2016 – Page 9 – American Alliance of Museums

Send Me to SxSW to Spread the Word about Museum Awesomeness

By Elizabeth Merritt

I need your help to create a future in which encounters like this don’t happen: At a convening of all sorts of important education types—foundation staff, teachers, policy makers—one of the participants turns to the chair of EdCom and …
Monday Musing: unbiased wages

By Elizabeth Merritt

A few weeks ago I tweeted about a post by the estimable Vu Le in which he argued that “basing pay on salary history is a harmful, borderline-unethical practice that we need to abolish.” He points out that calibrating salary …
Introducing Alliance Labs

By Robert Stein

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On Diversity and Inclusion

By Brooke Leonard

I must admit: writing this blog post about AAM’s work in diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion is humbling. In spite of the fact that I grew up in an African American-majority community, attended a majority-minority high school …
Girls Design the World

By Megan Lantz

How can teens play a role in solving some of the most urgent environmental issues of our time? That is one of the questions 42 girls from Minneapolis, Minnesota and Nairobi, Kenya considered through Girls Design the World, an international …
Futurist Friday: Who Will You Care For? Who Will Care For You?

By Elizabeth Merritt

Many of my friends are members of the “sandwich generation”–caring both for children and for their own parents. That’s difficult enough right now, and as a new report from the Institute for the Future (IFTF) points …
The Community Futures Lab: Oral Histories, Oral Futures, and Quantum Time

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is Nicole with a bit of field reporting about futurist work in practice. Last week, I traveled to Philadelphia, PA to visit the Community Futures Lab, a project of the Black Quantum Futurism collective. Co-founder Rasheedah Phillips …
Museum People are the Best!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Dan and Marieke at the Renwick Galleryin Washington, DC One of my favorite museum podcasts—Museum People—just launched its second season with an episode profiling AAM’s own Laura Lott. In this series, produced by the New England …
Association of Art Museum Curators Joins Forces With Other Museum Groups

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 1, 2016 Arlington, VA – The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) has become a member of the Council of Affiliates of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the 27th organization to join the influential …
Monday Musing: the future of philanthropy

By Elizabeth Merritt

I included an essay by David Callahan in last week’s edition of Dispatches from the Future of Museums because I was struck by his projections of how government budget cuts may promote the rise of “crisis …