Professional Development & Workshops
This page lists professional development workshops being held around the state that may be of interest to museum professionals.
If you have a workshop you would like listed, please email Thanasis Kinias.
Workshops are listed as a courtesy and a service to museums and museum professionals. These listings in no way reflect CAMA's endorsement.
Arizona Commission on the Arts
JOINT ARTS EDUCATION CONFERENCE
July 29, 2010
Musical Instrument Museum
Join us at the Joint Arts Education Conference http://www.azarts.gov/swac/jaec/ on July 29th, 2010 where arts education leaders from across Arizona will gather to examine the current status of arts education in our state, using data from the 2009 Arts Education Census.
Presented by the Arizona Department of Education and the Arizona Commission on the Arts and hosted at the Musical Instrument Museum, this day-long event will help arts educators engage in data driven decision making as they look to create stronger, higher quality and sustainable programs in this era of tight budgets and limited resources.
A first look at this data with arts educators, administrators and colleagues will:
- Help you envision what future partnership will look like with district, charter, rural, urban schools from across the state – including technology-integrated arts programs, arts integration programs, and funding strategies to help move us forward.
- Allow you to connect with colleagues engaged in similar work across Arizona, and learn how to remain connected through online Professional Learning Communities following the conference.
- Give you data driven data that will inform fundraising efforts, marketing strategies and future programming.
You will engage with some of the leading thinkers and researchers in the field of arts education. Guest speakers include Bob Morrison, lead researcher for the Arizona Arts Education Census, Rob Davidson, VH-1 Save the Music Foundation, and Jonathan Katz, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.
We look forward to working with you as we work together to build a complete and quality education including the arts for Arizona’s students.
Early Bird registration ends June 20th, 2010! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to register at a discounted rate.
http://jaec.eventbrite.com/
Arizona Commission on the Arts
SOUTHWEST ARTS CONFERENCE
July 30, 2010
Chandler Center for the Arts
Looking for guidance with fundraising in the current economy? Wondering how to capitalize on your organization’s social media campaign? Need a little inspiration and time to reflect with colleagues? Register for the Southwest Arts Conference today! An early registration discount is available.
The 2010 Southwest Arts Conference is presented by the Arizona Commission on the Arts in association with Alliance for Audience and hosted by the Chandler Center for the Arts. SWAC is in its 33rd year of convening artists, arts administrators, arts advocates, and arts educators from across the state. Attend the one-and-a-half day convening for professional development, to grow your peer network and to be inspired by performers, guest speakers and other attendees. For complete conference information, please visit www.azarts.gov/swac.
SAVE THE DATE
PHOENIX is the Host Community for the
2010
VISITOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Conference!!
July 27- 31, 2010
Who is VSA?
Have you ever wondered how VISITORS view your institution?
Has anyone considered evaluation or studying visitors?
VSA is today’s premier professional organization focusing on all facets of the visitor
experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historical sites, parks
and other informal learning settings.
VSA is committed to understanding and enhancing visitor experiences in informal learning settings through research, evaluation, and dialogue.
Our common vision is for a world where lifelong learning is embraced, and where learning in
informal settings benefits individuals, communities, and society at large. Whether you call
them visitors, guests or audience members, the Visitor Studies Association is all about the
people you serve.
VSA welcomes anyone interested in understanding and making use of new knowledge about the visiting public.
What does this mean to you?
Centered at the Wyndham Phoenix Hotel in downtown Phoenix 150-200 museum colleagues from all over the world will arrive in Phoenix to network, collaborate, learn
and visit our metro area museums.
This is a great opportunity for our cultural and heritage institutions to show-off our community.
The Phoenix Local Host Committee (co-chaired by Anne Wallace, Nancy Cutler and JoAnn Stuckey) is
making arrangements at museums in the Phoenix metro area to include
two days of pre-conference workshops - about 14 of them - and three special showcase evening events. We have large shoes to fill from
prior conferences, but we are confident that our great museum community here will shine!
For perks there will be many opportunities for professional development learning about visitors and visitor studies, for volunteering (= attending some free workshops or sessions), and for networking with museum colleagues from North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia, all of whom are interested in the visitor experience in museums.
If anyone from your institution is interested in learning more or volunteering with this fun and energetic conference please contact one of the three chairs listed below.- Anne Wallace anne.wallace3@gte.net (623) 980-8383
- Nancy Cutler nancycutler@cox.net (602) 841-2634
- JoAnn Stuckey jasconsultant@juno.com (480) 488-7992
About VSA
VSA is today’s premier professional organization focusing on all facets of the visitor experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historical sites, parks and other informal learning settings.
Areas of visitor studies include…- Interpretation/educational programs
- Marketing and public relations
- Audience research
- Visitor orientation and circulation in unguided settings
- Exhibit and program design/evaluation
- Label and graphic design/evaluation
- Design and evaluation of interactive devices
- How people behave in public places
- Factors that facilitate visitor satisfaction and learning
What does the Visitor Studies Association do?
- Sponsors the annual Visitor Studies Conference
- Publishes and distributes Visitor Studies to members
- Provides ongoing development of professional networks among interpreters, educators, designers, and others who work with visitors in informal learning environments
- Sponsors professional development workshops
- Promotes visitor-related publications
- Disseminates information about current research and other news of interest to members through a bi-monthly E-Newsletter
To learn more about the VSA please visit their website at www.visitorstudies.org or contact us at info@visitorstudies.org
Museum Development Associates
and
Eastern New Mexico University
Announces
Small Museum Pro!
Distance Learning for Museum Training & Development
Santa Fe, New Mexico (August 12, 2009) - Museum Development Associates of Santa Fe has entered into a collaborative agreement to offer a professional certification program of five courses in museum skills and training, to be delivered through Eastern New Mexico University’s distance learning program.
The program, Small Museum Pro!, will lead to professional certification for workers in small and rural museums throughout the country, and will focus on practical museum training. The initial offering, beginning in August 2009, will include 20 students from some of the over 200 museums in New Mexico and the surrounding region. Courses, delivered only online, will cover Museum Administration, Collections Management, Collections Care, Exhibitions, and Museum Education and Outreach.
Each course will be offered through the Eastern New Mexico University Distance Education and Outreach Department. With the successful completion of each course, students will earn three Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Courses will cost $195 ($65 per CEU). To receive the Small Museum Pro! certification, participants will need to complete all five courses.
Most of New Mexico’s small museum staffers and directors enter the museum field after working in some other capacity, and many represent underserved populations. Although their museums often contain important artifacts of authentic material culture and history, many remain hidden due to inexperience and lack of museum skills knowledge. As a result, preservation and exhibition methods frequently do not reach the standard of care and management found in areas with less isolation and greater availability of funds. The partnership will also encourage young adults to enroll and enter the museum field.
Museum Development Associate’s Small Museum Pro! program is not a museum studies degree program; rather, it is designed to overcome the gaps in professional training commonly found among small, emerging and rural museum workers as well as to provide affordable, practical professional development and certification to those in remote geographic areas.
The following courses will be offered during the 2009 – 2010 academic year:
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2nd eight weeks:
Running and Managing a Small Museum
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Spring Semester 2010
1st eight weeks:
Managing and Organizing Museum Collections
2nd eight weeks:
Caring for Museum Collections -
Summer Semester 2010
Museum Education: Crafting Great Learning Experiences
Initial funding for this program was made possible with monies provided by the New Mexico State Legislature.
To find out more, click here
Contact:
M. Susan Barger, PhD - Director
Museum Development Associates
tel. 505.466.3480
museumdevelopment@earthlink.net
www.museumdevelopment.org
The University of Arizona
School of Information Resources and Library Sciences
Announces
Digital Information Mangement Certification Program
The University of Arizona Digital Information Management (DigIn) online graduate certificate program has been awarded a prestigious grant of over $900,000 from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, primarily to fund scholarships.
The DigIn curriculum combines intensive, hands-on technology learning with a thorough grounding in the theoretical principles needed to manage large and complex digital collections.
The program takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to managing digital information and is designed to support a wide range of career paths, especially involving libraries, museums, archives, and records management.
Graduate certificates are increasingly being recognized as a means for professionals with advanced degrees to update their knowledge and skills. DigIn also offers a path for those with undergraduate degrees who are interested in digital collections but who may not yet be ready to commit to a full degree program.
The grant will also greatly boost DigIn's mission to foster disciplinary, institutional, geographic, and cultural diversity in the management of digital collections and services.
Thus, DigIn strongly encourages scholarship applicants representing historically underserved institutions, regions, and communities, as well as students expressing interest in working with digital collections in culturally diverse settings.
DigIn is now accepting applications for admission and financial aid for the Fall 2009 semester. The application deadline has just been extended to July 10.
Late applications will be accepted, though Fall admission cannot be guaranteed once the July 10 deadline has passed. Late applicants will also be considered for admission in the Spring 2010 semester.
The program is delivered entirely online and does not require students to reside in or travel to Tucson. Students generally complete the certificate in 4-6 semesters (15-27 months).
DigIn was founded in 2007 with major funding from Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for the nation?s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.
Our current partners also include the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Sedona Conference.
Additional details on the program including course descriptions, admissions requirements and application forms may be found on the program website:
Prospective applicants are also welcome to contact the DigIn staff at: digin@email.arizona.edu
Click here to see the DigIn brochure.
