Give and Take: Shifting Collection Boundaries in the 21st-Century Museum

5/14/2012 10:45 AM - 12:00 AM

In the age of museum expansions and reinstallations, many institutions are rethinking traditional notions of collection boundaries. While divisions of culture continue to shape most curatorial purviews, parameters of chronology and medium are increasingly fluid, complicating older definitions of collection categorization as well as where objects—painting, sculpture, decorative art, photography, and works on paper—reside in terms of gallery space and curatorial responsibility. This topical session—moderated by Sylvia Yount, Chief Curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts—brings together leading scholars of both Western and non-Western art to discuss these issues in addition to cross-departmental collaborations in collection and exhibition development.

Panel Chair: Sylvia Yount, Chief Curator and Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Panelists:
Marla Berns, Director, UCLA Fowler Museum
Emily Ballew Neff, Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Matthew Witkovsky, Curator and Chair, Department of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago

Lunch sponsored by Sotheby's

5/14/2012 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Members' lunch sponsored by Sotheby's.  Lunch located in the Bravo restaurant located in the Linde Family Wing of the MFA, Boston

AAMC Pecha Kucha: First Annual Curatorial Slam

5/14/2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

For the first time, the AAMC will explore a "Pecha Kucha" format for a ninety-minute session that will seek to highlight upwards of nine short presentations (under seven minutes each) that are meant to allow curators a space to test out ideas in progress. For example, curators who wish to share their thoughts about a prospective exhibition, acquisition, conservation project, or innovative program should view the Curatorial Slam as an opportunity to present and receive feedback on an project while in its formative stages. The ultimate goal of this session will be to showcase the dynamic work of the membership at a pivotal moment in the curatorial process. To learn more about the "Pecha Kucha" format, click here.

AAMC Member presenters:

K. Michelle Arthur, Hartwick College/Yager Musem- "Discovery and Revelation: The Collection of Rev. Dr. Louis van Ess"

Martina Bagnoli, Walters Art Museum - "Crowdsourcing and the Art Museum"

Sarah Cash, Corcoran Gallery of Art - "Bierstadt's Last of the Buffalo"

Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum - "Zones of Contention"

Rita Freed, MFA, Boston - "A Different Approach to Collection Building: An Exchange of Antiquities between the MFA, Boston and the Poznan, Poland Archaeological Museum”

Christine Giviskos, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum - "The benefits and opportunities of maintaining the media-based organization of curatorial departments in the 21st-century museum"

Andrea Lipps, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum- "Design and Food"

Georgiana Uhlyarik, Art Gallery of Ontario- "Have We Come a Long Way, Baby? The Challenges of Aquiring Woman Artists"

Member Reception hosted by Art Dealers Association of America

5/14/2012 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Member Short Courses: Loan Negotiation & Exhibitions Management

5/15/2012 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Developed as a series of 40-minute mini-courses, these workshops will provide useful and practical information to enhance key administrative skills essential in the daily work of today's curators.

Featured presenters:

Exhibitions Management

Chiyo Isikawa, Deputy Director, Seattle Art Museum

Loan Negotiations

Mark Scala, Chief Curator, Frist Center for the Arts

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Laurie Winters, Director of Exhibitions, Senior Curator of European Art, Milwaukee Art Museum

Gardner Tapestries Conservation Tour and Talk *CONCURRENT SESSION*

5/15/2012 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Conservation Tour and Talk with Isabella Stewart Gardner Senior Objects Conservator Valentine Talland and Oliver Tostmann, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the ISGM. 

*Note: this session is concurrent with a Tour and Talk at the ICA with Helen Molesworth.  Members should only sign up for one of these sessions. 

Emergency Response: Case Studies in Museum Crisis Management *CONCURRENT*

5/15/2012 2:30 PM - 4:45 PM

***This session will occur at the Gardner Museum and is concurrent with the ICA/Boston session on Technology and Community Engagement.  Please register for only one of these sessions.***

Emergency Response: Case Studies in Museum Crisis Management

This panel will look at various forms of museum "crisis” from natural disaster to preventing a PR firestorm. 

Panel Chair: David Rubin, The Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art

Panelists:

Stephanie Barron, Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Kathleen Edwards, Chief Curator, University of Iowa

Michael Rush, Director, Broad Art Museum; former Director, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis

Jacqueline L. Sullivan, Former Deputy Director, New Orleans Museum of Art