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baton rouge, la PIERRE le moyne d’iberville Y with several business incubators and the Louisiana MA OR Technology Park. We are home to two universities, GRAM E ’S Louisiana State University and Southern University, O A Special Thanks to Our Host Institutions FIRST CLASS FIRST and we are proud to have the fastest growing R The following local museums have graciously agreed H community college in the nation. Our city has some CLASS FIRST P to allow free admission to SEMC 2010 Annual Meeting T of the finest restaurants that are guaranteed to satisfy participants during their regular operating hours. To SEMC any liking. At night, you can put on your dancing shoes gain free admission, please show your SEMC Annual and head Downtown to enjoy the nightlife along the SEMC Meeting Badge at the museum entrance. Detailed Mississippi River from which you are sure to bring contact information can be found on the back cover of 2010 home everlasting memories. 2010 the program. On behalf of all the wonderful citizens who live E and work in this city, I wish you a successful and S Louisiana’s Old State Capitol W M memorable stay. C T LSU Museum of Art E L C O O N Louisiana Art and Science Museum Sincerely, N T E Louisiana State Museum–Baton Rouge Magnolia Mound Melvin L. “Kip” Holden LSU Rural Life Museum & Windrush Gardens Office of the Mayor-President Mayor-President Odell S. Williams Now & Then Museum City of Baton Rouge Meeting Spaces 4 of African American History Parish of East Baton Rouge Schedule-at-a-Glance 5 Old Arsenal Museum 222 St. Louis Street Conference Information 8 Old Governor’s Mansion PO Box 1471 Resource Expo & Silent Auction Schedule 10 USS Kidd & Nautical Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821 Resource Expo Layout and Booths 10 West Baton Rouge Museum Session Sponsorships, Tracks & Topics 12 October 12, 2010 Sponsors, Committees, Council & Staff 14 October 12, Tuesday 16 October 13, Wednesday 21 Dear Friends: October 14, Thursday 27 Welcome to Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s Capital Exhibitor Information 33 City! It gives me great pleasure to extend a warm www.SEMCdirect.net welcome to all the participants in the Southeastern Museums Conference. The work that you do sustains and preserves our history and culture for all of our citizens and future generations. We are 12-14, 2010 honored to celebrate this event with you, here in october our city. While you are here, I hope you take advantage of our outstanding local cultural attractions, some of which I know you are well acquainted with, such as the Old State Capitol, the Rural Life Museum, the Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, the Southern University Museum of Art and the Louisiana State Museum, a museum showcasing the history of Louisiana with multimedia presentations. Baton Rouge is also home to the Shaw Center for the Arts where you can view prestigious art exhibits in the LSU Museum of Art and sample an exciting schedule of cultural events and live performances showcased baton rouge, la in its Manship Theatre for the Performing Arts. Additionally, Baton Rouge is a center for commerce Annual Meeting 2010 logo (above) and invitation (opposite page) by Nicole Duet Latiolais, Solo Designs, Baton Rouge, LA, [email protected], www.solodesigns.com. 2 Mayor’s Welcome Contents 3 TING EDUL 1:00 p m – 2:30 p m EE H E CONCURRENT sessions C career Center Workshop: Public Speaking FIRST CLASS FIRST M CLASS FIRST S Paramount Room exhibition Catalogues – From Drafting Table to Digital Age SEMC SEMC Louisiana Room extreme Makeover – Museum Goes Green Governor Room (Sponsor: AAMG, NAME, SETEG) E 2010 A 2010 collection Plans – How To! T C Capitol Room (Sponsors: AAMG, SEMC CURCOM, S N HHMAG, SERA) S E - A A cheap But Good: Museum Education Programs P A C - G L King Room (Sponsor: EdCom) 2:30 p m – 6:00 p m resource expo open 2:30 p m – 3:00 p m resource expo iced tea & cookie break TUESDAY 3:00 p m – 4:30 p m OCTOBER 12 CONCURRENT sessions catastrophe Risk Management: Disaster 7:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n preparation and Recovery hhMAG Hands-on help Paramount Room Meet in Hilton lobby (Pre-reg. required) art Concept + Design Team = Interactive Gallery 8:00 a m – 6:00 p m Louisiana Room (Sponsors: EdCom, NAME) registration curatorial Research Paper Presentations First floor hallway Governor Room (Sponsor: SEMC CURCOM) 8:00 a m – 11:30 a m reinforce Your New Career With Networking semc council meeting Capitol Room (Sponsor: SETEG) Victory Room, Mezzanine Floor Reinventing the Wheel: Lessons Learned 8:00 a m – 1:00 p m on Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail resource EXPO SETUP King Room Riverview Ballroom 4:30 p m – 5:00 p m 11:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n NEW MEMBERS/FIRST TIME MEETING proGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING aTTENDEES ORIENTATION Victory Room, Mezzanine Floor University Room 11:30 a m – 1:00 p m 4:30 p m – 6:00 p m JIMI LUNCHEON RESOURCE EXPO/SILENT AUCTION University Room (Pre-reg. required) GRAND OPENING RECEPTION Conference Hotel SEMC Resource Expo 11:30 a m – 1:00 p m Riverside Ballroom (Bourbon tasting sponsors: Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center Riverview Ballroom, 1st floor state museum association LUNCHEON Solid Light, Inc., and Heaven Hill Distilleries) 201 Lafayette Street SEMC Program Sessions Hunt Room, Mezzanine Floor (Pre-reg. required) 6:30 p m – 10:00 p m Baton Rouge LA 70801 Paramount, Louisiana, Governor, 12:45 p m – 5:00 p m evening event Phone: 225-344-5866 Capitol and King rooms, 1st floor sugar country tour louisiana Art & Science Museum Fax: 225-906-0595 SEMC Plenary Session and Annual Awards Luncheon Meet in Hilton Lobby to board buses and LSU Museum of Art Heidelberg Ballroom, 10th floor (Pre-reg. required) Meet in Hilton lobby at 6:30 pm for SEMC Registration SEMC Meetings & Meal Functions 2nd line parade (Pre-reg. required) First floor hallway (near the Business Center) University and Board rooms, 1st floor Victory and Hunt rooms, Mezzanine 4 Meeting Spaces Schedule At-A-Glance 5 2:00 p m – 5:30 p m 8:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n (Pre-reg. required) WEDNESDAY double session double session exhibitors Luncheon OCTOBER 13 The Half-Day MBA: Visionary Leadership Museum Inclusion: Dollars and Sense Heidelberg Ballroom, Tenth Floor Capitol Room Capitol Room (Sponsor: NAME) (Invitation only) 7:30 a m – 8:45 a m 2:00 p m – 3:30 p m 8:30 a m – 10:00 a m 1:30 p m – 3:00 p m downtown baton rouge walking tour concurrent Sessions concurrent sessions off-site session Meet in Hilton Lobby (Pre-reg. required) collecting Ethics in the Real World a Student’s-Eye View sera Behind-the-Scenes Tour 7:30 a m – 8:45 a m Paramount Room (Sponsors: SEMC CURCOM, SERA) of Museum Internships of LSU Museum of Art HHMAG breakfast reinvent Your Work Style Paramount Room (Sponsor: COMPT) LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts University Room (Pre-reg. required) Louisiana Room (Sponsor: AAMG) a Re-Invigorating View of the AAM (SERA members only) (Pre-reg. required) 8:00 a m – 5:00 p m The Power of Email Marketing peer Review Program 1:30 p m – 3:00 p m Registration Governor Room Louisiana Room (Sponsor: SEMC CURCOM) concurrent sessions First Floor hallway neh Opportunities for Your Museum Will Your Museum Be Open in 2020? directors Panel Discussion 9:00 a m – 10:00 a m King Room Governor Room Governor Room general Session: 3:30 p m – 4:00 p m Beyond Field Trips: Reinventing Museums and Social Media SEMC Annual Business Meeting resource expo ice cream break Museum Education Programs Capitol Room (Sponsor: HHMAG) and Keynote Speech 4:00 p m – 5:30 p m King Room (Sponsor: EdCom) volunteers: Maximizing Your Heidelberg Ballroom, Tenth Floor concurrent Sessions 10:00 a m – 10:30 a m Greatest Resource 10:00 a m – 12:00 n o o n I Just Need Some Pretty Pictures resource expo coffee break King Room (Sponsors: EdCom, HHMAG) resource expo OPEN Paramount Room 10:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n 3:00 p m – 4:00 p m 10:00 a m – 10:30 a m What is JIMI and What Can It Do For You? off-site session semc council meeting resource expo coffee break Louisiana Room exhibit Walk & Talk: Victory Room, Mezzanine Floor 10:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n SEMC Stitch ‘n’ Chat naME Networking Session off-site Session Governor Room Meet in Hilton Lobby (Sponsor: NAME) The Shaw Center for the Arts: 5:00 p m – 6:30 p m (Pre-reg. required) Where Art Meets Community RESOURCE EXPO/SILENT 10:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n Turner Gallery, Third Floor, Shaw Center for the Arts aucTION CLOSING PARTY concurrent sessions 10:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n (Contributing Sponsor: Travelers Insurance) re-Invigorating Your Core Audience concurrent Sessions 6:30 p m – 10:00 p m through Adult Education Heritage Areas: Advancing Through Partnerships evening event Paramount Room (Sponsor: EdCom) Paramount Room a Taste of Louisiana History We Just Don’t Have the Money! revitalizing with IMLS: Meet in the Hilton lobby to board shuttle buses or Best Practices for Improving Security opportunities and Resources walk one block to the Old State Capitol despite Reduced Staff & Budgets Louisiana Room (Sponsor: SEMC CURCOM) (Pre-reg. required) Louisiana Room (Sponsor: SEMC CURCOM) private Collections/Public Museums 10:00 p m – 11:00 p m no Dirty Laundry Here! Governor Room (Sponsors: SEMC CURCOM, registrars respite King Room (Pre-reg. required) SERA, SETEG) Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant, 151 Third St. 12:00 n o o n – 1:30 p m emergency Toolkit for Unintended (Contributing Sponsors: Transport Consultants Affinity luncheons career Transitions International & Willis Fine Art, Jewelry & Specie) directors Luncheon Capitol Room (SERA Members only) (Pre-reg. required) Governor Room (Pre-reg. required) aaM Listening Session Southeastern Registrars King Room association (SERA) 12:15 p m – 1:45 p m THURSDAY University Room (SERA members only) ANNUAL AWARDS LUNCHEON OCTOBER 14 (Pre-reg. required) Heidelberg Ballroom, Tenth Floor (Pre-reg. required) Museum Educators Committee (EdCom) 1:45 p m – 5:00 p m 8:00 a m – 12:00 n o o n Board Room (Pre-reg. required) swamp stomp tour registration committee On Museum Meet in Hilton Lobby (Pre-reg. required) 9:00 a m – 12:00 n o o n profesional Training (COMPT) resource expo open Hunt Room, Mezzanine Floor

6 Schedule At-A-Glance Schedule At-A-Glance 7 RE Name Badges by Transport Consultants International. Funds for SEMC 2010 Silent Auction FE NC Name badges must be worn at all times. Name badges the LaPaglia Historic House Museum Professional Please bid on the silent auction items in the Resource N E will be required for admission to all SEMC annual meeting Scholarship are donated by LaPaglia & Associates, and Expo. As always, the funds raised by the silent auction will FIRST CLASS FIRST O program sessions and workshops. Badges and tickets will SERA Scholarships are sponsored by SERA and Aon/ go to the scholarship program for 2011. Our Silent Auction C be required for all meal functions and evening events. Huntington T. Block Insurance. Please take time to thank Coordinator is Jenny Lamb, Director of Interpretation & All host institutions will grant free admission to SEMC our sponsors for their generous support. Education, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, TN. She is SEMC participants with badges during their regular operating SEMC’s Scholarship Coordinator is Karen Utz, Curator, ably assisted by Local Arrangements Committee member hours through Sunday, October 17. Please call or check Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, Ashley Pierce, Events & Public Information Coordinator, their websites for operating hours. AL. The LaPaglia Historic House Museum Scholarship Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, LA. Please thank N I 2010 Coordinator is Leslie Keller, Curator, Hickory Landmarks Jenny and Ashley for all their hard work! N O Society, Hickory, NC. SERA Scholarship Coordinator is I Tickets F T Tickets for all evening events, receptions, tours or meal Martha Tonissen Mayberry, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, Bus Schedule O R A functions for which you have registered will be provided NC. Please thank the coordinators for their hard work All group transportation will depart and return outside the M in your packet. We will also provide two complimentary – there were nearly 50 applicants for 10 scholarships, lobby area of the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. beverage tickets for each of the Tuesday and Wednesday making the process highly competitive. afternoon Resource Expo receptions. Tickets to the Tuesday, October 12 Conference Theme Annual Awards luncheon and affinity breakfasts/ SEMC 2010 Annual Meeting The bus for the “Sugar Country Tour” will depart at 12:45 “Re-Invent, Re-Invigorate, Re-Vitalize: Creating Success luncheons will not be available at the Annual Meeting. Scholarship Recipients pm and return at 5:00 pm. in the New Economic Landscape” In today’s environment, However, if the SEMC office has cancellations of ticketed we are all struggling with a challenging economic climate events, those tickets will be available at registration. SEMC Traveling Scholarship Winners Evening Event as well as the need to define and communicate our Student: Jessica VanNoy, West Virginia University, Elkin, WV The Louisiana Art & Science Museum (LASM) and the institution’s mission, vision, and value to our audiences SEMC Message Board and Resource Tables Diversity Professional: Anita Ponder, Director of Education, LSU Museum of Art (LSU-MOA) are within easy walking and communities. Responding to this situation, the The message board will be located in the first floor Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA distance of the Hilton. A traditional “second-line” band 2010 SEMC Annual Meeting program sessions offer new hallway near registration; resource tables will be located Emerging Museum Professional: Caroline Vereen, will lead participants to the first stop at 6:30 pm, so wear ideas and examples of innovative programs to help your near the Resource Expo. Please be prepared to take Special Collections and Archives, Furman University, comfortable shoes and be prepared to “strut your stuff!” institution and your career not just to survive but to thrive brochures home at the end of the annual meeting Greenville, SC Continuous shuttle service between the Hilton, LASM in “the new normal” in which we now function. sessions after 3:00 pm on Thursday, October 14. Small Museum Professional: Heather Hanley, and LSU-MOA will be available between 6:30 – 8:30 pm. . Project Coordinator and Development Director, Shuttle provided by the Baton Rouge Area Convention General Information SEMC 2010 Publication Design Competition Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, Buckhead, GA & Visitors Bureau. The SEMC 2010 Annual Meeting and Resource Expo is The SEMC Publication Design Competition was begun headquartered at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. in 1988 to recognize and reward excellence in the SEMC President’s Scholarship Winner Wednesday, October 13 All activities take place at the hotel except for specially graphic design of Southeastern museums’ publications. Christine Morgan, Louisiana State University, The bus for the “Swamp Stomp Tour” will depart at noted program sessions, tours, and evening events. The competition encourages communication, effective Baton Rouge, LA 1:45 pm and return at 5:00 pm. Locations are subject to change. All changes will be design, creativity, pride of work, and recognition of posted in the registration area at the Hilton. institutional image and identity. Come see the winning LaPaglia Historic House Museum Professional Winner Evening Event entries displayed in the Resource Expo. The winners will Carolyn Morris, Executive Director, Deerfield Beach Shuttle service to depart the Hilton Hotel from Attendee List be featured at the Annual Awards Luncheon and in the Historical Society, Deerfield Beach, FL 6:30 to 6:45 for the Old State Capitol. A list of all annual meeting attendees is in your tote Winter 2011 issue of SEMC’s quarterly newsletter, Inside Shuttle service to depart the Old State Capitol from bag. This list includes all attendees registered by Friday, SEMC. SERA Scholarship Winners 7:30 to 7:45 for the Old Governors’ Mansion. October 1. It will be updated after the meeting to include Deborah Rose Van Horn, Assistant Registrar, Shuttle service to depart the Old Governors’ Mansion from those attendees who registered after October 1 and will SEMC 2010 Annual Meeting Scholarship Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY 8:30 to 8:45 pm for the Louisiana State Museum. be emailed to all Resource Expo exhibitors. The updated Sponsors & Coordinators Tyler Nowell, Collections Manager, Continuous shuttle between the Louisiana State Museum list is available to all Annual Meeting attendees by request Congratulations to all our 2010 scholarship winners! Manship House Museum, Pearl, MS and the Hilton from 9:15 to 10:15 pm. to the SEMC Central Office by November 30, 2010. Scholarship recipients will be recognized at the Annual Melinda Gales, Registrar, Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, October 13. Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA Shuttle provided by the Attendee Registration The four SEMC Traveling Scholarships are supported Baton Rouge Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center, first floor hallway by the SEMC Alderson Endowment and proceeds from Day Pass Scholarship Tuesday, Oct 12: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm SEMC’s 2009 Silent Auction. The SEMC President’s Lauren Miller, Curator of Exhibits and Collections, Wednesday, Oct 13: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Scholarship is sponsored by SEMC President Kristen Old Capitol Museum, Jackson, MS Thursday, Oct 14: 8:00 am – noon Miller Zohn, and a Day Pass Scholarship is sponsored 8 Conference Information Conference Information 9 E EX CE E RC PO R XP U U O O 34. Mid-America Arts Alliance/ FIRST CLASS FIRST O & CLASS FIRST S S Exhibits USA/NEH on the Road E E 35. National Endowment for the

R R Humanities (NEH) E 36. SEMC Publication Design Competition L S S SEMC SEMC 37. SEMC Publication Design Competition I U L H L D 38. The Creative Company E A T 39. Riggs Ward N 2010 E Y 2010 T H O 40. ExPlus, Inc. C O 41. The Design Minds, Inc. A U S U O CTIO N T & B 42. Capitol Exhibit Services, Inc.

Tuesday, October 12 1. MBA Design & Display Products Corporation 2:30 – 6:00 p m 2. The Donning Company Publishers Resource Expo Open 3. Tour-Mate Systems 2:30 – 3:00 p m 4. Studio Displays, Inc. Resource Expo Iced Tea Break 5. HealyKohler Designs 4:30 – 6:00 p m 6. Smith Kramer Fine Art Services Resource Expo/Silent Auction 7. Quatrefoil Associates Opening Reception 8. Institute of Museum and Library Services 9. Solid Light, Inc. 10. Museum Works Wednesday, October 13 11. Goosepen Studio & Press 10:00 a m – n o o n 12. HogEye, Inc. Resource Expo/Silent Auction Open 13. Shore Design 10:00 – 10:30 a m 14. The Nassal Company Resource Expo Coffee Break 15. JGL Food Services No o n – 1:30 p m 16. Malone Design/Fabrication Resource Expo Closed 17. Blackbaud 1:30 – 6:30 p m 18. FireSign Dynamic Digital Signage Resource Expo Open 19. 1220 Exhibits 3:30 – 4:00 p m 20. Manask & Associates Resource Expo Ice Cream Break 21. Greenville SC Convention & Visitors Bureau 5:00 – 6:30 p m 22. SEMC Silent Auction Resource Expo/Silent Auction 23. SEMC Silent Auction Closing Reception 24. SEMC Silent Action 6:00 p m 25. Louisiana Association of Museum Silent Auction bidding closes 26. American Association of Museums 27. SEMC Career Center 28. Gaylord Brothers Thursday, October 14 29. Charlotte Van & Storage 9:00 a m – n o o n 30. Arcadia Publishing Resource Expo Open 31. Clark Patterson Lee 10:00 – 10:30 a m 32. Inergi Exhibit Design Resource Expo Coffee Break 33. Cinebar Productions 10 Resource Expo and Silent Auction Schedule Resource Expo Layout and Booths 11 PONSOR PROGRAM SESSIONS ACCORDING Beyond Field Trips: S SH TO AREAS OF INTEREST Reinventing Museum Education Programs N I Reinvigorating Your Core Audience FIRST CLASS FIRST O P I S Administration through Adult Education S , S Extreme Makeover - Museum Goes Green Volunteers: Maximizing Your Greatest Resource E Catastrophe Risk Management – S SEMC S Disaster Preparation and Recovery Emerging Museum Professionals T C I Heritage Areas: Advancing through Partnerships Career Center Public Speaking Workshop R 2010 P Revitalizing with IMLS Reinforce Your New Career With Networking A O C K T The Half-Day MBA: Visionary Leadership Reinvent Your Work Style S, A N D I Just Need Some Pretty Pictures What is JIMI and What Can It Do For You? Will Your Museum Be Open in 2020? A Student’s-Eye View of Museum Internships Reinvent Your Work Style Museums and Social Media We Just Don’t Have the Money: Best Practices for AFFINITY GROUPS & STANDING Improving Security Despite Reduced Staff & Budgets Exhibits PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES No Dirty Laundry Here! Extreme Makeover – Museum Goes Green Directors Panel Discussion Art Concepts + Design Team = Interactive Gallery Each year our Affinity Groups and Standing Professional Volunteers: Maximizing Your Greatest Resource Reinventing the Wheel – Committees identify sessions with information on their Lessons Learned on Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail specific areas of interest. Affinity Group and Standing Collections I Just Need Some Pretty Pictures Professional Committee endorsements of sessions are Collection Plans – How To! Museum Inclusion: Dollars and Sense noted in the Annual Meeting Program session descriptions Catastrophe Risk Management – NAME Exhibit Walk & Talk as follows: Disaster Preparation and Recovery (AAMG) Association of Academic Private Collections/Public Museums General Museums & Galleries Collecting Ethics in the Real World Career Center Public Speaking Workshop (EdCom) Educators Committee We Just Don’t Have the Money: Best Practices for Revitalizing with IMLS (HHMAG) Historic House Museums Affinity Group Improving Security Despite Reduced Staff & Budgets A Toolkit for Unintended Career Transitions (NAME) National Association for Museum Exhibition SERA Behind-the-Scenes Tour of LSU Museum of Art AAM Listening Session (SEMC CURCOM) SEMC Curators Committee The Shaw Center for the Arts: (SERA) Southeastern Registrars Association Curatorial Where Art Meets Community (SETEG) Southeastern Traveling Exhibits Group Exhibition Catalogues – Stitch & Chat Networking From Drafting Table to Digital Age A Student’s Eye View of Museum Internships Curator Paper Presentations A Re-Invigorating View of Peer Review SEMC 2010 ANNUAL MEETING TRACKS Private Collections/Public Museums Will Your Museum Be Open in 2020? Collecting Ethics in the Real World Directors Track: On Thursday, October 14, SEMC is I Just Need Some Pretty Pictures! Marketing offering a series of sessions, a luncheon, and a panel Exhibition Catalogues – discussion specifically designed for southeastern museum Development From Drafting Table to Digital Age directors. Revitalizing with IMLS Heritage Areas: Advancing Through Partnerships The Power of Email Marketing The Power of Email Marketing Corporate Track: Presenters for these sessions, which I Just Need Some Pretty Pictures Museum Inclusion: Dollars and Sense focus on topics of general interest to museums, must Museums and Social Media include both SEMC Corporate Members and museum NEH Opportunities for Your Museum Technology representatives. Museums and Social Media Education The Power of Email Marketing Commercial Session Track: These sessions, proposed and Cheap But Good: Museum Education Programs presented by SEMC Corporate Members who are also Art Concepts + Design Team = Interactive Gallery exhibitors, may provide information regarding commercial Heritage Areas: Advancing Through Partnerships assistance to museums. Museum Inclusion: Dollars and Sense

12 Session Sponsorships, Tracks, and Topics Session Sponsorships, Tracks, and Topics 13 SORS N & International Transport Consultants O SEMC 2010 annual meeting program committee SEMC 2010 OFFICERS, DIRECTORS & STAFF P (Registrars Respite co-sponsor) FIRST CLASS FIRST S Willis Fine Art & Specie Program Committee Co-Coordinator: Officers (Registrars Respite co-sponsor) Clayton Bass, Director President: Kristen Miller Zohn Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL Curator of Collections & Exhibitions, SEMC Program Committee Co-Coordinator: The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEEs Nancy S. Perry, Director Vice President: George Bassi 2010 Louisiana Host Committee Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA Director, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS S Genny Nadler Thomas, Executive Director Affinity Group Coordinator: Secretary: Carrie Taylor C O E E Louisiana Association of Museums Karen Kelly, Director of Exhibits & Education Collections Manager, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA M T T Philipa Blair, Director of Destination Services Imagine It! The Children’s Museum of Atlanta, Treasurer: Micheal Hudson M I Baton Rouge Convention & Visitor Bureau Atlanta, GA Director, Museum of the American Printing House for Tom Livesay, Executive Director Annual Meeting Committee Chair: the Blind, Louisville, KY LSU Museum of Art George Bassi, Director : Robert Rathburn sponsors Past President William Stark, Museum Division Director Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS Executive Director, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Tote Bag & Lanyard Sponsor Louisiana State Museum-Baton Rouge Local Arrangements Committee Coordinator: Landmark, Birmingham, AL Riggs Ward Design Julia Rose, Executive Director Genny Nadler Thomas, Executive Director West Baton Rouge Parish Museum Louisiana Association of Museums, Directors Resource Expo Sponsors Carolyn Bennett, Executive Director Baton Rouge, LA Scott Alvey, Director of the Design Studio, Solid Light, Inc. (Opening Reception Bourbon Tasting) Foundation for Historical Louisiana SEMC Corporate Representative: Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY Heaven Hill Distilleries (Opening Reception Bourbon Tasting) & Old Governor’s Mansion Sherri Fisher Staples, Principal Katie Harrington, Director, Travelers Insurance (Silent Auction Closing Reception) Sam Losavio, Assistant Director Cinebar Productions, Newport News, VA The Delta Cultural Center, Helena, AR Louisiana Art and Science Museum Silent Auction Coordinator: Mary LaGue, Collections Manager, Evening Event Sponsors Nancy Chesson, Director of Events Jenny Lamb, Director of Interpretation & Education Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA BRC Imagination Arts Louisiana’s Old State Capitol Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, TN Kathryn A. Lang, Curator, Jean Lafitte National (A Taste of Louisiana History) Makalah Ingram Brown, Independent Historical Park and Preserve, New Orleans, LA Heirloom Cuisine (Evening Event catering) Evening Events Committee Museum Professional, Ocean Springs, MS Darcie MacMahon, Exhibits Director, Florida Museum Louisiana Art & Science Museum Cindy Verdin, Event Coordinator Dawn Deano Hammatt, Managing Director of Natural History, Gainesville, FL (Art & Science Evening) Louisiana Art and Science Museum Upcountry History Museum, Greenville SC Christine Miller-Betts, Director, Lucy Craft Laney Louisiana Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Claire Trahan, Special Events Coordinator Brian Hicks, Director Museum of Black History, Augusta, GA Dept. of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, Louisiana State Foundation for Historical Louisiana Desoto County Museum, Hernando MS Melissa Morgan, Assistant Director, Centre for Living Museum Baton Rouge (A Taste of Louisiana History) & Old Governor’s Mansion Darcie MacMahon, Exhibits Director Arts, Space 301, Mobile, AL LSU Museum of Art (Art & Science Evening) Debbie Bennett, Special Events Coordinator Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL Robin Seage Person, Branch Director, Historic The Foundation for Historical Louisiana, Louisiana’s Old State Capitol Christine Miller-Betts, Director Jefferson College, Washington, MS Old Governor’s Mansion (A Taste of Louisiana History) Rene B. Payton, Marketing Director Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Allison Reid, Director, Exhibitions and Programs, Secretary of State Museums Division, Louisiana’s LSU Museum of Art Augusta, GA Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art, Old State Capitol (A Taste of Louisiana History) Kelly Spell, Communications Coordinator Melissa Morgan, Assistant Director Nashville, TN Visit Baton Rouge – Baton Rouge Area Convention Louisiana Art and Science Museum Centre for the Living Arts, Space 301, Mobile, AL Alexis Thompson, Museum Specialist, National Museum & Visitors Bureau (Evening Event transportation) Georgette Norman, Director of the Marine Corps, Triangle, VA West Baton Rouge Museum Silent Auction Committee Troy University Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, AL Karen Utz, Curator, Sloss Furnaces National Historic (Band Sponsor) Ashley Pierce, Information and Events Coordinator Carrie Taylor, Collections Manager Landmark, Birmingham, AL Louisiana State Museum Baton Rouge Monticello, Charlottesville, VA SEMC Scholarship Sponsors Mary Kay Bertaut, Community Volunteer Alice Taylor-Colbert, Dean, College of Arts & Staff International Transport Consultants (Day Pass Scholarship) Louisiana Secretary of State Office Humanities, Lander University, Greenwood, SC Pamela Meister, Kristen Miller Zohn (President’s Scholarship) Deborah Thomas, Collections Manager Interim Executive Director LaPaglia & Associates (HHMAG Scholarship) Graphic Design and Signage Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA Sam Losavio, Assistant Director Alexis Thompson, Museum Specialist Atlanta History Center Support Team SERA Sponsors Louisiana Art and Science Museum National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, VA Jeff Rutledge, AHC Vice-President of Finance Aon-Huntington T. Block Insurance Mark Tullos, Director, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Cindy Franks, AHC Staff Accountant (SERA scholarship sponsor) Art Museum, Lafayette LA Regina Copeland, AHC Accounts Receivable Specialist 14 Sponsors and Committees Sponsors and Committees 15 ESDAY 11:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n harvesting as we travel to one of the few U greening operations – facilities, exhibits

FIRST CLASS FIRST T ME PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING surviving grand plantation “big houses,” and print – with ethics and budget as L ET — Victory Room, Mezzanine Floor Nottoway, where we will tour the Gothic SEMC inspiration. Join us for a fun informative A IN Program Committee Coordinators: Nancy Perry, Revival mansion and gardens. (Pre- session that can give you new tools to FIRST CLASS FIRST U Director, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA; registration required) O 2010 2 reinvent. (Sponsors: AAMG, NAME, SETEG) G C 1 N Clayton Bass, Director, Huntsville Museum of Art, T O B E R Huntsville, AL 1:00 p m – 2:30 p m CONCURRENT Collection Plans – How To! N 2010 Program Committee members will meet sessions — Capitol Room

A SEMC briefly to review on-site duties and discuss any last Moderator: Kyle Elizabeth Bryner, Registrar and minute issues. Career Center Workshop: Public Speaking Collections Manager, Museum of Anthropology, Wake 2010 — Paramount Room Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 11:30 a m – 1:00 p m JIMI LUNCHEON Moderator: Elise V. LeCompte, Registrar, Florida Presenters: Jennae Biddiscombe, Registrar, P M — University Room Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA; Kathryn A. R A JIMI Coordinator: Martha Battle Jackson, Curator of This workshop is for those who would like to be Lang, Curator, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & O G R Technology, NC Historic Sites, Raleigh, NC more effective communicators. Learn techniques and Preserve, New Orleans, LA; Frank Thomson, Curator, SEMC’s nationally acclaimed Jekyll Island tips to help overcome some common pitfalls of public Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Management Institute (JIMI) is celebrating its speaking. The workshop will be led by people with Every museum needs a collections plan but it is 10th anniversary in 2010. All JIMI alumni, faculty years of experience in public speaking and public a difficult process to begin and sustain. As part of members, supporters, and those interested in learning performance. this “how-to” session, presenters will discuss their TUESDAY more about the program are invited to join us for institution’s experience with collections planning, as OCTOBER 12 muffalettas, networking, and fun! Exhibition Catalogues – From Drafting well as demystifying the steps to writing a successful (Pre-registration required) Table to Digital Age collections plan. (Sponsors: AAMG, SEMC CURCOM, 7:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n — Louisiana Room HHMAG, SERA) HHMAG Hands-on help 11:30 a m – 1:00 p m Presenter: Ron Shore, Principal, Ron Shore Design, — Meet in Hilton lobby state museum association LUNCHEON Brisbane, CA Cheap But Good: Project Coordinator: Leslie Keller, Curator, Hickory — Hunt Room, Mezzanine Floor Join graphic designer Ron Shore for a discussion Museum Education Programs Landmarks Society, Hickory, NC By invitation only. (Pre-registration required) on the creative and mechanical aspects of museum — King Room Join the Historic House Museum Affinity Group exhibition catalogues. What are the steps involved Moderator: Tina Smith, Educator, (HHMAG) in a fun work session that will benefit one 12:45 p m – 5:00 p m sugar country tour in producing an effective publication? How have the Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest of our Baton Rouge host institutions: Magnolia Mound — Meet in Hilton Lobby to board buses. tools and process changed from the drafting table, University, Winston-Salem, NC Plantation (ca. 1791), a rare survivor of the vernacular Tour Coordinator: Julia Rose, Director, West Baton through the invention of the personal computer and Presenters: Robin Person, Branch Director, Historic architecture influenced by early settlers from France Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA software such as Quark, InDesign and Photoshop? Jefferson College, Washington, MS; Kara Edwards, and the West Indies. At Magnolia Mound volunteers October is sugar cane harvest season, and it is a What does the future hold for traditional offset Museum Manager, TREE House Children’s Museum, will be divided into groups to accomplish several small quick five-minute trip over the Mississippi River Bridge lithographic “bound” publications compared to Alexandria, LA; Rae Mathis, Marketing Director, Oren projects. (Pre-registration required) to rural south Louisiana. Tour participants will learn online catalogues and e-books or handheld devices? Dunn City Museum, Tupelo, MS; Janice Anthony, about the history of sugar cane cultivation from field (Commercial Track Session) Education Director, Oren Dunn City Museum, 8:00 a m – 6:00 p m Registration to factory, and experience life on a sugar plantation Tupelo, MS — First floor hallway from antebellum times to the Civil Rights era. The Extreme Makeover – Museum Goes Green This session will look at a variety of successful story of sugar cane begins at the West Baton Rouge — Governor Room and profitable educational programs from different 8:00 a m – 11:30 a m Museum, where we’ll visit the Aillet House (c. 1830), Moderator: Darcie MacMahon, Exhibits Director, museums that have been produced inexpensively. semc council meeting a French Creole cottage, and three historic cabins Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL Come discover how these programs can be adapted — Victory Room, Mezzanine Floor from Allendale Plantation: a slave cabin (c. 1850), a Presenters: Elecia Crumpton, Lead Graphic Designer, for any institution and ways to fund them. Questions Open to current and incoming SEMC Council Freedom family cabin (c. 1870), and a field worker’s Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL; and discussion are encouraged. Look at program members. cabin (c. 1960). Then on to Cinclare Plantation and Terence Healy, Principal, HealyKohler Design, Takoma examples and make a craft. (Sponsor: EdCom) Sugar Mill, the longest running sugar mill in the parish Park, MD; Hank Houser, Partner, Houser Walker 8:00 a m – 1:00 p m (1855–2005). A stop at the Plaquemine Lock State Architecture, Atlanta, GA; Steven Rosen, President & 2:30 p m – 6:00 p m resource expo open RESOURCE EXPO SETUP Historic Site brings visitors directly to the Mississippi Principal, Available Light, Boston, MA — Riverview Ballroom River to see how sugar and goods were transported Ready to re-invent your museum with more 2:30 p m – 3:00 p m resource expo from sugar plantations to the refineries in northern sustainable practices? Join our “Extreme Makeover” iced tea & cookie break states. Take in vistas of cane fields in the process of featuring an actual SEMC museum and our tips for 16 Program:Tuesday Program:Tuesday 17 ESDAY ESDAY 3:00 p m – 4:30 p m CONCURRENT U development of a more robust risk vision of the past dovetailed nicely U understand where to go to meet

FIRST CLASS FIRST T CLASS FIRST T sessions management strategy in a crisis. with the story of America being fellow colleagues in the field SEMC We will discuss practices that will honored during the Bicentennial SEMC and learn where to find answers Catastrophe Risk Management: save museums money before, celebrations of 1976, when to questions pertaining to job Disaster Preparation and O 2010 2 during, and after the crisis, and her work was discovered and O 2010 2 roles. This roundtable discussion C 1 C 1 Recovery T O E R offer ideas on how to significantly promoted by a folk art field agent T O E R will address online networking — Paramount Room B reduce loss to collections and income. of the Smithsonian Institution. B resources, tips for networking at Moderator: Caroline Chisholm, (Corporate Track Session) conferences, and offer suggestions Account Executive, Travelers Inland, “Unraveling the Mystery of on how to get off to a great start in your Alpharetta, GA Art Concept + Design Team = the LASM Mummy” first full-time museum job. Participants are Presenters: Alice M. Whelihan, Indemnity Interactive Gallery Presenter: Elizabeth Weinstein, Museum encouraged to bring questions and share Administrator, National Endowment for the — Louisiana Room Curator, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, ideas. (Sponsor: SETEG) Arts, Washington, DC; Melissa Agresta, Vice Moderator: Carolyn Faraci, Deputy Director, Baton Rouge, LA President, Willis Fine Art, Jewelry and Specie, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL The Louisiana Art & Science Museum’s most Reinventing the Wheel: Lessons Learned on Washington, DC; Rudy Racine, Program Presenters: Nick Parker, VP Exhibits, Inergi popular collection object is a 2,300 year-old Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail Claims Unit Manager, Travelers Insurance, Exhibit Design, Huntsville, AL; Harry DeLorme, mummy. Extensive medical and historical — King Room Tampa, FL; Steven High, Director, Telfair Senior Curator of Education, Telfair Museums, research was performed with surprising Moderator: Cynthia Torp, President, Museums, Savannah, GA Savannah, GA results as part of a larger project to update Solid Light, Inc., Louisville, KY A panel of museum representatives and fine How does the museum translate its art an aging display. Analysis not only revealed Presenters: Sarah Yates, Creative Director, arts risk management professionals will offer concepts into an environment where learning statistics such as the mummy’s gender and an Solid Light, Inc., Louisville, KY; Lynne Grant, a variety of perspectives on how partnering and enjoyment are combined into one terrific approximation of appearance during life, but Director of Guest Services, Heaven Hill with your insurance carrier can assist in the experience – for children and adults? How also that the body was not mummified in the Bourbon Heritage Center, Bardsville, KY does the Museum choose the right design typical sense at all! partner to transport its visitors into another world? This session will provide the nuts and “The Bowie Knife and bolts of successfully developing an interactive the Image of the South” gallery designed to engage, entertain, and Presenter: Bill Worthen, Director, Historic educate children and adults. (Sponsors: Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR EdCom, NAME) This presentation will trace the Bowie from its origins in the Mississippi River Valley of Curatorial Research Paper Presentations the 1820s and 30s, through its role in the — Governor Room code duello, to its presence in the Civil War. Moderator: Michele McGuire, Curator, Using political cartoons and other forms Fayetteville, AR of documentation, Worthen will trace the Three curators from Southeastern museums meanings and associations given to the knife will address topics of current scholarly that made it a symbol of the South and of the object-based research in a professional violence of the region in antebellum America. paper presentation format. (Sponsor: SEMC CURCOM) Reinforce Your New Career With Networking — Capitol Room “The Needle’s Song: Ethel Wright Mohamed, Moderator: James Quint, Education Stitchery, and Nostalgia” Coordinator, Historic Columbia Foundation, Presenter: Dr. Jill R. Chancey, Curator, Columbia, SC Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS Presenters: Jessamyn Boyd, Curatorial Belzoni, Mississippi, fiber artist Ethel Services, Alabama Department of Archives Wright Mohamed (1906–1992) created a & History, Montgomery, AL; Carrie Bowers, nostalgic vision of her family’s complex Museum Specialist, National Museum of the history, interweaving her immigrant husband’s Marine Corps, Triangle, VA Lebanese culture with her own rural Southern How do you find your place in the larger culture in both her art and her family life. Her museum community? It’s important to 18 Program:Tuesday Program:Tuesday 19 ESDAY NESDA It’s a favorite axiom of CEOs, U All new SEMC members, first time tap your feet or dance to the ED Y After a brief business meeting, FIRST CLASS FIRST T CLASS FIRST EDs, and Board Chairs: “Listen, Annual Meeting attendees, and sounds of Louisiana music by W SEMC members will receive a people – no reason to reinvent SEMC participants in the Annual Meeting Mr. Eric Baskin of Quality Music SEMC warm Louisiana welcome from the wheel!” Except, sometimes Ambassador program are invited Production. It’s time to relax and Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden. you have to – if you want to O 2010 2 to meet, greet and network with let your hair down, chère, you O 2010 3 Louisiana Secretary of State Jay C 1 C 1 engage a new generation of T O E R SEMC Council members in a brief are in Louisiana! (Pre-registration T O E R Dardenne will present the keynote visitors with a story you’ve told B welcome and guide to the programs, required) B speech, “Louisiana Lagniappe,” a lively for decades. Solid Light, an exhibit activities and events of the 2010 Annual and colorful look at Louisiana’s culture, design firm, will share the tips and tricks Meeting. history, music and politics. The Secretary they’ve learned, telling the same story in three of State’s office operates and maintains different projects, for three wildly unique 4:30 p m – 6:00 p m RESOURCE EXPO/ WEDNESDAY 17 museums throughout Louisiana for the clients. (Commercial Track Session) SILENT AUCTION GRAND OPENING OCTOBER 13 education and entertainment of the state’s RECEPTION residents and visitors. 4:30 p m – 5:00 p m NEW MEMBERS/ — Riverside Ballroom 7:30 a m – 8:45 a m FIRST TIME MEETING ATTENDEES Kick off the conference on a festive note downtown baton rouge 10:00 a m – 12:00 n o o n resource expo ORIENTATION with a Bourbon tasting hosted by Solid Light, walking tour OPEN — University Room Inc. and led by Lynne Grant, Director of Guest — Meet in Hilton Lobby Moderators: Kristen Miller Zohn, SEMC Services at Heaven Hill Bourbon Heritage A Wednesday morning walking tour will 10:00 a m – 10:30 a m President & Curator of Collections and Center. Enjoy drinks and snacks while explore downtown Baton Rouge’s landmark resource expo coffee break Exhibitions, The Columbus Museum, networking with the Resource Expo exhibitors buildings and quirky neighborhoods. Columbus, GA; George Bassi, SEMC Vice- and checking out the Silent Auction offerings. All proceeds from the walk will support 10:30 a m – 12:00 n o o n off-site Session President & Director, Lauren Rogers Museum All auction proceeds will fund scholarships to scholarships to the SEMC 2011 Annual The Shaw Center for the Arts: Where Art of Art, Laurel, MS the 2011 Annual Meeting in Greenville, South Meeting. (Pre-registration required) Meets Community Carolina. (Bourbon tasting sponsors: Solid — Turner Gallery, Third Floor, Shaw Center Light, Inc. and Heaven Hill Distilleries) 7:30 a m – 8:45 a m HHMAG breakfast for the Arts — University Room 6:30 p m – 10:00 p m evening event Coordinator: Leslie Keller, Curator of Collec­ Louisiana Art & Science Museum tions, Hickory Landmarks Society, Hickory, NC and LSU Museum of Art The mission of the Historic House Museums — Meet in Hilton lobby at 6:30 pm for Affinity Group (HHMAG) is to address 2nd line parade issues of interest to historic house museums Kick off the evening on a festive note by by providing educational programming, strolling down Lafayette Street escorted by a workshops, and networking opportunities second line Mardi Gras band. Your first stop is for the staff and volunteers of historic house the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, where museums in the SEMC region. If you are a an innovative exhibition by world-renowned member or interested in becoming one, please Louisiana artist Keith Sonnier will be on view. join us for a discussion of current and potential Take in Sonnier’s first museum show in his programs and activities. (Pre-registration home state, and explore the planetarium’s required) Solar System and Universe Galleries while you sip libations and dine on appetizers that hit all 8:00 a m – 5:00 p m Registration the highlights of Louisiana’s cultural heritage. — First Floor hallway Recharge your appetite with a stroll to the LSU Museum of Art at the Shaw Center for 9:00 a m – 10:00 a m general Session the Arts. Enjoy the best view in town of the SEMC Annual Business Meeting mighty Mississippi River from the 4th floor and Keynote Speech River Terrace. Indulge in a Louisiana menu — Heidelberg Ballroom, Tenth Floor including crispy fried catfish, red beans and Moderator: Kristen Miller Zohn, Curator of rice with andouille sausage and desserts Collections and Exhibitions, The Columbus that will make you smile. Snap your fingers, Museum, Columbus, GA 20 Program:Tuesday Program: Wednesday 21