Downtown Rockford Anderson Japanese Gardens Coronado Theatre Welcome to Rockford! Join IAM at Rockford’s Riverfront Museum Park to network with colleagues, learn from the Illinois museum community, and share ideas and challenges. Networking events, vendor hall, tours, awards dinner, sessions, workshops, roundtables, and Ninety Second Musings all await you in Rockford! Nicholas Conservatory Klehm Arboretum Ethnic Heritage Museum Conference Information Conference Location Riverfront Museum Park (711 N Main St. #7, Rockford, IL 61103) is home to the Burpee Museum of Natural History, the Discovery Center Museum, and the Rockford Art Museum. The museums will be open each day during the conference from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Discovery Center Museum will close at 4 p.m. on Friday). Riverfront Museum Park Getting There CITY DISTANCE TIME DIRECTIONS Bloomington-Normal 131 miles 2 – 2.5 hours North on I-39 Champaign-Urbana 190 miles 3 – 3.5 hours Northwest on I-74 to Bloomington-Normal, then North on I-39 Chicago 90 miles 1.5 – 2 hours West on I-90* Peoria 135 miles 2.5 hours West on US Highway 24 to El Paso, then North on I-39 Quad Cities 125 miles 2 hours East on I-88 to Rochelle, then North on I-39 Springfield 207 miles 3 – 3.5 hours North on I-55 to Bloomington-Normal, then North on I-39 Carbondale 366 miles 5.5 – 6 hours West on I-64 to IL Rte 4 to I-55N, then North on I-39 *Alternative route if you wish to avoid construction on I-90, take I-88 West to I-39 North. For more information, visit www.illinoistollway.com. The Host Hotel and the alternate hotel are both located directly off of I-90 at the East State Street exit. Directions from the hotel to the Riverfront Museum Park will be available at your hotel’s front desk. Shuttles will also be provided between the Host Hotel, the Riverfront Museum Park, and event venues throughout the conference. Additional information will be provided regarding shuttles prior to the conference, and will also be available at your hotel’s front desk throughout your stay. Accommodations Host Hotel: The Holiday Inn of Rockford (7550 E State St., Rockford, IL 61108) boasts modern accommodations, prime location, and a full service restaurant and bar on site. This property is pet friendly (fees apply), so feel free to bring Fido along for the ride! A block of rooms is held under the “Illinois Association of Museums” until September 21 at the Holiday Inn of Rockford for $92.95 per night. Call 815.398.2200 to reserve your room. Additional rooms reserved at: Courtyard by Marriott Rockford (7676 E State St., Rockford, IL 61108) is a newly renovated hotel that is sure to impress. Visit Courtyard’s signature Eat. Drink. Connect Bistro featuring delicious menu options as well as Starbucks coffee! A block of rooms is held under the “Illinois Holiday Inn Rockford Association of Museums” until October 3 at the Courtyard Marriott of Rockford for $115 per night. Call 815.397.6222 to reserve your room. Conference Registration For more information or to register for the conference, visit our website at www.illinoisassociationofmuseums.org. For paper registrations, please call 217.524.6977. Major Sponsors Courtyard by Marriott Rockford 2 | IAM Conference 2014 Wednesday, October 22 NOTE: All conference events and programs are subject to change. A final agenda will be posted on the website prior to the conference and a conference booklet will be provided at registration. Workshops (9:30 a.m. – Noon) Day 1 Overview Exhibit Design: Creating Models to Build Teams Registration: Noon – 6 p.m. Chair: Rich Faron, Museum Explorer, Inc. Vendor Hall: 1 – 6 p.m. This workshop covers an introduction to exhibition design, a design- Workshops: 9:30 a.m. – Noon build challenge, development and design while working in teams, Bus Tours: 1 – 3 p.m. building foam-core exhibits or cart, and a review and critique where Opening Reception & Networking: 4 – 6 p.m. groups present their final design as finished ‘Models’ and are critiqued Awards Dinner: 6 – 9 p.m. by the other members of the workshop. Evaluation 101: Start Small Chair: Lorrie J. Beaumont Ed.D., Evergreene Research and Evaluation, LLC Evaluation can be pretty intimidating to most people. It’s scary enough to be evaluated, but how does someone with very little background knowledge or experience go about conducting evaluation? In this workshop, participants will learn that evaluation isn’t really that difficult, it’s about answering three simple questions: 1) What? 2) So what? 3) Now what? Tinker Swiss Cottage Bus Tours (1 – 3 p.m.) Op tion 1: Tinker Swiss Cottage and Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens 1) The Tinker family left this Swiss-style home to the Rockford Park District after 75 years of residence so it could be utilized as a museum and display all of the original furnishings and belongings. 2) Situated along the banks of the Rock River, Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens is the third largest conservatory in Illinois, with 11,000 sq ft of plant exhibition areas, water features, seating areas, and sculptures. Option 2: Ethnic Heritage Museum and Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden 1) The Ethnic Heritage Museum houses six fascinating galleries devoted to the primary immigrant groups that first settled in southwest Rockford. 2) Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden is a 155-acre living museum filled with spectacular gardens and rare trees. Op tion 3: Laurent House and Anderson Japanese Gardens 1) Frank Lloyd Wright’s Laurent House is the only building ever designed by the famed architect for a person with a disability. 2) The 12 acres of Anderson Japanese Gardens has been named the Finest Japanese Garden in North America by the Journal of Japanese Gardening. Opening Reception (4 – 6 p.m.) Happy 20th Anniversary IAM! Enjoy cocktails and light refreshments as we kick off the annual meeting in Rockford. Visit the vendor hall and network with museum colleagues before the evening Awards Dinner. Awards Dinner (6 – 9 p.m.) Held at the Rockford Art Museum, guests will be able to network with colleagues and be inspired with the music, the museum, and the best practices of museums all over Illinois. Rockford Art Museum DAY 1 Please register online at IllinoisAssociationOfMuseums.org | 3 Thursday, October 23 Sessions (8:30 – 9:45 a.m.) Day 2 Overview Trophies of War and the Battle over Ownership Registration: 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. Chair: Bill Lear, Curator, Illinois State Military Museum Vendor Hall: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. A Texas museum recently mounted a social media campaign to demand Sessions: 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.; 10 – 11:15 a.m. that the Illinois Military Museum give Santa Anna’s artificial leg to Roundtables: 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Texas. In this seminar, learn how to respond when another museum or Keynote Luncheon: 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. individual claims ownership or rights to an artifact in your collection. The Sessions: 2 – 3:15 p.m. seminar will also discuss the legal and ethical questions when accepting Ninety Second Musings: 4 – 5 p.m. artifacts, the reasons on both sides of the Texas deaccession request Afternoon Walking Tours: 4 – 5 p.m. and media relations techniques. Evening Event at Midway Village: 6 – 9 p.m. Museum Studies Programs Transform Communities Chair: Patricia Miller, Visiting Lecturer, Eastern Illinois University Museum study programs strengthen communities through internship placement in local museums, and offer opportunities for museum staff to further professional training. In this session, three faculty members from universities in Illinois will describe how their programs train graduate students and help museums meet professional standards. Making History Hands-On for Schools Chair: Katie Kelly, Educator, Midway Village Museum This session provides an overview of unique programs provided by Midway Village Museum and others that seek to engage students in hands-on learning through narrative, demonstrations, reproduction artifacts, and other devices. Discovery Center Museum Sessions (10 – 11:15 a.m.) Backing the Brand: Museums Embrace Communities Chair: Sharon Bradham, Executive Director, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts The purpose of the panel will be to share how museums and communities can work together to increase awareness of the arts and improve the quality of life for residents, thereby showing how the arts and museums are relevant to a community. Transforming a Volunteer Program Chair: Beth Shea, Director of Education, Illinois State Museum To transform is to change, usually in a good way. In this session you will hear about two museum volunteer programs that have recently transformed due to societal and institutional changes. Best practices for transforming a volunteer program tools, “lessons learned,” and techniques for active volunteering will also be shared. Big Ideas and Big Impact: Historic Houses as Community Anchors Chair: Caroline Goldthorpe, University of Oklahoma, Northwestern University Learn about ways historic houses engage their communities from sustainable measures at the Dawes House in Evanston, to the community tree program at the McCormick Museum, to big ideas and big impact from several other historic house museums, including Richard H. Driehaus Museum, and how they attracted new audiences while building communities of support. Roundtables (11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.) Advocacy in Action: Training Session Chair: IAM Governmental Relations Committee Do you need to get your museum more recognition from public policy makers (of course you do!) but the word “advocacy” sounds slimy to you? The IAM Governmental Relations Committee will offer easy ways that you can advocate for your museum. Pests at the Museum: When You Should Start Worrying Chair: Marty Germann, Owner, First Illinois Systems A pest control expert provides information about the types of bugs typically found in historic sites and museums in Illinois and what to do about them.