At the annual New England Museum Association Conference this November, Laura Roberts will be honored with the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award. With this award, NEMA honors individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the museum field over the course of a distinguished career. Their Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a professional’s commitment to excellence, leadership in the field, service to others, and support of NEMA. Congratulations, Laura!

Matt Kirchman has been awarded a CEE Change Fellowship by The North American Association for Environmental Education to engage the museum field in transforming the way museums approach environmental education. The fellowship program brings together a diverse and inspiring cadre of formal and non-formal educators and community leaders working to address today's complex environmental and social concerns at the local, state, and national levels. Matt’s 18-month project centers on the ability and responsibility that museums have in fostering environmental literacy in museum audiences.

Kelsey Ables. “In an Age of Worsening Fires and Floods Museum are Reinventing Themselves – and Their Mechanical Rooms.” The Washington Post. August 11, 2021.

Joan Baldwin. “On Labor Day: Taking the Museum World’s Work Temperature.” Leadership Matters. September 6, 2021.

             

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative is an energy and climate granting program launched by Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in partnership with RMI and Environment and Culture Partners. It is the first program of its kind in the U.S. for the visual arts and is the largest private national grant-making program to address climate change through cultural institutions.

Elizabeth Hamilton. “Chronic Illness Cost this Former Dallas Museum Director her Career. Embracing Novelty Gave Her New Life.” Texas Monthly. July 29, 2021. This story chronicles Bonnie Pitman’s daily search for joy amid a debilitating illness that ended her museum career.

The Happy Museum Project supports museum practice that places wellbeing within an environmental and future-facing frame, rethinking the role that museums can play in creating more resilient people, places and planet.

Dana Kopel. “Against Artsploitation: Unionizing the New Museum.” The Baffler. September 2021.