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AAM’s New Code of Conduct Inspires Conversation About Gender
Each year, the Alliance recruits 10-12 people to be Social Media Journalists – to tweet and share conference happenings for those who don’t attend or just want to follow along with …
Keynote Speakers Donovan Livingston & Frank Waln
Award-winning educator Donovan Livingston and Sicangu Lakota hip hop artist Frank Waln explore what a decolonized system of education would look like and how museums can p…
Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum
The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts to support a cohort of 15 to 17 museums in a program to create instructional arts workshop series for older adults. …
With Liberty and Justice for All!
One hundred and thirty-three years after the Statue of Liberty first arrived in New York harbor, to the day, my husband and I took our daughter to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island on …
The Reinforcement Crew: Colleagues Helping Colleagues
Each year since 2007 museum collections professionals from around the nation have donated their time and expertise to help other institutions in need. This wonderful program improves the …
Keynote Speaker Ericka Huggins
Get inspired by keynote speaker Ericka Huggins -- educator, Black Panther Party member, and former politica…
What Small Museums Need (& Don’t)
Over the course of 2016, ten small museums participated in an AAM pilot project called the Small Museum Accreditation Academy. The Academy, which was developed through a grant from the …
Facing Change: A New Report from the American Alliance of Museums’ Working Group on DEAI
As director of inclusion at AAM, I help shape the Alliance’s strategic direction in our diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) focus area. I am responsible for leading our …
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Seeding Vitality Arts with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
This is the third in a series of posts publicizing Aroha Philanthropy’s call for proposals for Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums, funding the development and implementation of high quality, …
Finding Ways to Respect the Past (But not the way you think)
How many of us have found ourselves the new person on a museum staff? We join a program or department in a historic site, museum, garden or zoo. We're new. Everyone else isn't. In contrast …
Pinning Art: The Data and Stories behind Pinterest Traffic to the Online Collection
Two members of the Museum's Digital Department take a deep dive into user behavior for visitors who engage with The Met's online collection through…
How Artists Fight Vision Loss and Continue to Make New Work
Like O'Keeffe, many artists who eventually have only peripheral sight are pushed to explore new mediums. The tireless painter Hedda Sterne, diagnosed with AMD at the age of 83, discovered …
Can Artists Do Anything to Prevent Climate Change? Miami Beach Has Recruited One to Find Out
Can an artist help tackle one of the biggest problems facing mankind? Miami Beach certainly thinks so. One of the most vulnerable cities in the United States to the effects of climate …
Are Fabricators the Most Important People in the Art World?
As contemporary artists become increasingly less present in their own work, the people who make their pieces remain unsung heroes. THE IMAGE OF the artist feverishly working alone as first …
Museums too: what should institutions do when artists are accused of abuse?
Shortly after the publication last October of two exposés detailing decades of sexual abuse and assault by the US film producer Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement hit the art world. As …
Therapeutic Connection: A Funder Explores How the Arts Can Address Mental Health Issues
Recent developments in the arts philanthropy space suggest that donors are increasingly viewing the arts experience as a means to an end. To the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and collector …
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Featured Professional Network: Environment and Climate Network
The Environment and Climate Network (formerly PIC Green Museum Network) is a collaborative and pro-active community working to establish museums as leaders in environmental stewardship and sustainability, and climate action. During the …
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Spotlight: Three Must-Reads on Environment and Climate
The world is changing and if we don't keep up, there won't be a world to change with. Here are three articles that share new ideas and models that will help your museum becoming more environmentally sustainable.