Registration Fee (including lunch): $45 NEMA members / $55 non-members
Registration Fee (bring your own lunch): $35 NEMA members / $45 non-members
All staff from member museums are eligible for the member rate.
Not sure if your museum is a member? Just call NEMA, 781-641-0013, to find out.
Registration Fee (bring your own lunch): $35 NEMA members / $45 non-members
All staff from member museums are eligible for the member rate.
Not sure if your museum is a member? Just call NEMA, 781-641-0013, to find out.
College and university museums/galleries are in a unique position as part of a larger “parent” institution that provides their primary audience and, often, their funding. While the focus of the parent institution is educational, often there are more specific guidelines to its mission within which museum directors and curators are asked to develop their programming. Learn from four director/curators about their unique situations, the challenges they face and some of the solutions they’ve found.
9:30 am Welcome
10:00 am Lesson Learned: Four Case Studies
An Audience of Experts: Curating for an Artist Community
Shana Dumont, Assistant Director/Assistant Curator, Montserrat College of Art Gallery
Bridging Sacred and Profane: Art and the Evangelical College
Bruce Herman, Director/Curator, Barrington Arts Center, Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Art for Business Majors: Lowering the Threshold Without Lowering the Bar
Danielle Krcmar, Artist-in-Residence/ Curator, Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA
Balancing Art and Audience: The University Art Gallery as a Marketing Tool
Deborah Disston, Director/Curator, McInich Art Gallery, University of Southern New Hampshire, Manchester, NH
12:00 pm Lunch on the Beach
Weather permitting, tables will be set up on a grassy lawn for informal roundtable discussions with a beautiful ocean view.
1:30 pm Increasing Cultural Participation
Eric D’Alessandro, Program Coordinator, Massachusetts Cultural Council
Learn to design programming that is anchored by a customer-centered decisionmaking model that helps identify potential audience members’ level of inclination and potential barriers to participation in cultural programs and activities. Take away a planning framework to build target audiences based on where you are in their decision-making process, thus creating more effective programs/procedures for increasing cultural participation.