The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) and the International Council of Museums’ Committee (ICOM) for University Museums and Collections (UMAC) 2018 Joint Conference Audacious Ideas: University Museums and Collections as Change-Agents for a Better World June 21-24, 2018 University of Miami 1 The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) and the International Council of Museums’ Committee (ICOM) for University Museums and Collections (UMAC) 2018 Joint Conference Audacious Ideas: University Museums and Collections as Change-Agents for a Better World June 21-24, 2018, University of Miami We live in a dangerous, often unstable, and environmentally compromised world. What can academic museums, galleries, and collections do to remedy this situation? If we are dedicated to teaching and training new generations of students and to serving increasingly diverse communities, how do we make a positive difference? And how do we assess the impact that we are making? Audacious Ideas provides a lively platform for the sharing of exciting ideas about how museums, galleries, and collections can serve as change-agents. This year’s program addresses how constituents are adopting new roles and adapting old ones, welcoming new constituencies while keeping current visitors, and enhancing our value as critical partners in higher education while promoting a more just, peaceful, and healthy world. Conference Program Co-Directors: Jill Hartz, Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, and President Emerita, AAMG Barbara Rothermel, Director, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College / Vice-Chair, UMAC Conference Program Committee: Jill Deupi, Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Tracy Fitzpatrick, Director, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, AAMG Vice President, Programs Marta C. Lourenço, President, ICOM-UMAC, Deputy Director Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa Andrew Simpson, Honorary Fellow, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Australia 2 Board of Directors 2018 AAMG 2018 UMAC Board of Directors Board of Directors John Versluis, President Marta C. Lourenco, Chair Jill Hartz, President Emerita and Co-director, Barbara Rothermel, Vice Chair AAMG-UMAC Conference Graciela Weisinger Cordero, Vice Chair Dr. Lana Burgess, At-Large, Professional Development Marcus Granato, Secretary Dr. Anja Chávez, Secretary Nathalie Nyst, Treasurer Pam Campanaro, At-Large, Conference Planning Marine Mkrtchyan, Web Editor Nicole Crawford, Mountain-Plains Regional Representative (Northern States) Andrew Simpson, UMACJ Editor Dr. Jill Deupi, VP, Affiliate Liaison and Co-Chair, Task Lyndel King, Newsletter Editor Force of the Protection of University Collections Fatemeh Ahmadi Angelica Docog, Mountain-Plains Regional Elena Corradini Representative (Southern States) Akiko Fukuno Kristina Durocher, New England Regional Maria Luisa Rico Mansard Representative and Nominating Chair Scott Harris, Southeast Regional Co-Representative Tracy Fitzpatrick, Vice President, Programs Craig Hadley, Vice President, Communications We are First-time Presenter Grants Dr. Joyce Ice, Southeast Regional Co-Representative deeply Mingqian Liu Judith Kirk, At-Large, Conference Sponsorship grateful to the Jessica Stepp Katie Lee Koven, Vice President, State & Regional Representatives Samuel H. Kress Student Travel Grants Noah Barth Conference Program Co-Directors: Dr. Natalie Marsh, Midwest Regional Representative Foundation for John Jay Boda Jill Hartz, Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, and President Emerita, AAMG Joseph Mella, Treasurer Barbara Rothermel, Director, Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College / Vice-Chair, UMAC its support in Ashley Simmons Coffey Dr. Jordana Pomeroy, At-Large, Diversity Vanessa Forbes-Pateman Conference Program Committee: Anna-Maria Shannon, Vice President, Membership making possible Jean Graves Jill Deupi, Beaux Arts Director and Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Michelle Jones Jamaal Sheats, At-Large, Student Engagement the following Tracy Fitzpatrick, Director, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, AAMG Vice President, Programs Julia Kilgore Marta C. Lourenço, President, ICOM-UMAC, Deputy Director Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa Denise Stangl, Mid-Atlantic Regional Representative grants to AAMG Rachel McDermitt Andrew Simpson, Honorary Fellow, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Australia John Wetenhall, Vice President, Strategic Planning Rebecca Prinster and Co-Chair, Task Force of the Protection of University members: Jessica Weller Collections 3 We Thank our Sponsors Sterling Sponsorship John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Premier Sponsorship Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Lead Sponsorship Museum Travel Alliance Track Sponsors Leadership & Advisory Boards WiFi Sponsor Gund Gallery Board of Directors Cultural Strategy Partners Exhibitions & Collections Scholarships Gund Gallery Staff and Associates Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fundraising & General Operations Friday Affinity Dinners: Kellogg School of Management Executive Education “Conservation and Preservation” Conservation Center for Art & Historic Audience Development & Engagement Artifacts DePauw University Peeler Art Center “Deaccessioning” Marketing & Technology Cowan’s Auctions Inc Four Colour Printing Group AAMG Networking Reception at AAM Access, Diversity & Inclusion Christie’s Artex Fine Art Services Supporter Session Sponsor Crystalizations Systems, Inc. Center for Visual Communication 4 Association of Academic Museums & Galleries CENTER FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION e Samuel H. Kress Foundation FOUR COLOUR PRINT GROUP a project of CAA 5 Thursday, June 21, 2018 Pre-Conference Activities 9:00 a.m.–3 p.m. | Special Workshop: 1:00 p.m. Corporate Sponsors and Bootcamp for Academic Museums Poster Session set-up with Jill Hartz and Barbara Rothermel (3rd floor elevator, lobby Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami and corridor) 2:30 p.m. Registration Opens EXCURSIONS: Shalala Student Center (SC) (3rd floor, top of stairs) 3:30-4:30 p.m. Roundtables (Ballroom) 5:30-6:30 p.m. Throwdowns THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY 6:30-8:30 p.m. Opening Night Reception ART, MIAMI icamiami.org Roundtable Sponsorship VIZCAYA ICOM-US vizcaya.org A to Z: Infusing the Encyclopedic FROST SCIENCE MUSEUM Collection with New Life (LAM) frostscience.org Facilitators: Jon Mogul, Associate Director, Curatorial and Education, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University; Jill Deupi, Director and Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, Room Assignment Key University of Miami; and William Eiland, Director, University of Georgia Art Museum BW = Ballroom West This Roundtable will focus on clearly articulating the challeng- BC = Ballroom Center es associated with presenting historic and/or encyclopedic collections, as well as sharing information about successful BE = Ballroom East strategies for display and engagement. Participants will be invited to brainstorm collectively and to think expansively IA = Iron Arrow about new ways for enlivening such holdings. S = Senate Categories: Audience Development & Engagement; Access, Diversity & Inclusion; and Exhibitions & Collections LAM = Lowe Art Museum *All programs are at the UM Shalala Student Center (SC) unless otherwise noted 6 Thursday, June 21, 2018 Whose Academic Museum?: Transforming This Roundtable will discuss university museum collec- a Community Museum into an Academic tions from two angles: 1) how university museums might, in the future, provide a home for private collections of Museum for All (BC) non-AAMD-compliant antiquities (such as those lacking docu- Facilitator: H. Alexander Rich, Ph.D., Curator and Director of mentation back to 1970), where issues of provenance, cultural Galleries & Exhibitions, Polk Museum of Art, and Assistant property, forgery, etc., can be foregrounded in research, Professor of Art History, Florida Southern College teaching, and displays; and 2) how university museums This Roundtable will explore strategies for “academizing” a respond when objects already in the collection are discovered museum so that it caters effectively to both campus and com- to have been stolen or looted. The varied backgrounds of the munity audiences. Attendees will learn strategies for engag- participants, from the fields of law, museology and art history, ing all visitors academically and for presenting a museum’s will allow for a rich diversity of perspectives regarding how didactic mission as a key draw for students, professors, and museums can change their policies to better protect them- general audiences alike. selves and objects of cultural heritage, and how both sides can work together to create positive change in the role of Categories: Audience Development & Engagement; Access, Diversity & museum and their collections in society. Inclusion; and Exhibitions & Collections Categories: Access, Diversity & Inclusion and Exhibitions & Collections Meeting Them Where They Are: Engaging Students through Exhibitions and Crowd-Sourced Curating to Engage Programming in Communal Spaces (S) Current and New Audiences (BE) Facilitator: Jillian Nakornthap, Exhibitions and Public Programming Associate, Corcoran School of the Arts and Facilitator: Heather Gibson Moqtaderi, Assistant Director & Design, The George Washington University Associate Curator, Arthur Ross Gallery,