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Regional Museums Making Difficult Decisions and Expanding Horizons

Laura Roberts will moderate the virtual panel Regional Museums Making Difficult Decisions and Expanding Horizons:

Thursday, March 18

4:15-5:30pm

The session is part of the virtual 2-day symposium Deaccessioning After 2020 organized by Syracuse University that aims to comprehensively address collections and deaccessioning in the context of the economic fallout of the pandemic and the national call to rethink the role and responsibilities of museums and their collections in an increasingly diverse and complex world.

Panelists in the Regional Museums session are:

Jessica Arb Danial, Board President, Everson Museum of Art
Elizabeth Dunbar, Executive Director, Everson Museum of Art
Elizabeth McGraw, Former Board President, Berkshire Museum
Van Shield, Former Executive Director, Berkshire Museum

Positive Turbulence!

The Association for Managers of Innovation released a 46-minute Positive Turbulence podcast episode featuring Marsha Semmel as a Turbulator! The conversation centered around her book Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World (American Alliance of Museums), but also discussed other issues of interest to museums.

What We're Reading and Watching

Melanie Adams, PhD, and Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, “Point of View: Movements, Moments, and Museums,” American Alliance of Museums, January 1, 2021., Accessed March 13, 2021.

Valentina Di Liscia, “Indianapolis Museum of Art President Resigns After Facing Backlash for Offensive Job Posting,” Hyperallergic, February 17, 2021. Accessed March 13, 2021.

Valentina Di Liscia, “Leaked Recording of Confidential Meeting at Detroit Institute Details Allegations of Toxic Workplace,” Hyperallergic, March 12, 2021. Accessed March 14, 2021.

Exhibit developer Kathy McLean talks about how museums can find their “next practice” in this Museum FAQ with TMGer Paul Orselli, February 5, 2021. Accessed March 14, 2021.

Salamishah Tillet, “How the Studio Museum in Harlem Transformed the Art World Forever,” Harper’s Bazaar, February 26, 2021. Accessed March 13, 2021.

Emily Watlington, “Cripping Choreography,” artnews, March 9, 2021. Accessed March 14, 2021. Many TMGers experienced a performance by Kinetic Light during our Fall 2019 meeting in the Berkshires. Stunning, gravity-defying, liberating, and spell-binding are just a few of the adjectives that came to mind as we watched Wired, an intricate interplay between wheelchair-bound dancers moving through the air and their earthbound counterpart.