2004 Annual Conference
Building Networks - Sharing Resources: models for innovation.
Saturday May 8, 2004
Hosted by
The Newcomb Art Gallery
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Conference Agenda
8:00 a.m.
Get on Bus at Convention Center Hall H loading ar
8:15 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast at the Newcomb Art Gallery
8:45 am
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 am
"From Collaboration to Convergence: Building Value for Communities of Learners"
Robert Martin - Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services
9:40 am
"Unicorn at the Table: Collaboration as Learning."
Kristine Morrissey - Chair, Museum Studies, Michigan State University
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
"E-collaboration: Building Communities without Walls."
Angela Spinazzè - Consultant and Independent Researcher, ATSPIN Consulting, Chicago, IL
11:20 am
"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 pm
Lunch by "Tasteful Events"
Session 1
1:15 pm
"Ramesses I - Collaborating on the Search for the Lost Pharaoh."
Bonnie Speed - Director, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
2:00 pm
"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 pm
"Alice's Wonderland: A Museum-University Research Collaboration."
Jenni Martin - Director of Education, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
Session 2
1:15 pm
"Why Travel an Exhibit? - Thoughts on the Benefits (and Challenges)."
Dan Mills - Director, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University
2:00 pm
"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 pm
"A Case for Being "AWAKE": Buddhism, Collaboration, & Museum Practice."
Marla Berns - Director, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
"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 pm
Reception at the Newcomb Art Gallery
6:00 pm
Buses return to the Convention Center - Farewell 'till next year!
