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Career Management
So You Want to Serve on a Museum Board?
In my last article for AAM on welcoming the next generation of board leadership, I encouraged young people who were interested in board service to develop their leadership skills and create …
Conferencing While Introverted
Something that I hear a lot of first-time museum conference attendees say is that they’re worried about being an introvert in such a demanding, extroverted environment. So I thought, for my …
Reinventing Museum Careers
Museum workers tend to have a high sense of ethics, strong workplace values, and genuine pride in their organizations, relative to many other professions. But in recent times, the field has …
2019 Award Winner for Excellence in Practice: David Rios
According to his nominator, David Rios, Director of Public Programs and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM), “excels in building experiences and …
The Business of Being an Independent Museum Professional
Learn about the business of being an independent museum professional from two experts in this recorde…
#AAM2019 Keynote: Kippen de Alba Chu and Kimberly Drew
< Disclaimer: This video is unedited and contains several “unbeeped” profanities. Transcript Kippen de Alba Chu: Good morning, everyone. Yeah, this morning’s script was …
A Fellowship Helps One Emerging Professional Find Her Footing
Art has been a part of my life since very early on. When I was around four, my mother began working at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and I spent many hours after school and on weekends …
Making Professional Development Work for Small Museums
“We had been talking about going to different conferences for years, usually in a joking, musing way, so it is awesome to be able to do it.” When I asked my colleague Mark Riccetti, our …
Museums as a Pink Collar Profession
This week, my colleagues at GEMM (the Gender Equity in Museums Movement) published their second white paper, Museums as a Pink Collar Profession. GEMM’s paper poses some complex questions …