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 the following address with your request to Mitch Menchaca .

Workshops are listed as a courtesy and a service to museums and museum professionals. These listings in no way reflect CAMA's endorsement.

Arizona Humanities Council

Programs and Grants Workshop

You are invited to attend the upcoming AHC Programs and Grants Workshop
on Friday, July 18th, from 10 AM to 12 PM!

This summer’s workshop, which is free of charge, will take place at the AHC office
in the Ellis-Shackelford House, 1242 North Central Avenue, in downtown Phoenix.

The workshop is open to anyone interested in learning more about AHC, its
available resources, or how to write a competitive grant proposal. The workshop
will also orient new project directors to our funding process and requirements and
give them the opportunity to meet other funding recipients.

Small Museum Association

2009 Annual Conference

Ocean City, NJ

Call for Papers

The Small Museum Association (SMA) is planning its 25th Annual Conference in Ocean City, Maryland, February 22–24, 2009. Every year, this conference brings together more than 250 museum professionals from a wide range of institutions, primarily from the Mid-Atlantic region—although our member and attendee base has been steadily expanding. The conference aims to improve professionalism within the community of small museums by providing a unique and comfortable environment for individuals and institutions with diverse experiences to meet and learn from each other. Conference sessions typically provide practical, relevant discussions, and examples for small museums and institutions with limited budgets.

This year, the theme of the Annual Conference will be a celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Small Museum Association. As we honor 25 years of small museums working together throughout the conference, sessions will continue to focus on the use of technology in a small museum setting. Sessions will be arranged in five broad areas, including marketing/development, curatorial, education, museum boards, and volunteers so attendees can concentrate on the area that most suits the needs of their own work and that of their museum. New technologies, particularly those introduced over the last quarter century have changed the way many museums operate. Technology, however your museum is currently using it, can open up a great many opportunities, from improving the efficiency of your gift shop to updating your collections records to managing the business that is your museum. The SMA wants to provide those associated with small museums (volunteers, board members, interns, or staff) with the tools needed to use technology to make their institutions even better and more relevant than they already are.

We invite proposals for sessions based on original research. Proposal topics should in some way touch on the use of technology in all facets of museum work, but especially in the five broad categories mentioned above (marketing/development, curatorial, education, museum boards, and volunteers). Possible session topics include:

There will be sessions all day on Monday, February 23, and on the morning of Tuesday, February 24, 2009.

Individuals from the museum/historic preservation field and related supporting communities who would like to present at this dynamic and friendly conference are invited to submit proposals to the address below by July 15, 2008; you will be notified by August 29, 2008.