Gretchen Jennings delivered the keynote address for the opening of the Association of Art Museum Curators annual conference in Brooklyn, NY on May 1, 2022. Her topic was The Empathetic Museum: Empathy as Action.

Matt Kirchman is kicking off some exciting projects during the month of June. His firm, ObjectIDEA has been hired to develop a visitor engagement plan for the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama and (a bit closer to home) an interpretive master plan for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Immediately following the AAM Annual Meeting in Boston, Matt enjoyed a research and development trip to Bend, Oregon to develop a new visitor center for the South Slough National Estuary Research Reserve. Stay tuned for updates and a website launch for his Environmental Literacy and Museums project (ELM) with the North American Association for Environmental Education.