, Facilitator: Nancie Ravenel, Objects Conservator, MA; Amanda McMullen, President and CEO and Shelburne Museum, VT Tony Sapienza, Board Chair, New Bedford Whaling Speakers: Carolyn Frisa, Paper Conservator, Works Museum, MA on Paper, VT; Sarah Stevens, Textile Conservator, Zephyr Preservation Studio, NY; Margaret Tamulonis, The Art of Race and Relationship Building Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, Fleming Diamond Ballroom 2 Museum of Art, University of Vermont The RISD Museum and the Center for (continued on page 5) Reconciliation co-developed a program series called The Art of Race, which utilizes inquiry- based pedagogy to spark complex discussions with public audiences about the history of race POET in America. In this session, you will participate Give your brain a break by TREE in a model program, learn about the successes visiting the Exhibit Hall to and challenges of the program, and leave with 'leaf' your thoughts on our strategies for developing partnerships grounded Poet Tree. Use one of the in shared authority that support inclusive and provided prompts or consult your own sustainable programming, especially around creative impulses to reflect on your fraught themes or topics. experience, pay tribute to the beautiful Facilitator: Alexandra Poterack, Associate Educator, Vermont setting, or indulge in some Public and Academic Programs, RISD Museum, RI museum-themed doggerel. Keep your Speaker: Elon Cook Lee, Program Director & Curator, poem or add it to the display, and enjoy Center for Reconciliation, RI the creativity of your colleagues!

Burlington, Vermont 3 4 2019 Annual NEMA Conference KEYNOTE SESSION 10:30 am – Noon KEYNOTE Emerald Ballroom 1 and 2 Indigenous Land Acknowledgement with Vera Longtoe Sheehan (Abenaki), Director, Vermont Abenaki Artists Association. Welcome from Dawn E. Salerno, President, New England Museum Association and NEMA Executive Director Dan Yaeger. Welcome from Keynote Sponsor Pradeep Aradhya, CEO, Novus Laurus.

Driving While Black: At the Intersection of Race, Social Justice, and Museum Practice NEMA is proud to present Dr. Sorin will speak about her research for the Dr. Gretchen Sorin as the upcoming book Driving While Black: African keynote speaker for the 2019 American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights and annual conference. PBS documentary produced by Ric Burns and For more than 30 years, Dr. Steeplechase Films, to be released early 2020. Sorin has served the field as Her vantage point at the intersection of museum educator, director, museums, history, and DEAI are sure to and consultant to more than provide valuable insights into the issues 200 museums around the confronting our institutions today. U.S. Currently the director of the Cooperstown Hosted by Graduate Program, she is committed to training the next generation of museum professionals, supporting diversity in the museum field, and encouraging museums to be more active in civic responsibility and social justice.

STORY TELLING SESSIONS DEMONSTRATION STATION Brief Presentations with Big Meaning 9:30 – 10:00 am 8:45 – 9:45 am VR, AR, and Spatial Computing: Engaging Willsboro Museum Visitors with Immersive Technologies Vision/Action: Mobilizing Cultural Exhibit Hall Communities to Tackle Climate Change Aaron Schwartzbard, CTO and Co-founder, Frameless Join us for a Storytelling Session that highlights Technologies, VA the recent work of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Cultural Institutions Working Group as it seeks to mobilize museums and BOOKSTORE OPEN cultural organizations around the topic of climate Noon – 5:00 pm change. Come learn how Boston-area institutions Registration Area are working together to implement energy and Hosted by resilience plans for their facilities, and develop programs that help staff and audiences process and take action on issues related to climate change. Speaker: Amy Longsworth, Director and Annie Lundsten, Consultant, Green Ribbon Commission, MA OPENING LUNCH Noon – 12:45 pm Boating for Everybody Emerald Ballroom 1 and 3, Ticket Required On-water activities like fishing, boating, and swimming are great ways for families and individuals of all ages to stay healthy and active DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES LUNCH during the summer months. The Antique Boat Noon – 12:45 pm Museum is seeking to break down barriers for Petit Dejeuner, Ticket Required the increasingly diverse year-round population Hosted by of Northern New York through education and programming that introduces new boaters to basic safety, our region’s unique biosphere, and the variety of non-motorized craft that are affordable and user-friendly. Speaker: Amanda Dudley, Director of Education, Antique Boat Museum, NY

Burlington, Vermont 5 DESSERT AND COFFEE IN Sweets! Champlain Longboats: All in the Same Boat at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum EXHIBIT HALL Ticket holders meet at the conference center lobby at 12:45 – 1:15 pm 1:15 pm. Bus will leave at 1:20 pm. Speakers: Charlie Beyer, Boat Builder and Educator, NEMA BOARD AND PAG INFORMATION Elizabeth Lee, Education Director, Susan McClure, SESSION Executive Director, and Nick Patch, Director of 12:45 – 1:15 pm Champlain Longboats, Lake Champlain Maritime Exhibit Hall Museum, VT Interested in leadership opportunities with NEMA? Join us for an informal information session about Rising from the Ashes: UVM Redesigns its the “inner workings” of your museum association Natural History Museum after a Fire and how you might help move our mission to the Ticket holders meet at the conference center lobby at next level. We’ll talk about the NEMA Board of 1:25 pm. Bus will leave at 1:30 pm. Directors, our Professional Affinity Groups (PAGs), Speakers: David S. Barrington, Museum Director and and other opportunities for leadership. So grab your Sonia DeYoung, Curatorial Assistant, University of coffee and come on by! Vermont Natural History Museum; Richard Kerschner, Conservation and Preservation Specialist, VT OFF-SITE SESSIONS 1:10 – 4:45 pm CAREER CONVERSATION “Free & Safe:” Social Justice at the Rokeby WITH GRETCHEN SORIN Museum 1:15 – 2:15 pm Ticket holders meet at the conference center lobby at Valcour 1:10 pm. Bus will leave at 1:15 pm. Join Dr. Gretchen Sorin of the Cooperstown Graduate Program for Speakers: Catherine Brooks, Executive Director, Marty a look at her career and a discussion Dewees, Board Chair, Elise Guyette, Board Member, and of working in the museum field. Gretchen is Jane Williamson, Director Emerita, Rokeby Museum, VT director and Distinguished Professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, a museum studies program dedicated to the museum as a public

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You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto: Dealing DEMONSTRATION STATION with Communication and Conflict 1:15 – 1:45 pm Emerald Ballroom 1 Planning to Design a Visitor Experience or Good organizational culture is a key element to Exhibits? Empathy and Audience Research developing a high-performing team and fostering Hacks for Design Thinking Success a positive workplace. Participants will learn Exhibit Hall how to communicate effectively with teams in Larissa A. Hansen Hallgren, Principal, Experience the workplace. We will look at our individual Design, MA styles and the possible styles of those we work with in internal and external teams, and discuss SESSION BREAK the best ways to be clear and effective in our communications with each other. This session 2:15 – 2:30 pm will talk about real-world strategies when dealing with communication conflicts with co-workers, supervisors, and employees. We’ll also talk about those silent forms of communication that we have to pay attention to when working in team, organizational, and cultural norms, and try to work together to develop action plans for those in the midst of a communication crisis. Speaker: Wyona Lynch-McWhite, Vice President, Arts Consulting Group, MA (NEMA Board)

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10 2019 Annual NEMA Conference Historical Interpretation in the Woods: On- Real IMPact (or, The Value of IMPs) Line Mapping for Your Museum Kingsland Valcour Are you weighing the costs and benefits of hiring The Dorset Historical Society has created several an Independent Museum Professional (IMP)? Are popular online maps of historic districts, historic you an IMP, or prospective IMP, wondering how sites, and old hiking trails. See the ways you can to price your products or services? Are you just update your institution’s old walking tours with on- curious about the monetary and non-monetary line maps. effects of IMPs on museum projects? Come hear Facilitator: Jon Mathewson, Curator, Dorset Historical about the real impact of IMPs,—both challenges and Society, VT advantages— through examples of IMP-supported projects and preliminary results from the 2019 New It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for England Independent Museum Professionals Fee the Holidays at Your Historic Site Survey. Emerald Ballroom 1 Facilitator: Rebecca Migdal, Independent Museum & For many historic sites, Christmas and New Year’s Collections Consultant, MA are the most-visited times of the year, but they often struggle with interpreting the holidays. Speakers: Camille Breeze, Director & Chief Conservator, In this session, panelists will briefly present the Museum Textile Services, MA; Christie Jackson, Senior evolution of holiday traditions, then offer resources Curator, The Trustees of Reservations, MA; Ernesto for research. You’ll hear about curatorial issues and Mendoza, One By Design, MA; Claudia Ocello, concerns, how to solve problems including pressure Museum Partners Consulting, NJ; Danielle Steinmann, on staff, lack of storage space, etc., and how Director of Visitor Interpretation, The Trustees, MA celebrating the holidays can increase attendance and become a substantial source of revenue. Working Together Equitably: Reframing our Thinking from “What’s in it for Me?” to Facilitator: Kenneth Turino, Manager of Community “What’s in it for Us?” Engagement and Exhibitions, Historic New England, MA Diamond Ballroom 2 Speakers: Karla Rosenstein, Site Manager, The Eustis Women in the museum field continue to struggle Estate, Historic New England, MA; Gregory R. Weidman, with long-entrenched barriers like pay inequity, Curator, Hampton National Historic Site, MD professional advancement, parental leave policies, and of course, harassment. While this outlook may Making Sense of Numbers: Storytelling and Finance at Museums (continued on page 12) Amphitheatre Back by popular demand! How many of us feel less than thrilled about numbers? This session introduces basic principles of museum finance. Engaging financial oversight with mission and interpretation, you’ll get insights into how to cultivate confidence and strategy amongst museum administrators and trustees without formal training in finance. Part pep talk, part discussion, we will address the preparation for and execution of sound and strategic financial planning in small museums of all kinds. Facilitator: Rebekah Beaulieu, Director, Florence Griswold Museum, CT (NEMA Board)

Pitching Camp: The Hidden Benefits of Summer Camp Programs Emerald Ballroom 2 This session will break open the world of summer camps! Discuss the barriers to starting and maintaining camps. Brainstorm how to use camps to draw in new audiences and strengthen ties to schools and community. Hear from teenagers inspired by camp experiences to stay engaged with museums into adulthood. Take time to examine the assets of your institution, generate ideas for innovative programming, and discover how summer camps could benefit all aspects of your museum. Facilitator: Rebecca Coppola, Director of Education, Strawbery Banke Museum, NH Speakers: Maddie Behil, Roleplaying Coordinator, Strawbery Banke Museum, NH; Lucy Gilchrist, Student, Phillips Exeter Academy, NH; Emma Kinsey, Student, Oyster River High School, NH Burlington, Vermont 11 (continued from page 11) since four Abenaki Tribes were recognized by the State of Vermont. This case study provides context seem grim, this session will draw intersectional for frank discussion of issues such as appreciation inspiration from individuals who have enacted versus appropriation of Indigenous culture, and change in their own workplaces. You will leave the acknowledging Indigenous authority. session with an understanding of both implicit and explicit gender biases and resources for shifting the Speakers: Vera Longtoe Sheehan (Abenaki), Director, mindset of “what’s in it for me?” to include “what’s Vermont Abenaki Artists Association; Eloise Beil, in it for us?” Director of Collections and Exhibits, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, VT Facilitator: Elise Couture-Stone, Independent Museum Professional, MA Maybe It’s Just Not a Place for Me: Speakers: Anne Ackerson, Gender Equity in Museums Fostering Inclusive Cultural Critique Movement, NY; Wyona Lynch-McWhite, Vice President, Critique is a hallmark of the art field, yet the vast Arts Consulting Group, MA (NEMA Board); Erin majority of cultural critics, curators, museum Wederbrook Yuskaitis, Co-Director of Education, Old leadership and museum visitors are white and North Church and Historic Site, MA affluent. What is critique without diversity? The artist-run project “Look at Art. Get Paid” hired 41 STORY TELLING SESSIONS Rhode Islanders who don’t go to art museums to visit the RISD Museum as guest critics. Hear from Brief Presentations with Big Meaning the critics and artists directly. 2:30 – 3:30 pm Willsboro Speakers: Josephine Devanbu and Maia Chao, Co-Lead Artists, Look at Art. Get Paid., RI Wearing Our Heritage: A Case Study in Decolonization Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Vermont COFFEE BREAK IN THE Abenaki Artists Association worked together to EXHIBIT HALL Coffee! create a decolonized exhibition and programs 3:30 – 4:00 pm called “Wearing Our Heritage.” This “How We Did It” presentation describes the challenges, opportunities, and outcomes of presenting BOOK SIGNING Indigenous perspectives on history and culture 3:30 – 4:00 pm Registration Area Anne Ackerson will be signing copies of her book Leadership Matters: Leading Museums in an Age of Discord, Second Edition co-written with Joan H. Baldwin.

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Audience, Access & Across-Sector Collaboration Shelburne How can a small museum reach more students? Visiting individual classrooms is great, but time consuming. Tight budgets and time constraints curtail teachers’ ability to bring their students to you. In this session we will describe a collaboration between four unusual partners - a small museum, a National Park site, a government agency, and a private foundation - and the program that they offered to over 1,500 students over the course of one month. Facilitator: Lane Sparkman, Associate Director of Education and Public Programs, RI Department of State Speaker: Lorén Spears, Executive Director, Tomaquag Museum, RI (NEMA Board)

Cato & Dolly: Engaging Audiences and Sharing Unheard Voices Through Theatre Kingsland The immediacy and intimacy of theatrical performance can engage visitors and enhance their museum experience while amplifying exhibit

12 2019 Annual NEMA Conference content and challenging questions. The Bostonian photography exhibit “If She Has a Pulse, She Has Society created a new play, Cato & Dolly, to expose a Chance,” and the Vermont History and Health’s audiences at Boston’s Old State House to often work to contextualize this public health issue. unheard historical voices, as their institutional Facilitator: Newton Rose, Principle Museum Consultant, mission became more expansive and inclusive. Vermont History & Health Learn about the potential to use theatre to expand Speakers: Danny Lichtenfeld, Director, Brattleboro and diversify the perspectives and voices you’re Museum & Art Center, VT; Corie Lyford, Studio sharing at your institution. Outreach Manager, and Lynn Thomson, Assistant Facilitator: Patrick Gabridge, Producing Artistic Director of Art Education/Community Engagement, Director, Plays in Place, MA Currier Museum of Art, NH Speakers: Jon Ferreira, Interpretive Programs Developer, The Bostonian Society, MA; Courtney O’Connor, On the Road: Rewards and Challenges of Associate Artist, Plays in Place, MA Off-Site Exhibits Amphitheatre From the Inside Out – How to Engage Your “What’s in it for me?” when we create off-site Public Within and Beyond the Museum’s exhibits? We’ll share multiple examples from Wall a small historical society and mid-size history Diamond Ballroom 2 museum, including the Historical Society of Maximizing employees’ engagement and Greenfield’s recent “Signs of Other Times” transforming the visitor experience are outcomes installation at a local bank and the Pocumtuck of a journey undertaken in 2016 by Montreal’s Valley Memorial Association/Memorial Hall McCord Stewart Museum, a participatory and Museum’s “The Time of My Life—Vintage Views community-oriented institution. So how does a of Western Massachusetts” exhibit which traveled museum involve its own team and its visitors to multiple venues. Discussion includes rewards, to become a playground for change and better challenges, tips for success, and avoiding pitfalls. understanding? Based on key learnings and case Facilitator: Sheila Damkoehler, Outreach Coordinator, studies, this session will tell the story of this not-so- Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association/Memorial Hall small revolution that has transformed the museum Museum, MA from the inside out. Speaker: Meg Baker, Board Secretary, Historical Society Speakers: Pascale Grignon, Director, Marketing, of Greenfield, MA Communications and Visitor Experience, and Mélanie (continued on page 15) Deveault, Head of Education, Community Engagement and Cultural Programs, Musée McCord Stewart, QC

Getting Their Foot in the Door: Strategies for Mentoring and Working with High School and College-Age Volunteers, Interns, and Staff Diamond Ballroom 1 Stumped on how best to engage young interns, volunteers, and part-time staff at your museum? Join a discussion about strategies for mentoring and working with teen and college-level interns and employees in museums, facilitated by experienced staff from a range of institutions. Participants will have an opportunity to put themselves in an intern’s shoes, work through common challenging situations, and walk away with concrete strategies for mentoring their young staff, interns, and volunteers. Facilitator: Christina Errico, Coordinator, Informal Engineering & Computer Science Learning, Museum of Science, Boston, MA Speaker: Katia Christakis, Studio Art Program Coordinator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Healing Spaces: Museums Respond to the Opioid Epidemic Emerald Ballroom 1 How can museums address the opioid epidemic? How can we be places of hope and healing? This session will explore different approaches cultural Museum Planning Exhibition Design Media Design Environmental Graphics organizations have taken including the Currier Museum of Art’s program called the “Art of Hope,” www.healykohler.com 202-774-5555 the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center’s recent

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(continued from page 13) DEMONSTRATION STATION Protecting Collections in an LED Lighting 4:15 – 4:45 pm Age Herstory Unsanitized Emerald Ballroom 3 Exhibit Hall Should you use LEDs or Fiber Optic Lighting in Ehris Urban and Velya Jancz-Urban, Grounded your display cases? What is the right approach for Goodwife, LLC lighting delicate artifacts in 2019? We will explore a variety of lighting techniques including: light EXHIBIT HALL OPENING sources, occupancy sensors, and lighting control RECEPTION systems. We will also present a case study detailing Mingle! the conservation issues regarding the lighting of 5:00 – 6:00 pm George Washington’s Tent at the Museum of the A great way to wind down your American Revolution in Philadelphia. afternoon! Join us for drinks and delicious hors d’oeuvres Facilitator: Steven Rosen, FIALD, President and in the action-packed Exhibit Hall, the place to be Creative Director, Available Light, Inc., MA for interacting with the latest innovative products Speakers: Derek Barnwell, Assoc. IALD, Principal, and services. Get your raffle cards signed for great Available Light, MA; David Seibert, Director of prizes (drawing is Thursday afternoon), chat with Exhibition Design, Peabody Essex Museum, MA friends, and relax a bit before your evening starts. Happy hour indeed! Quality over Quantity: Telling the Story of Your Museum Volunteers with Strategic Impact Measures Emerald Ballroom 2 Museums depend on volunteers to help serve visitors and assist behind the scenes. But just how exactly do volunteers enhance the visitor experience? That’s the question we answer when we develop strategic volunteer impact measures. In this hands-on session, participants will consider two common volunteer roles—the docent and information desk volunteer—and work together to create an impact measure for each role. Learn step- by-step how to demonstrate your volunteers’ value to a wider audience. Facilitator: Elisa Kosarin, Volunteer Engagement Specialist, Twenty Hats, VA OPENING PARTY! Speaker: Ellary Gamache, Visitor Experience and Logistics Coordinator, ECHO AFTER DARK! Rhode Island Historical Society Updated Day/Time 6:00 – 9:00 pm What IS in It for Me? Start your NEMA Conference Willsboro off with some high-energy science. How can we begin to truly understand who our Come experience ECHO, Leahy Center young adult audiences are and how do we use for Lake Champlain After Dark! ECHO this knowledge to build and sustain successful is an innovative science and nature youth programs in formats that work for students? center located on Burlington’s scenic Students and staff from The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and New Bedford Whaling waterfront. Museum will share what they have tried, learned, Ticket holders meet at the conference center accomplished, and look forward to while engaging lobby at 6 pm. Buses will leave at 6:10 pm. in museum-based youth development programs. Facilitator: Elizabeth Lee, Director of Education, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, VT Speakers: Matt Harrison, LCMM Educator and former AmeriCorps member, Nick Patch, Director of Champlain Longboats, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, VT; Maria Cardoso, Alumni Apprentice, Yamilex Ramos Peguero, Alumni Apprentice, Christina Turner, Director of Education, New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA

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INDEPENDENT MUSEUM to learn about two exhibition galleries with two different levels of community engagement, and PROFESSIONALS AFFINITY GROUP discuss the benefits and pitfalls of opening your BREAKFAST galleries to other organizations. 7:30 – 8:30 am Speakers: Eileen Corcoran, Community Engagement & Petit Dejeuner Media Coordinator and Amanda Gustin, Public Program Breakfast will be provided for those who registered for it Manager, Vermont Historical Society; Bill Budde, in advance and have a ticket. All may attend the meeting. Arlington Historical Society, MA; Jocelyn Hebert, Green Start your day with coffee and colleagues at the Mountain Club, VT IMP PAG annual breakfast meeting. This session is open to all, from seasoned IMPs to those curious about being an IMP. We will discuss PAG activities CONCURRENT SESSIONS for the year and the new American Alliance of 8:45 – 10:15 am Museums (AAM) professional network for IMPs. Representatives of the professional network will All Hands on Deck! Delivering That Rich lead a discussion about this exciting new group Museum Content Virtually! and resource! Diamond Ballroom 1 The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum has begun PAG Co-chairs: Rebecca Migdal, Museum Consultant, experimenting with the delivery of virtual offerings MA; Ernesto Mendoza, One By Design, MA from its rich collection of artifacts to schools across Presenters: Claudia Ocello, Museum Partners Vermont. This past Fall, the museum started to Consulting, NJ; Laura Roberts, Roberts Consulting, MA experiment with “broadcasting” content from the Battle of Valcour Island collection and sharing REGISTRATION OPEN through video connections. The experience was 8:00 am – 5:00 pm a success and the museum is looking to extend its reach over New England. Are other museums Hosted by interested in joining this conversation? Facilitator: Peter Drescher, State Director of Education Technology, VT Agency of Education Speakers: Elizabeth Lee, Education Director and Chris Sabick, Archaeological Director, Lake Champlain BOOKSTORE OPEN Maritime Museum, VT 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Area Boundless Museums: Breaking Down Hosted by Barriers for All Visitors Amphitheatre What exhibition strategies will help us attract higher attendance, provide more meaningful experiences, and earn the trust of non-traditional museum goers? A presentation of museum projects EXHIBIT HALL OPEN that include an immersive Van Gogh For All 8:00 am – 3:00 pm exhibition, a thought-provoking labeling initiative based on Colonial portraits, exhibition learning WAKE-UP COFFEE AND MORNING lounges and bilingual labels, and underrepresented TREATS IN EXHIBIT HALL LGBT histories at an historic house, will set the stage for this interactive session. Please come with 8:00 – 8:45 am your own exhibition “case study” challenge to share Hosted by in workgroup discussions. Facilitator: Kay Simpson, President/CEO, Springfield Museums, MA OFF-SITE SESSION Speakers: Barbara Callahan, Education Fellow and Erin Corrales-Diaz, Assistant Curator of Art, Worcester Art 8:45 – 11:30 am Museum, MA; Laura Howick, Director of Education, Share and Share Alike: Community Exhibit Fitchburg Art Museum, MA Spaces Ticket holders meet at the conference center lobby at Fundraising for All of Us - It’s a Team 8:45 am. Bus will leave at 8:50 am. Effort! Do you ever think about opening up your Emerald Ballroom 2 exhibition space to outside organizations? Do you Fundraising–it’s not so scary! In this session you think it will make your life easier or harder? Maybe will learn effective ways to motivate staff and board both? Travel to the Vermont History Museum members to be better fundraisers and hear strategies

16 2019 Annual NEMA Conference for attracting and retaining members. Together, priority in our national conversation. Museums, we’ll brainstorm 100 Fresh Ideas for Events (and especially those in New England, are being called to what appeals to younger people), and panelists will advance the conversation in meaningful ways. How lead a 30-minute exercise around major gifts, where can museums best engage with the issue of climate participants practice Making the Ask. This session is change? How do we convince our board, staff, and geared for participants new to development. stakeholders to become more socially responsible? Facilitator: Kristina Durocher, Director, Museum of Art, Do we pursue green practices in our operations or University of New Hampshire (NEMA Board) are we guilty of “greenwashing” to make ourselves feel better? Is there an existential threat to our Speakers: Dawn E. Salerno, Executive Director, Rotch- museum and collection from climate change, and Jones-Duff House, MA (NEMA Board); Pilar Garro, what can we do about it? This Think Tank session Director of Development, House of Seven Gables, MA is an opportunity to explore issues and engage our (NEMA Board); Doug Perkins, Associate Director, NEMA community in creative solutions that make a Operations and Finance, Middlebury College Museum difference to our field’s future. of Art, VT (NEMA Board); Marieke Van Damme, Executive Director, Cambridge Historical Society, MA Moderator: Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New (NEMA Board) England Museum Association, MA Facilitators: Thomas Denenberg, Executive Director, Hot Issues and Deep Reflection: Programs Shelburne Museum, VT; Phelan Fretz, Executive to Enter the Heart of Hard Subjects Director, ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, VT; Kingsland Matt Kirchman, Principal, ObjectIdea, MA (NEMA In response to troubling times, museums large Board); Annie Lundsten, Consultant, Boston Green and small are presenting art, history, and science Ribbon Commission, MA; Kelsey Mullen, Director of exhibitions which face serious, immediate Education, Providence Preservation Society, RI; Laurie issues that are frightening, divisive, raw, and Pasteryak, Curator of Exhibitions, Fairfield Museum and politically fraught. In this session, we share lessons History Center, CT learned and original techniques for constructing (continued on page 18) experiential programming around difficult, but necessary, issues of contemporary life in support of both museum staff and visitors. Facilitator: Annie V.F. Storr, Resident Scholar, Brandeis CGP_NEMA_AD_2018.qxp_Layout 1 10/11/18 10:57 AM Page 1 University, WSRC and Kniznick Gallery, MA Speaker: Sara Zela, Education and Communications SUNY ONEONTA Manager, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire

Photographing and Digitizing Collections: Essential Approaches for Success Shelburne Digital projects are essential for outreach initiatives, making collections available to national and international audiences, as well as documenting objects within our museums as a record or snapshot of their current intrinsic value. However, photography or digital projects, especially on a large scale, can be daunting. Learn diverse approaches and fundamental skills to manage any size project whether for exhibition, publication, or online platforms while meeting professional standards of the 21st Century. Facilitator: Christina Milliman, Principal, C. Ely Milliman Consulting, NY Speakers: Kristen Costa, Curator, Newport Restoration Foundation, RI; Michelle VanAuken, Information Technologist, University Museums at Colgate University, NY

Museums and Climate Change Think Emerald Ballroom 1 Tank Only a few years ago, it seemed that climate change was an issue on the distant horizon. Now, it seems that T H E cgpmuseumstudies.org climate change is suddenly upon us, with crazier- Cooperstown G R A D U ATE 607.547.2586 than-normal weather “events,” ever more urgent PROGRAM atmospheric predictions, and increasingly shrill political dialogue. The topic has vaulted to a high

Burlington, Vermont 17 (continued from page 17) your career path with intention. You will leave with a fully-articulated personal mission statement and Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems ideas on how to utilize it to focus your path, filter Throughout the Museum career opportunities, and fuel your work. Valcour Design Thinking is a problem-solving methodology Facilitator: Tara Young, Tara Young Consulting, MA most commonly used in the museum field for Speakers: Elise Couture-Stone, Certified Fundraising exhibit design challenges. However, this human- Executive (CFRE), Independent Museum Events and centered approach can be applied to a variety of Fundraising Consultant, MA; Betsy Loring, Project programmatic and operational challenges. This Manager & Museum Exhibit Developer, Loring conference session will provide an overview of Collaborative Consulting, MA; Carole Ann Penney, Design Thinking, and an interactive introduction Strategic Career Coach, Penney Leadership, LLC, RI to the process. Presenters will discuss how they have used Design Thinking to plan a special event, STORY TELLING SESSIONS support visitors with special needs, and design an Brief Presentations with Big Meaning early childhood exhibition. 8:45 – 9:45 am Facilitator: Sherlock Terry, Director of Exhibits, Willsboro Montshire Museum of Science, VT Speakers: Trish Palao, Marketing and Communications A Balancing Act: Revitalizing and Manager and Jennifer Rickards, Deputy Director, Transforming the Historic House Montshire Museum of Science, VT Museum through Authentic Engagement Experiences to Develop New Audiences & Growth Your Personal Mission: Connecting to the This session focuses on how small historic sites WHY Behind Your Work can create dynamic programming and authentic Emerald Ballroom 3 experiences of integrity while also attracting new Museum professionals embody the missions of visitors for audience growth and development. their organizations every day. But what’s in it for them? This session guides you to gain clarity on Speakers: Andrea Caluori, Engagement Manager and Sara your personal WHY, your core purpose, so that you Patton Zarelli, Engagement Manager, The Trustees, MA can connect to your work more deeply and develop MTS Museum Textile Services

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18 2019 Annual NEMA Conference Tapping into Social-Emotional Learning Civic Engagement and the Museum: within Middle and High School-Museum Inspiring Our Audiences to Action Partnerships Emerald Ballroom 1 How can museum educators create an effective While many museums seek to create spaces for school partnership that meets the needs of collaboration and conversation, Americans are administration, teachers, students, and the hungry to talk about and engage in the civic museum? This presentation will showcase how, process. To better serve our audiences we can when art museum educators and teaching artists continue learning from one another about how best focus on social-emotional learning, they can to present civic issues in exhibits, interpretation, craft interdisciplinary, dynamic, and personal and institutional messaging. Come hear quick curricula that are appealing and meaningful across examples from the speakers, continue the stakeholders. conversation, and have time to reflect on next steps Speaker: Jessie Magyar, Community Outreach for your work or institution. Coordinator, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, MA Facilitator: Paul Fenton, Senior Community Engagement Coordinator, New England Aquarium, MA DEMONSTRATION STATION Speakers: Emily Dunnack, Director of Education, 9:45 – 10:15 am Old Sturbridge Village, MA; Kelly Kryc, Director of Exhibit Hall Conservation Policy and Leadership, New England “Cato & Dolly,” a performance by Plays in Aquarium, MA; Christina Turner, Director of Place Education, New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA

Deferred Maintenance: Investing in the COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT HALL Upkeep and Care of Our Frontline Staff 10:15 – 10:45 am Diamond Ballroom 1 Hosted by As historic sites tackle issues of social relevance, the work of frontline staff has evolved. Recruitment, training, and compensation models haven’t. Session participants will identify the skills staff need to engage visitors in relevant learning experiences BOOK SIGNING (continued on page 21) 10:15 – 10:45 am Registration Area Kenneth C. Turino will be signing copies of his book Reimaging the Historic House Museum, New Approaches and Proven Solutions, co-edited with Max A. van Balgooy.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Are your Artifacts and Documents Protected? Climate Control Considerations for Small and Medium-Size Museums Shelburne Do you have concerns about how to maintain a proper level of climate control in your museum’s exhibit and storage spaces? This session will focus on practical approaches, particularly for existing buildings. The USS Constitution Museum’s Director of Exhibits and consulting engineers will discuss the merits of tested strategies ranging from humidity and temperature control in gallery spaces, to exhibit case options, to archival storage. We want to hear about your experiences and will reserve time for an interactive discussion. Facilitator: Sherman “Pat” Morss, Life Trustee, USS Constitution Museum, MA (NEMA Board) Speakers: Dan Fisher, Member, Principal Owner, and Scott Fitch, Member, Principal Owner, Innovative Construction & Design Solutions, LLC, CT; Robert Kiihne, Director of Exhibits, USS Constitution Museum, MA

Burlington, Vermont 19 2020 2019 2019 Annual Annual NEMA Conference NEMA Conference (continued from page 19) including institutional planning, exhibition design, technology, and architecture. and the training and support required to make this Facilitator: David Whitemyer, Director of Business work personally and institutionally sustainable. Development, Luci Creative, MA Facilitator: Elisabeth Nevins, Interim Director of Speakers: Elena Kazlas, Principal, ConsultEcon, MA; Education and Exhibitions, Bostonian Society/Old State Matthew Oudens, Principal, Oudens Ello Architecture, House Museum, MA MA; Dan Sullivan, Head of Growth & Partnerships, Speakers: Shannon Burke, Museum Consultant, CT; Cuseum, MA Purvi Patwari, Principal, Segovia HR Solutions, MA Queer Possibility Emotionally Intelligent Leadership Amphitheatre Diamond Ballroom 2 In American culture where heterosexual and There are many ways to lead, and there are many cisgender white patriarchy is considered the skills and traits successful leaders possess. Great default, queer history is ignored, hidden, and leaders accurately read emotions, harness their erased. Interpreting queerness in museums requires power, understand their causes, and effectively intention and creativity. This session will challenge manage. In essence, they are emotionally intelligent. cultural assumptions about sexuality and gender This workshop is not about being positive or identity in museum interpretation using the concept charismatic. It is about assessing your emotional of Queer Possibility. Examine case studies and try skills, leveraging emotions and learning strategies out Queer Possibility interpretive strategies in a to achieve results. This session is for busy leaders hands-on exercise. How might you queer your own who want useful tips on how to strengthen museum practice? emotional intelligence skills using real-life Facilitator: Margaret Middleton, Exhibit Designer, RI examples. (NEMA Board) Facilitator: Phelan Fretz, Executive Director, ECHO, Speakers: Ria Brodell, Artist, Educator, Author, School Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, VT of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Jazzmen Lee- Speaker: Lisa Rees, Owner of LTR Leadership and Johnson, Artist, Curator, Scholar, RI Leadership Coach at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, VT (continued on page 22)

Join a Cultural Heritage Emergency Network? What’s in It for Me? Valcour The cultural heritage embodied, collected, Specialty insurance displayed, and performed by cultural institutions, artists, and arts organizations helps define a for museums community’s identity, capture its history, revel in its spirit, and propel its economic vitality. What can each of us do to protect our nation’s irreplaceable cultural, artistic, and historical resources? From best practices to resources, learn how you can help launch a cultural heritage emergency network in your community, your county, or even your state. Facilitator: Lori Foley, Administrator, Heritage Emergency National Task Force, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), DC Speakers: Rachel Onuf, Vermont Historical Records Program Coordinator, Vermont State Archives & Records Administration; Meg Ostrum, Museum and Arts Consultant, VT

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So You Want to Be A CEO? Emerald Ballroom 2 Repeating one of last year’s most popular sessions! Join a panel of current museum directors for a frank and open discussion of the demands and rewards of museum leadership. Ask your burning questions about life in the corner office: Is it really all about fundraising? What do the panelists wish they would have known before taking their first director role? What are the best (and most challenging) parts of the job? Meet other aspiring leaders and learn a bit about making the move up in the field. Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery Facilitator: Charles Clark, Executive Director, Castle in Ranked #1 worldwide in Cultural Design the Clouds, NH in 2019 by BD World Architecture Speakers: Emma Bray, Executive Director, American Independence Museum, NH; Adam Kane, Executive Director, Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium, VT; Michelle Landry, Superintendent, Roosevelt Campobello International Park, NB

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22 2019 Annual NEMA Conference feed and care for YOU by engaging all five senses The Cafeteria Project in exercises meant to delight, soothe, humor, and Hear the story of how a community college connect. Participate as you care to and are able. generated student interest in its small art collection. Facilitator: Rainey Tisdale, Independent Museum The synopsis: a professor exhibits a work of art in Professional, MA the college cafeteria with a sign inviting students to critique the art on sticky notes. The responses were Speaker: Marieke Van Damme, Executive Director, insightful, touching, and hilarious. Discuss how the Cambridge Historical Society, MA (NEMA Board) program worked and how it might work for you. Speaker: Roland Blanchette, Professor/Curator, STORY TELLING SESSIONS Massasoit Community College, MA Brief Presentations with Big Meaning 10:45 am – 11:45 pm DEMONSTRATION STATION Willsboro 10:45 – 11:15 am Exhibit Hall Hands-On Relevance Designing Data-Based and Member- Many museums offer hands-on programming to Friendly Benefits Strategies further engage visitors with the content of their exhibits. Often created for specific audiences, how David Ellis, Vice President, DoubleKnot can this content be expanded to become relevant to a wider range of people? In this interactive talk, DEMONSTRATION STATION you will learn how the MIT Museum has designed 11:30 am – Noon active learning workshops for students, educators, Exhibit Hall and adults that, without changing the overall Basics of Moldmaking and Casting framing, contextualize learning to be relevant to the Jim Sanotianni, Materials/Applications Specialist, interests and needs of these groups. Reynolds Advanced Materials Speaker: Brian Mernoff, Education Coordinator, MIT Museum, MA PAG LUNCHES 12:15 – 2:15 pm (See page 26-27 for descriptions.)

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Burlington, Vermont 23 Quick Glance 1:15 – 2:15 pm Story Telling Sessions, Willsboro A New Twist on Living History & Visitor Engagement WEDNESDAY Who Moved My Museum? 8:00 am – 6:00 pm 1:15 – 1:45 pm Exhibit Hall Open Demonstration Station, Exhibit Hall Empathy & Audience Research Hacks for Design Thinking 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Open 2:15 – 2:30 pm Session Break 8:00 – 8:30 am NEMA Conference Preview, Diamond Ballroom 2 2:30 – 3:00 pm Demonstration Station, Exhibit Hall 8:00 – 8:45 am Mini PD Welcome Coffee & Morning Treats, Exhibit Hall 2:30 – 3:15 pm 8:45 – 10:15 am Mindfulness Break, Shelburne Concurrent Sessions Inclusive Audience Engagement, Emerald Ballroom 1 2:30 – 3:30 pm Intro to Analyzing Open-Ended Data, Diamond Ballroom 1 Concurrent Sessions Reimagining Meaning in Membership, Emerald Ballroom 3 “Is This Thing On?”, Emerald Ballroom 3 Setting and Achieving Goals, Emerald Ballroom 2 Engage All Ages, Diamond Ballroom 1 Statewide Collaborations: What’s in it for me?, Valcour Historical Interpretation in the Woods, Valcour The “We” of Board Chair-CEO Leadership, Kingsland It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning, Emerald Ballroom 1 The Art of Race & Relationship Building, Diamond Ballroom 2 Making Sense of Numbers, Amphitheatre What Is the Place? Why Am I Here?, Amphitheatre Pitching Camp, Emerald Ballroom 2 What Went into It and What We’re Learning, Shelburne Real IMPact (or, The Value of IMPs), Kingsland Working Together Equitably, Diamond Ballroom 2 8:45 – 9:45 am Story Telling Sessions, Willsboro 2:30 – 3:30 pm Mobilizing Cultural Communities to Tackle Climate Change Story Telling Sessions, Willsboro Boating for Everybody Wearing Our Heritage: A Case Study in Decolonization Maybe It’s Just Not a Place for Me 9:30 – 10:00 am Demonstration Station, Exhibit Hall 3:30 – 4:00 pm VR, AR, and Spatial Computing Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

10:30 am – Noon 3:30 – 4:00 pm Keynote Session Book Signing, Registration Area Emerald Ballroom 1 and 2 4:00 – 5:00 pm Noon – 5:00 pm Concurrent Sessions Bookstore Open Audience, Access & Across-Sector Collaboration, Shelburne Engaging Audiences & Sharing Unheard Voices, Kingsland Noon – 12:45 pm From the Inside Out, Diamond Ballroom 2 Opening Lunch, Emerald Ballroom 1 and 3 Getting Their Foot in the Door, Diamond Ballroom 1 Noon – 12:45 pm Healing Spaces, Emerald Ballroom 1 Directors and Trustees Lunch, Petit Dejeuner On the Road, Amphitheatre Protecting Collections in an LED Age, Emerald Ballroom 3 12:45 – 1:15 pm Quality over Quantity, Emerald Ballroom 2 Dessert and Coffee in Exhibit Hall What IS in It for Me?, Willsboro 12:45 – 1:15 pm 4:15 – 4:45 pm NEMA Board & PAG Info Session, Exhibit Hall Demonstration Station, Exhibit Hall 1:10 – 4:45 pm Herstory Unsanitized Off-site Sessions “Free & Safe:” Social Justice at the Rokeby Museum 5:00 – 6:00 pm Champlain Longboats: Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Exhibit Hall Opening Reception Rising from the Ashes: UVM Natural History Museum 6:00 – 9:00 pm 1:15 – 2:15 pm Welcome to NEMA 2019! ECHO After Dark Career Conversation with Gretchen Sorin Valcour THURSDAY 1:15 – 2:15 pm 7:30 – 8:30 am Concurrent Sessions IMP PAG Breakfast, Petit Dejeuner Giving Teachers What They Want, Amphitheatre Hands-on Learning for Grown Ups, Diamond Ballroom 1 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Otto Dix’s The Pregnant Woman, Shelburne Registration and Bookstore Open Strategic Planning and ME, Emerald Ballroom 2 8:00 am – 3:00 pm Successful Network Building, Diamond Ballroom 2 Exhibit Hall Open Special Technology Offer for NEMA Members, Kingsland 8:00 – 8:45 am Dealing with Communication & Conflict, Emerald Ballroom 1 Wake-up Coffee & Morning Treats, Exhibit Hall

24 2019 Annual NEMA Conference 8:45 – 11:30 am 3:00 – 4:00 pm Off-Site Session Story Telling Sessions, Willsboro Share and Share Alike: Community Exhibit Spaces The Revitalizing Power of Professional Interpretation: Making “Seekers and Scholars” Podcast 8:45 – 10:15 am Concurrent Sessions 4:30 – 5:30 pm All Hands on Deck!, Diamond Ballroom 1 Newcomers Reception, Petit Dejeuner Boundless Museums, Amphitheatre Fundraising for All of Us, Emerald Ballroom 2 5:30 – 8:30 pm Hot Issues and Deep Reflection, Kingsland Evening Events See page 31 for details. Photographing and Digitizing Collections, Shelburne Museums and Climate Change, Emerald Ballroom 1 Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems, Valcour FRIDAY Your Personal Mission, Emerald Ballroom 3 8:00 am – Noon 8:45 – 9:45 am Registration and Bookstore Open Willsboro Story Telling Sessions, 8:00 – 8:45 am A Balancing Act  Tapping into Social-Emotional Learning Wake-up Coffee & Morning Treats, Registration Area 9:45 – 10:15 am 8:45 – 11:00 am Demonstration Station, Exhibit Hall Double Session “Cato & Dolly,” a performance by Plays in Place Donor-Centric Letter Writing Workshop, Valcour

10:15 – 10:45 am 8:45 – 9:45 am Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall Concurrent Sessions 10:15 – 10:45 am Creating Community, Emerald Ballroom 2 Book Signing, Registration Area Exhibition Planning ABCs, Emerald Ballroom 3 Woman’s Suffrage Centennial, Diamond Ballroom 1 10:45 – 11:45 pm Is NEH Funding Right for Me?, Shelburne Concurrent Sessions Telling Other Stories, Diamond Ballroom 2 Are your Artifacts and Documents Protected?, Shelburne Tips for Telling Your Story, Emerald Ballroom 1 Civic Engagement and the Museum, Emerald Ballroom 1 Where Do I Start?, Amphitheatre Deferred Maintenance, Diamond Ballroom 1 Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, Diamond Ballroom 2 9:45 – 10:00 am Join a Cultural Heritage Emergency Network?, Valcour Session Break Pop-Ups vs Permanence, Kingsland 10:00 – 11:00 am Queer Possibility, Amphitheatre Concurrent Sessions So You Want to Be A CEO?, Emerald Ballroom 2 (Re)opening Doors, Emerald Ballroom 1 What’s in It for Museum Staff?, Emerald Ballroom 3 Getting Ready for School, Emerald Ballroom 3 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Intangible Histories, Diamond Ballroom 2 Story Telling Sessions, Willsboro Successful Executive Searches, Emerald Ballroom 2 Hands-On Relevance  The Cafeteria Project Tainted Money, Diamond Ballroom 1 Using Audio to Decolonize Exhibits, Amphitheatre 10:45 – 11:15 am Demonstration Station, Exhibit Hall 11:00 – 11:15 am Designing Data-Based & Member-Friendly Benefits Strategies Session Break

11:30 am – Noon 11:15 am – 12:15 pm Concurrent Sessions Demonstration Station, Exhibit Hall Community-Powered Podcasting, Diamond Ballroom 2 Basics of Moldmaking and Casting Moving from Data Aware to Data Driven, Emerald Ballroom 1 12:15 – 2:15 pm Museum Living Labs, Shelburne PAG Lunches (See page 26-27 for details.) Programming Outside the Museum Box, Emerald Ballroom 2 Recharge and Reimagine: Creativity Break, Amphitheatre 12:45 – 4:00 pm Strategic Planning for IMPs, Diamond Ballroom 1 Off-Site Session College Museums and Collaboration Unraveling the Stories, Kingsland

2:15 – 3:00 pm 11:30 am – 12:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closing Reception & Raffle Drawing Career Conversation with Jane Williamson Valcour 3:00 – 4:00 pm Career Conversation with Marilyn Hoffman 12:15 – 2:00 pm Shelburne Closing Luncheon and Annual Meeting Emerald Ballroom 3 3:00 – 4:30 pm Concurrent Sessions Creative Co-Curation, Diamond Ballroom 1 Don’t Guess, Assess!, Emerald Ballroom 1 Getting Serious about Performance Metrics, Emerald Ballroom 3 Hack Your Hiring, Emerald Ballroom 2 Museum Salaries: Turning Talk into Action, Amphitheatre No Benefits Attached, Diamond Ballroom 2 Taking Your Collections from Obscurity to Accessibility, Valcour

Burlington, Vermont 25 PAG Lunch Sessions (12:15 ‑ 2:15 pm) PAG sessions are open to all, except the Director’s Discussion, limited to museum directors only. If you ordered a box lunch, please collect it from the Exhibit Hall from 12:15-12:45 pm. Sessions begin at 12:45 pm.

Children’s Museums Finding our Niche! Exhibitions PAG Valcour Emerald Ballroom 1 Join us for an informal lunch and opportunity to Join us for a friendly networking and creative roundtable with fellow colleagues from children’s brainstorming, whether exhibits are your life’s work museums and other institutions with an interest in or a fraction of your job! Meet colleagues, discuss serving family audiences. The floor will be open your personal exhibit successes and challenges, to discuss what really matters to those engaging and contribute your ideas to inspire and influence children and family audiences. What are the upcoming 2020 Exhibit PAG activities, including questions and challenges we face? What are the hot future workshops, conference sessions, and behind- trends or current visitor needs that are driving the the-scenes field trips. strategic directions in children’s museums? Whether PAG Co-Chairs: Laurie Pasteryak, Curator of you are from a long-established museum or engaged Exhibitions, Fairfield Museum and History in a newer museum, this is an opportunity to listen Center, CT; Betsy Loring, expLoring and share how our museums are finding our niche exhibits & engagement, LLC, MA amongst the growing field of children’s museums. Hosted by PAG Chair: Beth A. Weller, Director of Operations, The Children’s Museum, CT Historic Sites Open Mic Lunch Amphitheatre College and University Museum PAG Lunch When else do you have a group of beautiful Join us for an off-site session at the Fleming brains to bounce vexing museum questions off of, Museum of Art (ticket required). If you ordered free of charge? Over lunch, we’ll be opening up a box lunch you have time to collect it from the the proverbial mic for participants to share (in 3 Exhibit Hall. minutes or less!) recent successes, roadblocks, or Curators PAG other questions with the group. Real-time feedback Diamond Ballroom 2 guaranteed. Come dish and dine with the most Join us to discuss what we can do for each other. eclectic PAG at the conference. We’ll talk about what curators (and others who PAG Co-Chairs: Kelsey Mullen, Director of Education, sometimes wear the curator hat) need and want Providence Preservation Society, RI; Emma Bray, Executive from interacting with our colleagues in the field, Director, American Independence Museum, NH and what role the Curators PAG can play in that. We’ll also have time for informal networking and Library and Archives PAG conversation. Kingsland Join us for an informal networking lunch. You’ll PAG Co-Chairs: Tiffini Bowers, Exhibitions Curator have the opportunity to meet new colleagues & Smith Magic Collection Curator, John Hay Library, and reconnect with others, share details about Brown University, RI; Tegan Kehoe, Exhibit and current projects, and discuss curatorial questions Education Specialist, Russell Museum of Medical and concerns in a casual, relaxed atmosphere. We History and Innovation at Massachusetts General are actively seeking new PAG Chairs. If you are Hospital, MA interested in serving the PAG this way please join Educators PAG us for lunch. Emerald Ballroom 3 Facilitators: Rebekah Beaulieu, Director, Florence Griswold Join us as we consider the necessity of advocating Museum, CT (NEMA Board); Patrick Ford, Special for our needs as educators. What resources are Collections Librarian, Mystic Seaport Museum, CT required to meet our educational mission and sustain our personal practice? How do we make Membership, Development, PR and our case within our institution that these are Marketing PAG investments worth making? Ask questions, share Petit Dejeuner ideas, offer advice, and connect with a network of Join us for an informal networking lunch. You’ll peers and mentors who can continue to provide have the opportunity to meet new colleagues and inspiration, support, and resources long after we reconnect with others, share details about current leave the conference. projects, and discuss questions and concerns in a casual, relaxed atmosphere. We are actively seeking PAG Co-Chairs: Amanda Goodheart Parks, Director new PAG Chairs for this group. If you are interested of Education, New England Air Museum, CT; Erin in serving the PAG in this way, please let the PAG Wederbrook Yuskaitis, Co-Director of Education, Old Chair know at the lunch. North Church and Historic Site, MA PAG Chair: Heather Rockwood, Development and Marketing Associate, Newport Historical Society, RI

26 2019 Annual NEMA Conference (PAG Lunches Continued) Registrars & Collections Care Specialists (RACCS) The Museum Directors’ Discussion Diamond Ballroom 1 Emerald Ballroom 2 Join us for an update on what we have been up to This is an opportunity for CEO/Directors to discuss as a community, both locally and nationally. This concerns and challenges in an open forum setting. will also be an opportunity to meet and visit with Our facilitator will keep the conversation moving colleagues, ask questions, seek advice, get things off while we share ideas and solutions. Whether your chest, humble brag about what you have been you are a seasoned or a first-time director, this up to, commiserate about the stuff that hasn’t gone discussion will be for CEOs of any size museum. well, and make confessions, should that be needed. Participation is limited to CEO/Directors only. We are seeking additional PAG chairs, so please join Facilitator: Dawn E. Salerno, Executive Director, Rotch- us if you’re interested learning about serving the Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, MA (NEMA PAG in this way. Board) PAG Chair: Daniel Neff, Curator, Fairbanks House, MA Speaker: Meredith Vasta, Collections Steward, Peabody Open Networking Lunch Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard Exhibit Hall University, MA Need some down time? Or just want to break bread with old friends or new ones? Open seating is Hosted by available just for you.

OFF-SITE SESSION CAREER CONVERSATION 12:45 – 4:00 pm WITH MARILYN College Museums and Collaboration: An HOFFMAN Afternoon at UVM’s Fleming Museum of Art 3:00 – 4:00 pm Ticket holders meet at the conference center lobby at Shelburne 12:45 pm. Bus will leave at 12:50 pm. If you ordered a Join Marilyn Hoffman of box lunch you will have time to collect it from the Exhibit Museum Search and Reference Hall. for a look at her career and Organized by the College and University Museum PAG. a discussion of working in the museum field. Marilyn’s museum experience includes the Facilitators: Deborah Disston, Director, McIninch Art Metropolitan Museum in New York, Museum of Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, College Fine Arts, Boston, RISD Museum, and executive and University Museum PAG chair; Andrea Rosen, director positions at the Fuller Museum and Currier Curator, Fleming Museum of Art, VT Museum of Art. Since 2004, she has been principal Speakers: Dr. Sean Burrus, Andrew W. Mellon of Museum Search and Reference, an executive Curatorial Fellow, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, search firm that manages transitions in museums ME; Dr. Sarah Laursen, Curator of Asian Art and nationwide. She is also the 2019 NEMA Lifetime Douglas Perkins, Associate Director, Operations and Achievement Award honoree. Finance, Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT (NEMA Board) CONCURRENT SESSIONS Hosted by 3:00 – 4:30 pm Association of Academic Museums & Galleries Creative Co-Curation Across Small

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28 2019 Annual NEMA Conference Getting Serious about Performance Metrics unrestricted revenue from major donors? Join the Emerald Ballroom 3 discussion to share creative ideas and strategies for Metrics! Impact! Accountability! We all want our growing your annual fund. organizations to be able to demonstrate that we Facilitator: Tori Hart, Development Manager, Vermont make a difference in our communities and with Historical Society our audiences. But what can we point to beyond Speakers: Stephanie Glock, Business Manager, Fleming attendance and financial reports to make our case? Museum of Art, University of Vermont; Kate Olney, Come with one goal from your museum’s plan that Director of Development & Community Relations, eludes your search for metrics and together we will Vermont Historical Society workshop some feasible and effective approaches, drawing on the lessons from NEMA’s Assessing Museum Impact project. You Can Do It Too! Taking Your Collections from Obscurity to Accessibility Facilitator: Laura B. Roberts, Principal, Roberts Valcour Consulting, MA Get insight and inspiration to tackle your own Speakers: Lynn Baum, Principal, Turtle Peak collections challenges head-on by joining Fort Consulting, MA; David Ellis, President Emeritus, Ticonderoga in a discussion about how we Museum of Science, Boston, MA; George Hein, Professor documented, cataloged, and re-housed nearly Emeritus, Lesley University, MA; John Jacobsen, 40,000 objects over the last three years. Topics President, White Oak Associates, MA will include working in compromised storage environments, reconciling objects with legacy Hack your Hiring institutional records, and creating pathways to Emerald Ballroom 2 accessibility for previously “hidden” collections. Whether you’re the director of a small museum, a We will share our strategies for success so that department head bringing on seasonal staff, or a others can feel empowered to tackle their own veteran HR professional, hiring is one of the most collections challenges! important, and oftentimes most daunting, areas of Facilitator: Miranda Peters, Director of Collections, Fort museum administration. Join us for an interactive Ticonderoga, NY discussion of the best practices, resources, and Speakers: Tabitha Hubbard, Assistant Registrar, Tyler strategies you need to make your next hire. Ostrander, Cataloger, and Margaret Staudter, Registrar Facilitator: Amanda Goodheart Parks, Director of & Site Archaeologist, Fort Ticonderoga; NY Education, New England Air Museum, CT Speakers: Purvi Patwari, Principal, Segovia HR Solutions, MA; Dawn E. Salerno, Executive Director, Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, MA (NEMA Board)

Museum Salaries: Turning Talk into Action Amphitheatre The museum profession suffers from systemic under-compensation and pay inequality. The session will identify multiple strategies to effect change and focus on institutional policy, priorities and practices; the role of professional associations as resources and advocates; and unionization. Ample time will be available for audience discussion and brainstorming. Facilitator: Lawrence Yerdon, President & CEO, Strawbery Banke Museum, NH Speakers: Michelle Epps, President, National Emerging Museum Professionals Network, IL; Mark Gold, Partner, Smith Green & Gold, LLP, MA; Alicia Graziano, Organizer, United Auto Workers Local 2110, NY

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How Will Your Museum Commemorate the DOUBLE SESSION Woman’s Suffrage Centennial? 8:45 – 11:00 am Diamond Ballroom 1 2020 is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. In this information-sharing Donor-Centric Letter Writing Workshop Valcour session you will hear different approaches that For whom do you write your annual appeal letters? institutions are taking to commemorate this event In what formats does your institution send out and learn about resources that you can use to plan appeals? If you don’t know what donor-centric your own programming. Whether you have your letter writing is, or why your institution should Centennial plans all laid out or just starting to think change their successful styles, come learn, and about it, all are welcome. There will be time for write, your own donor-centric letter in this hands- networking and sharing and brainstorming ideas. on workshop. Facilitator: Cathy Saunders, Lighting the Way Project Speakers: Alicia Cipriano, Development Coordinator, Coordinator, New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA Newport Restoration Foundation, RI; Heather (NEMA Board) Rockwood, Development and Marketing Associate, Speakers: Rachel Onuf, Vermont Historical Records Newport Historical Society, RI Program Coordinator, Vermont Historical Records Program; Cassandra Peltier, Executive Director, Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, MA CONCURRENT SESSIONS 8:45 – 9:45 am Is NEH Funding Right for Me? Shelburne Creating Community Through Summer In this session, learn about grant opportunities from Camps the National Endowment for the Humanities that Emerald Ballroom 2 support exhibition, preservation, interpretation, For museums, creating summer camp programs and capacity building projects that foster deeper that provide a fun, interactive, and educational understandings of cultures, history, and multiple experience for children has its own logistical perspectives. Learn critical tips for a more and educational concerns beyond those already competitive, and smooth, application, a process existing for the institution. This session will be which can also serve to strengthen your project in a round table for camp staff to bring up their itself. Because NEH guidelines can change with each concerns, find creative solutions with the help of deadline, this session is an opportunity to receive the other museum camp staff, and brainstorm what latest updates for late 2019 and 2020 offerings. has worked well in our respective institutions so Speaker: Jill Austin, Senior Program Officer, National that we can share those positive experiences. Endowment for the Humanities, DC (continued on page 34)

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Telling Other Stories: Adding More Voices to History Museums and Historic Sites Diamond Ballroom 2 How can museums and historic sites expand their stories to include a wider audience? Presenters share examples of changes that helped engage communities and visitors in new ways. Hear how John Jay Homestead used community voices in an exhibit, how the Vermont History Museum added a photo booth to expand interpretation of a mid- century mural, and how Fort Ticonderoga included diverse stories in teacher workshops, all to reach beyond the traditional stories and engage today’s audience. Study Public History at Facilitator: Victoria Hughes, Museum & Education Boston’s Public University Manager, Vermont Historical Society, VT Speakers: Richard Strum, Director of Academic Graduate Studies in History at Programs, Fort Ticonderoga, NY; Bethany White, University of Massachusetts Boston Interpretive Programs Director, John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, NY MA in History, Public History Track MA in History, Archives Track Tips for Telling Your Story and Working with the Media Emerald Ballroom 1 See the History Department website: Museums have invested in their own media to www.umb.edu/history/grad market themselves. Additionally, earning attention or contact the department at from other media remains an important part of 617.287.6860 the marketing mix. Learn from Mel Allen, the editor of Yankee, how to maximize the impact of communications you control and how to interest 15.261asw other media in featuring your museum. Mel and a travel writer will provide tips and advice what makes a story engaging to your audience and to other media. DORFMAN Speaker: Mel Allen, Editor, Yankee Magazine, NH MUSEUM FIGURES, INC. Where Do I Start? An Introduction to Realistic Figures Assessment Programs for Museums & Amphitheatre Conservation Forms From AASLH StEPS to AAM MAP and Accreditation programs, there exist a variety of assessment opportunities for museums. But which one is right for you? This session is intended to introduce, clarify, and spark interest in museum assessment programs. This session will help you comprehend the process and benefits of different

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34 2019 Annual NEMA Conference CONCURRENT SESSIONS Successful Executive Searches: Innovative Strategies & Satisfied Stakeholders 10:00 – 11:00 am Emerald Ballroom 2 Your museum’s executive director just announced (Re)opening Doors: How One Museum is that they are leaving, but there is no money in Experimenting with Audience Engagement the budget to hire a search firm and all of your After a Major Expansion stakeholders have strong opinions. No need to Emerald Ballroom 1 panic! This panel will reveal the strategies deployed During a three-year renovation and expansion, by search professionals so that you can ensure a the staff at the Hood Museum of Art reflected on successful transition for your museum and satisfy how the museum’s programs further its mission. your community. As an academic and regional museum, the Hood is committed to serving the needs of different Speakers: Marilyn Hoffman, Principal, Museum Search audiences. Three Hood staff members will discuss & Reference, NH; Anne M. Lampe, CEO, and Gina new programs that engage targeted audiences in Russo, Search Committee Chair, Museum Trustee exciting ways. They will also discuss the role of Association, MD collaboration and failure in their process. Tainted Money Speakers: Isadora Italia, Campus Engagement Diamond Ballroom 1 Coordinator, Sharon Reed, Programs and Events William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, is Coordinator, and Jamie Rosenfeld, Museum Educator, alleged to have said, “the problem with tainted money Hood Museum of Art, NH is there t’aint enough of it,” expressing the idea that it doesn’t matter where the money comes from as long Getting Ready for School with Degas and the Dinosaurs as it goes to a good cause. But that philosophy today Emerald Ballroom 3 is being put to the test. Activists, artists, and museum Does your museum help prepare children to workers are pushing back, calling out museum donors thrive and be a part of their schools, communities, who have made their money from weapons, drugs, and the world around them? School readiness fossil fuels, or activities that conflict with the mission. activities come in all shapes and sizes, and The moment raises important questions. Is all money museums can be unique venues for offering really good money? How do we define “tainted this type of programming. Join art and science money” and adhere to our principles? Are we setting museum educators as we explore a variety of (continued on page 36) thematic materials, try out hands-on activities, and participate in facilitated discussions all about early learner skill building and school readiness. Facilitator: Cory Kelly, Early Childhood Programs Coordinator, Museum of Science, Boston, MA Speaker: Abby McBride, Manager of Family Programs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Trudi Plummer, Director of Education, Maine Discovery Museum

Intangible Histories – Making Meaning from Memory Diamond Ballroom 2 Moving towards inclusive museums means sharing a broader range of stories, even those that are not well documented or marked by objects. We can share these stories, through oral history, personal artifacts, conservation of traditional practices, and sharing through experience. This panel invites professionals from the Rokeby Museum, the Florence Griswold Museum, and GSM Project to share the techniques they use to show these intangible histories and create meaning out of the memories and stories of individuals. Facilitator: Erika Kiessner, Creative Director, GSM Project, QC Speakers: Marie-Claude Baillargeon, Designer, GSM Project, QC; David Rau, Director of Education and Outreach, Florence Griswold Museum, CT; Jane Williamson, Director Emerita, Rokeby Museum, VT

Burlington, Vermont 35 (continued from page 35) ourselves up for a slippery slope when we judge the origins of someone’s gift? Join us for a discussion of a nationwide survey and how museums – including yours – are dealing with this new reality. Facilitator: Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New England Museum Association, MA

Using Audio to Decolonize Permanent Exhibits Amphitheatre Peabody Museum exhibits are co-curated with Indigenous experts, but the community has few opportunities to contribute to interpretation of exhibits over time. The Native American Poets Playlist is a community-curated project We plan museums. that refreshed permanent displays. Wandering freely through the galleries, visitors listened to Interpretive Planning contemporary poems that reflect the realities, concerns, and thinking of Native American Exhibit Development individuals from diverse tribal backgrounds. Learn about the benefits of the project and how to Visitor Engagement implement, support and evaluate your own. Facilitator: Polly Hubbard, Peabody Museum Education www.objectidea.com Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, MA Speakers: Shelly Lowe (Navajo), Executive Director, Harvard University Native American Program, Harvard University, MA; Larry Spotted Crow Mann (Nipmuc), Object IDEA Community Reviewer, MA SESSION BREAK 11:00 – 11:15 am

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Community-Powered Podcasting Diamond Ballroom 2 Have you thought about creating a podcast, but aren’t sure you can do it yourself? Partnering with other organizations in your community can share the work and the rewards of podcasting. Reaching The one-stop printing out to experts beyond your walls can also build & publishing solution for and grow meaningful relationships and help you to reach new audiences. Facilitator: Amanda Gustin, Public Program Manager, Artists Vermont Historical Society Speakers: Ryan Newswanger, Director of Galleries Communications, Vermont Humanities Council; Mary Wesley, Discovering Community Program Co- Museums Coordinator & Media Producer, Vermont Folklife Center Historical Societies Moving from Data Aware to Data Driven Nonprofit Organizations Emerald Ballroom 1 This session looks across museum data sources to propose seamless ways to leverage technologies to further engage visitors and donors, and increase their satisfaction with the museum and 207-594-0090 its programming. Legacy systems and emerging CustomMuseumPublishing.com technologies will be considered. Facilitator: Katherine Jones, Program Director, Museum Studies, Harvard University Extension School, MA

36 2019 Annual NEMA Conference Museum Living Labs: When Museums Become Hubs for Technological Innovation Shelburne Do Your Job Better With During this session, three museum professionals These NEMA Services will share their personal experiences in developing and coordinating living labs, which are user- centered, open innovation ecosystems. You will leave the session with a better understanding of Navigate your urgent issues with the benefits provided by living labs to museums NEMA 911 and their communities. You’ll also acquire tools to NEMA 911 is a rapid‐response resource that foster and accompany interdisciplinary teamwork. connects museum leaders with helpful colleagues Overall, the session aims to spark questions, to untangle problems, get words of wisdom, and discussions and reflections about the challenges and suggest pathways toward solutions. It’s a free, opportunities offered by living labs. confidential service for NEMA members. To get Facilitator: Charlene Belanger, Educational Programs started, go to nemanet.org/nema‐911. Manager – Digital Engagement, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, QC Speakers: Brigitte Belleville, Director of Digital Engagement, Quebec Museum of Civilization; Claudine NEMA Salary, Benefits & Workforce Drolet, Project Manager - Museology and Digital Survey Coming in Early 2020! Heritage, DigiHub Shawinigan, QC; Valerie Therrien, Director, Musée POP, QC Make sure your institution is counted! Participate in the 2020 New England Museum Salary, Benefits & Programming Outside the Museum Box Workforce Survey and get a FREE copy of the final Emerald Ballroom 2 report (a $100 value). Deadline is November 22: Traditionally, public programs in museums have nemanet.org/salary‐survey. relied on current book publications or partnering with like organizations within the cultural realm. But to engage more deeply with their communities, today’s museums are looking to work with non- traditional entities to educate and reach a new audience. Local businesses, other non-profits, or advocacy organizations can all make great partners to offer dynamic programming. This session will explore the benefits and pitfalls of these new relationships. Facilitator: Kate McBrien, Principal, McBrien Museum Consulting, ME (NEMA Board) Speakers: Scott Davison, Education Director, American Precision Museum, VT; Robert Worstell, Linde Family Head of Community and Studio Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Recharge and Reimagine: Creativity Break NEW! Amphitheatre Many of us came to work at museums because we find them inspiring. But in the day- to-day operation of a museum, not to mention the pressures of outside factors and current events, it’s all too easy to fall into patterns, to stop seeing what makes our places special, and to stop feeding that inspirational, creative element of our museum practice. Ekphrasis, or the creation of one kind of art inspired by another kind of art, is a natural fit for museums and museum professionals. Discover different methods of creating an ekphrastic piece, how it might translate to your job, and how to encourage similar experiences for your colleagues and your visitors. Or simply use the time to reflect creatively on your conference experiences! Speaker: Meg Winikates, poet and Director of Engagement, New England Museum Association, MA (continued on page 38)

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38 2019 Annual NEMA Conference CLOSING LUNCHEON AND Metropolitan Museum in New York, and held educator positions at the Boston Museum of ANNUAL MEETING Congrats! Fine Arts and RISD Museum in Providence. She 12:15 – 2:00 pm holds a B.A. and M.A. in Art History from Brown Emerald Ballroom 3 University. Close out your 2019 conference by celebrating the winners of the 2019 NEMA Since 2004, Marilyn has been principal of Museum Excellence Awards and commemorate the career Search and Reference, an executive search firm that of Marilyn Hoffman, NEMA’s 2019 Lifetime manages transitions in museums nationwide. Her Achievement Awardee. Hear about NEMA’s latest dedication to NEMA has been profound, serving on initiatives, then help elect the next NEMA board the board, as an officer, as a frequent presenter, and and officers during a brief annual meeting before as a sponsor. NEMA is grateful for her commitment heading home from a great conference. to the field, her mentorship of museum leaders, and her service to our organization. We are proud to honor Marilyn Hoffman with the 2019 NEMA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Lifetime Achievement Award. Marilyn Hoffman has enjoyed a meaningful and multifaceted museum career that has made an impact on the field in many ways. At age 27, she became Director of the Fuller Museum in Brockton, MA, and then took the helm of one of the top 100 art museums in North America, the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. She previously held two curator posts and early in her career did a graduate internship at the

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