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It’s Time to Sell the “Sizzle”!

By Amber Geary

My journey into the museum field was a winding road. Graphic design led to marketing and branding. I later transitioned to art education and learned the slings, arrows, and overwhelming payoff of the public school sector. My current …
Undoing Adultism in Museum Spaces

By Emily Turner

Adultism is “the everyday, systematic, and institutionalized oppression that young people face at the hands of adults” (Kivel). Denial of political power. Lack of privacy. Physical and emotional abuse. Arbitrary punishments. Rules they did …
Every child is an artist

By Derrick Cameron

“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist” — Pablo Picasso According to a study by the College Board in 2012, required arts instruction in K-12 schools often comes to an end in middle school – the exact moment when …
Tips for Museum Educators to become Exhibition Design Facilitators

By Karen Malone

As a museum educator, do you ever feel forgotten? Feel as though your expertise was relegated to the tail-end of exhibition planning? Do you wish museum education played a larger leadership role at your institution? In this blog post, I …
Native Eyes: Honoring the Power of Museum and Community Partnership

By By Multiple Authors

Excerpted from Vol. 3, “Intersections: Folklore and Museum Education,” Journal of Folklore and Education Museums can be a catalyst for communities to come together to design something authentic. When museums acknowledge the expertise of …
Selling When We Should Be Investing

By Thomas Leischner

When I was a classroom teacher, I assumed that a field trip would never be worth it: not worth the money my school didn’t have, nor the time I didn’t have, nor the learning my students would lose by missing a day of school. This imagined …
Electing to value education within museums

By Sage Morgan Hubbard

I am not going to lie. Like many of us, I am suffering from election anxiety today. As a parent and educator, I see the glaring gaps in our fractured educational system and become frustrated and pessimistic. At the same time, one of the …
The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences

By American Alliance of Museums

Delivered March 22, 2016, at the Building Arts Audiences: The Philadelphia Summit, Will Miller presents findings from the Wallace Foundation report, The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences (2014). Watch the …
Build Your Audience Through Strategic Organizational Alignment

By American Alliance of Museums

Internationally renowned for his expertise in arts management, Michael Kaiser discusses the importance of organizational alignment around audience-building initiatives. Kaiser uses examples from his work at the Kennedy Center and Alvin …
Your Roving Reporter: An interview with Jim Croft: Executive Vice President of The Field Museum

By Betty Brewer

CEO Betty Brewer asked Jim Croft to think about changes he has seen over his 30+ years at The Field Museum as he prepared to leave the museum and move full time into the work of academia. You are one of a handful of people who formed the …