Annual Meeting

On Stories, and Authenticity

By Elizabeth Merritt

I just got my copy of the new book Significant Objects documenting a fascinating project exploring the relationship between objects, stories and value. Synopsis: Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker collected inexpensive, tag-sale objects (e.g., a …
Crowdsourcing the AAM Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

Ever wish you had a voice in running the AAM’s annual meeting? Now you do. AAM has opened up the session proposal process to crowdsourced input. You can use the new site to submit a draft session proposal for input from your peers, and to …
Psyched about Storytelling

By Elizabeth Merritt

AAM just announced the theme for our 2013 annual meeting in Baltimore, and it is (drumroll, please): Storytelling This is such a great theme, for many reasons. While people who work in, and with, museums can’t seem to agree on how to …
Integrating Collaboration and Technology to Create a Crowdsourced Experience

By Elizabeth Merritt

I attended the Media & Technology Committee’s MUSE awards ceremony at the AAM annual meeting in Minneapolis Saint Paul a few weeks ago. The award-winning projects illustrate a number of the cultural and technological trends CFM is …
Illustrations of the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

The AAM annual meeting is often a little bit overwhelming. And exhausting. OK, it is always a bit overwhelming & exhausting. That being so, I was particularly pleased with this year’s CFM guest artists project. As I wrotebefore the …
Drawing a Picture of the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Stories of the future are all very well, but sometimes illustrations are better. Which is why I’m inviting you to join the Drawing Club at the AAM annual meeting Minneapolis, week after next. Catalyzed by local artists recruited by the …
Digesting the Future of Museum Ethics

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m suffering from a bad case of “be careful what you wish for.” The Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics project that CFM has been running with the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University yielded such a huge number of …
Your Guide to the Future at the Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

At the AAM annual meeting next month, I’ll be spending much of my time at the AAM Showcase in MuseumExpo™, hanging out with the Drawing Club—our 2012 Artists Interpreting the Future of Museums. I hope you visit the Showcase and take up a …
FLUX | AAM – CFM

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week, guest blogger Peter Kimelman, founding director of the FLUX Foundation, previews his group’s participatory art project at the upcoming AAM annual meeting. One of PK’s recent projects was conducting research on wine and design …
Drawn Together: Drawing Club convenes at AAM Annual Meeting

By Elizabeth Merritt

Scott Stulen is the project director for mnartists.org, one of the programmers of the Walker Open Field Program, creators of Drawing Club and a visual artist. Here he gives us a sneak peek of something to look forward to at the AAM Annual …