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It’s Nothing Personal The Power of Building Relationships beyond the Transactional

Transactional thinking runs deep in the nonprofit sector and negatively impacts the value we provide and receive from constituents. Learn how the Toledo Zoo replaced transactional thinking …

My High School Is in a Museum

Followers of this blog will know I am a huge fan of museum schools. TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure, the most recent CFM report, devotes one chapter to exploring how …

ENACTing New Voices

The Ohio History Connection is linking emerging new American leaders with community resources, networks, and civic education to empower their c…

Enriching Connections

The Robert F. Smith Center for the Digitization and Curation of African American History is uncovering family stories and capturing community…

Community and collaboration at the High Museum of Art

Randall Suffolk has been the director of the High Museum of Art since 2015. Previously, he served as director of Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and as director of The Hyde …

Measuring Up

A new national study is quantifying the social impact of …

Point of View: The Relational Museum

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2022 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Museums have potential as placemakers to support and strengthen their …

From the President and CEO: Museums Matter

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2022 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. We just concluded one of my favorite events of the year—Museums Advocacy Day! …

The Greatest Work of Art

The community is always the focus of San Angelo Museum of…

Looking Back to Move Forward: Examining Institutional Racism in Reprising “Afro-American Images 1971”

In February 1971, a newly formed Delaware organization, Aesthetic Dynamics Inc., presented its first major undertaking: an exhibition of over 130 works of art—drawings, prints, photographs, …
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