"Building Networks - Sharing Resources:
models for innovation."

Saturday, May 8th

Hosted by
The Newcomb Art Gallery
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA


Click Here to download the Conference Brochure and Registration Form.


      PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

8:00 a.m. — Get on Bus at Convention Center Hall H loading area

8:15 a.m. — Registration and Continental Breakfast at the Newcomb Art Gallery

8:45 a.m. — Welcoming presentations
                   Lisa Hanover President, ACUMG
                   Scott Cowen President, Tulane University
                   Erik Neil Director, The Newcomb Art Gallery
                   Stefan Sommer Vice President, ACUMG

9:00 a.m. — "From Collaboration to Convergence: Building Value for Communities of Learners"
                    Robert Martin - Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services

9:40 a.m. — "Unicorn at the Table: Collaboration as Learning."
                    Kristine Morrissey - Chair, Museum Studies, Michigan State University

10:20 a.m. — Break

10:40 a.m. — "E-collaboration: Building Communities without Walls."
                     Angela Spinazzè - Consultant and Independent Researcher, ATSPIN Consulting, Chicago, IL

11:20 a.m. — "Community Curation: Objects to Flavor a Sense of Place."
                      Wanda Chin - Director of Exhibition and Design,
                      University of Alaska Museum and President, Western Museums Association
                    

12:00 p.m. — Lunch by "Tasteful Events"


Session I

1:15 p.m. — "Ramesses I - Collaborating on the Search for the Lost Pharaoh."
                     Bonnie Speed - Director, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

2:00 p.m. — "The University as MICROCOSM: the material economy of knowledge."
                    Mark Meadow - Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UC Santa Barbara and
                    Research Fellow, Getty Research Institute
                   

2:45 p.m. — "Alice's Wonderland: A Museum-University Research Collaboration."
                    Jenni Martin - Director of Education, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose



Session II

1:15 p.m. — "Why Travel an Exhibit? - Thoughts on the Benefits (and Challenges)."
                    Dan Mills - Director, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University

2:00 p.m. — "On the Road Again: Developing & Managing Traveling Exhibitions"
                    "Seven Secrets to Successful Exhibition Sharing."
                     Jean Allman Gilmore - Registrar, Brandywine Museum and co-author,
                     "On the Road Again: Developing & Managing Traveling Exhibitions"

2:45 p.m. — "A Case for Being "AWAKE": Buddhism, Collaboration, & Museum Practice."
                    Marla Berns - Director, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

3:30 p.m. — Break

3:45 p.m. — "Working Together to Get Ahead" - a Panel and Community Discussion:
                    Jean Allman Gilmore, Marla Berns, Wanda Chin,
                    Jenni Martin, Robert Martin, Dan Mills, Kristine Morrissey,
                    Bruce Robertson, Bonnie Speed, and Angela Spinazzè.

4:30 p.m. — Reception at the Newcomb Art Gallery

6:00 p.m. — Buses return to the Convention Center - Farewell 'till next year!