Thursday, Nov. 5
Sessions at Downtown Museums and Hotel Santa Fe
General Session
9:00-10:30 a.m.
New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 West Palace Avenue
Welcome by Laurie Rufe, NMAM President, and Sabrina Pratt, Director, Santa Fe Arts Commission. Keynote Address by Kirk Ellis, award-winning, Santa Fe-based writer/producer.
Keynote Speaker: Kirk Ellis
Award-winning, Santa Fe-based writer/producer Kirk Ellis is best know for his work on the HBO miniseries, John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, for which he won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, a Writers Guild of America Award and the Humanitas Prize. Ellis wrote and co-executive produced the seven-part HBO miniseries, which is based on David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Ellis will continue his association with McCullough and the American Revolution on his next project for HBO, 1776. For the big screen, Ellis is working on the feature project Blood and Thunder, an epic drama of Kit Carson and the Navajo Wars, and Escape, the true story of Carolyn Jessop, who escaped from a plural marriage in a fundamentalist Mormon compound under the leadership of Warren Jeffs.
At the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema and Television, Ellis became the first undergraduate to achieve degrees in both film production and history/criticism. He began his professional career as a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter and in 1985, at the age of 24, was named the trade paper’s international editor—the youngest journalist to ever serve in the post. In 1992 he was named Editor-in-Chief of the London based European trade magazine, Moving Pictures, and simultaneously formed Shadow Catcher Productions, an independent production banner under which Ellis develops his own features and documentaries.
Break and Opening of Silent Auction
10:45-11:15 a.m.
Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta
Concurrent Museum Tours: 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Free, limited to 16 participants
How the West is One (In One Hour or Less)
New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue
How the West is One is the reinstallation of the New Mexico Museum of Art collection, and includes Native American, Hispanic and European American art from 1880 to the present. The exhibition emphasizes the aesthetic fusions that have occurred across cultural divides. How the West is One also rethinks the conventional terminology used to describe the art and art groups of New Mexico. The exhibition’s curator will lead this tour through 125 years of New Mexico art. Please sign up on the registration form.
Joseph Traugott, Ph.D., Curator of Twentieth Century Art, New Mexico Museum of Art (chair).
The New Behind the Scenes at the New Mexico History Museum
New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Avenue
After years of planning, the History Collections of the NMHM/POG were moved into a new storage area in the spring of 2009. Presenters will offer a tour of the new area and collections, show the state-of-the-art storage units, discuss use of the space, and address how the collections move was planned and how it was actually accomplished. They will also talk about opening a new museum from the perspective of moving and installing artifacts. Please sign up on the registration form.
Wanda Edwards, Collection Manager, New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors (chair); and Patrick Cruz, NEH Project Manager, New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors.
Concurrent Sessions: 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Hotel Santa Fe
Bringing Life to the Gallery; Strategies for Engaging Visitors
Discover simple and effective techniques that enliven visitors’ experiences in your galleries. Presenters will outline strategies that can be implemented in museums across disciplines and of all sizes. Topics will include facilitated experiences, self-guided materials, museum theater and programmatic approaches all aimed at creating meaningful and memorable moments for visitors in museum galleries.
Beth Maloney, Principle, BethMaloney.com (chair); Selena Connealy, Museum Consultant; and Laurie Magovern, Curator of Education, Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum.
Blogging and Facebook and Flickr, Oh My! Engaging Audiences (and Keeping them Engaged) in the Age of the Social Web
The Internet has forever changed the way museums connect with their audiences and keep those audiences engaged in the activities—and mission—of the institution. From email to blogs to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, museum marketing strategies have seen dramatic changes over the past few years. Which of these—if any—have proven successful to New Mexico’s museums? In this round-table panel discussion, we’ll discuss some of the techniques that we’ve tried, explore what other museums are doing, and speculate about what the future holds as the Web becomes increasingly social. Using real-world approaches, panelists will offer no concrete answers about “what works” but rather muse on the state of things and of things to come.
Doug Patinka, Web Site Manager, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (chair); Steve Cantrell, Public Relations Manager, Museum of New Mexico; Laura Lovejoy-May, Special Events Manager, Museum of International Folk Art; and Ann Scheflen, Director of Membership & Marketing, Museum of New Mexico Foundation.
Annual Meeting and Luncheon
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Hotel Santa Fe, Patio
Business meeting and lunch.
This event is included in the registration fee.
Concurrent Sessions: 2:00-3:15 p.m.
Hotel Santa Fe
Engaging Hispanos/Latinos in New Mexico’s Museums
Concerns about Latino representation and participation in museums will be addressed in this round-table discussion about a first-voice museum. National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum staff and volunteers, Hispano artists, and Latina scholars will discuss initiatives recently begun to increase community involvement in exhibitions and increased museological training for Nuevomexicanos.
Gina Díaz, M.A, Curator, NHCC (chair); Tey Marianna Nunn, Ph.D., Visual Arts Director, NHCC; Micaela Seidel, M.F.A., Assistant Curator, NHCC; Maria Otero, UNM Graduate Student & Art Museum Fellow, NHCC; Theresa Avila, Ph.D. Candidate, UNM & NHCC Research Assistant; Sonja Gandert, Former Art Museum Intern; Luz Guillén, Art Museum Intern, NHCC; and artist participants from recent Community Art Gallery Exhibitions.
Enhancing the Visitor Experience with Video
Exhibition video is no longer limited to a dedicated theater. New, more affordable technologies now allow museums to integrate contextual video into every part of the exhibit space and beyond. This session will cover some of the available technologies, including ways to deliver high-definition video and slideshows to huge LCD screens, projectors, touch screen kiosks, mobile devices, and even YouTube. The presentation will also include selected case studies.
David Rohr, Creative Director, Museum Resources Division, DCA (chair).
Round-table Discussions: 2:00-3:15 p.m.
A new session format with opportunities for informal discussions and networking.
The New Deal in Your Village and the New Mexico Centennial
An opportunity to develop 2012 plans for partnering with other New Deal venues for celebrating New Mexico’s Centennial in New Mexico communities
Kathryn Flynn, National New Deal Preservation Association (chair); Lynne Dominy, National Park Service, Bandelier; and Joe McKinney, retired University of New Mexico architect, planner.
Hot Topics
Find out what’s on the mind of other museum professionals and learn how they are rising to the challenges of the day. Art will choose topics based on his experience as a senior museum consultant and ideas generated by you!
Art Wolf, Principal, WOLF Consulting (chair).
Break
3:15-3:30 p.m.
Hotel Santa Fe
Concurrent Sessions: 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Hotel Santa Fe
Hearing Our Voices: Seeing Our History, Living Today
In this session, Indian tribal communities will discuss, through presentation and round-table, what they have been doing to deepen understandings of their traditional and contemporary cultures through cultural centers and museums. This will include discussions of cultural heritage as evidenced in art, history, and oral traditions today in museums, cultural centers, and casinos, and plans for future installations. Tribal groups that will be represented include Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo.
Ellen K. Moore, Ph.D., Curator of Education, Roswell Museum and Art Center (co-chair); Joseph Sanchez, Curator, IAIA (co-chair); Clarenda Begay, Curator, Navajo Nation Museum; Bob Haozous, artist; George Rivera, Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino.
Museum Collections Online: Paths and Perspectives on Sharing Our Stuff
As individuals increasingly turn to the Internet as a primary source of information, cultural institutions have been exploring different ways of making their collections accessible online. In this session, representatives of three New Mexico museums will discuss the different approaches they have taken in making digitized collections accessible over the Internet. Highlighting obstacles overcome as well as end results, they’ll discuss the process they undertook in putting their collections online and the choices they made along the way.
Doug Patinka, Web Site Manager, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (chair); Catherine Baudoin, Curator of Photo Archives, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology; Daniel Goodman, Registrar, New Mexico Museum of Art; and Daniel Kosharek, Photo Archivist, Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum.
Round-table Discussions: 3:30-4:45 p.m.
A new session format with opportunities for informal discussions and networking.
Cosmic Serpent in NM: Museums Bridging Knowledge Traditions
Cosmic Serpent is an NSF-funded informal science education initiative to build bridges between two knowledge traditions with extensive heritage in New Mexico: indigenous knowledge and the western scientific method. Presenters will include a project principal investigator to discuss the genesis of the program and its roll-out to NM museums.
Linda Deck, Director, Bradbury Science Museum (chair); and Dr. Nancy Maryboy, Project Pl, Indigenous Education Institute.
Interactivity and Education
Presenters will discuss effective hands-on educational programs, focusing especially on the Las Vegas Alive! role-playing game being developed at the City of Las Vegas Museum.
Nellie Price, Educator, City of Las Vegas Museum (chair); and Laura Gonzales, Humanities Consultant, City of Las Vegas Museum.
Evening at the Governor’s Mansion
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Governor’s Mansion, Mansion Drive
Visit the first family’s residence and take a peek at artwork rarely seen by the public. Enjoy wine and hearty hors d’oeurvres. This event is included in the registration fee. Shuttle available from Hotel Santa Fe.
Annual Meeting
