Call for Papers
AAM is pleased to invite submissions to the 3rd Brooking Paper on Creativity in Museums.
This annual writing competition aims to reinforce awareness of creative, innovative accomplishments that produce new ways of thinking and seeing within the museum field.
Description: Papers should be approximately 2,500 words and can describe examples of creativity, innovation, and imagination in any aspect of museum operations—education, collections, finance, exhibitions, community relations, staff structure, leadership, and everything in between. Previously published pieces will not be accepted.
Who can enter: Museum professionals and volunteers inside and outside the United States.
Deadline: Submissions will be accepted through Nov. 30, 2006.
Judging criteria: AAM staff will screen papers, and three judges will receive copies of the most promising papers for review in December and January. Papers will be judged on content, writing skill, and clarity of presentation. A final decision on the winner will be made by the judges no later than March 31.
Prizes: The first-prize paper will be published in the May/June 2006 Museum News and a $1,000 prize awarded to the author. Two honorable mentions also will be awarded. All three winning papers will be available online at www.aam-us.org beginning in May 2006.
How to enter: E-mail papers to jstrand@aam-us.org with “Brooking Paper” in the subject line.
About the competition: Funding for the competition comes from Dolores Brooking, professor of arts administration at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Brooking was director of education at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. During her tenure at the museum, she developed innovative and experimental programs in education. From 1977 through 1979, she developed and implemented a two-year interdisciplinary project for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that merged the arts and humanities.
Brooking also designed an interdisciplinary art, architecture, historic preservation, and environmental project, “Space: Inside/Outside,” which was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for excellence in increasing understanding of design in the public sector. She has published a number of articles and papers.
