2020 Conference
Conference Sessions Handouts
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Monday
9:45 – 10:30 am
Welcome and Keynote Presentation
- Change Champions: Data-Informed Opportunities for Museums in a Pandemic-Impacted World
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Confronting Ourselves Together: Building an Inclusive Work Culture One Conversation at a Time
- Redefining School Programs in the Digital Age
- Your Museum Career: Now What?
12:30 – 1:15 pm
PAG Lunches
- Membership, Development, PR & Marketing
- Exhibitions
1:30-2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Finding Health and Wellness Through the Arts During a Pandemic
- Keeping the Museum: Facilities 101
Keeping the Museum - Facilities 101.docx - Membership: What Have We Done for You Lately?
- What now? Immersive Theater, Games and Interactive Content Responds to Covid
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Fundraising in the “New Normal” World
Joe_Marv_NEMA_Draft_3.pptx - Hands-on Learning During and After COVID
- History is Happening Now: Collecting the Covid-19 Experience
NEMA Covid-19 Collecting.pdf
Donnis COVID 19 Collecting Slides Nov 2020.pdf
Champlain College Student Reflections Survey April 2020.pdf - When Data Shock
Tuesday
10 – 10:30 am
Keynote Presentation
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Ask Us Anything: Human Resources
- Growing DEI, from the Inside Out
Growing DEI from the Inside, Out_Sources_11-9-20.docx - Leadership At All Levels - Exercising Influence When You Don’t Have Authority
- Monuments & Museums: What Should Happen with New England’s Controversial Public Art?
12:30 – 1:15 pm
Directors and Trustees Lunch
12:30 – 1:15 pm
PAG Lunches
- Young and Emerging Professionals
- Library & Archives, “Maintaining Inclusive Access to Archives in a Pandemic”
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Active Collections: What We’ve Learned
Active Collections Handout_Collections Tier Charts.pdf
Active Collections Handout_Poetic Collecting Scope Statements.pdf
Slideshow_Active Collections What We’ve Learned_NEMA 2020.pdf - Definitions of Justice
- Donor. Creep.
- Moving from “George Washington Slept Here” to “Who Cleaned this Chamber Pot?”: Redefining School Programs to Meet 21st Century Learning and Teaching
NEMA Handout .pdf
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Beyond 2020: Continuing Conversations About Voting Rights After the (Sesqui)Centennial
- Coming Out and Inviting In: Case Studies Interpreting Queer History
- Decolonizing Museums: A Case Study
- Stretching the STEAM/STEM Pipeline - Advancements Through Community Collaborations
Wednesday
10 – 10:30 am
Keynote Presentation
- Climate Change. COVID-19. Racial Inequality: What Each Crisis Can Teach Us for Tackling the Others
NEMA Sutton Keynote 2020.pdf
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Fresh Ideas for Futurist Fundraisers
Fresh Ideas for Futurist Fundraisers.docx - Climate Change and Historic Sites in New England
- Virtual Connections: Best Practices in Online Museum Ed
- We Are Allies: How to Listen, Learn, and Become Anti-Racist Museums
12:30 – 1:15 pm
PAG Lunches
- Curators, “Relevancy and Response in times of National Crisis”
- Education, “Grief and Recovery”
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Let’s Take This Outside!
- Creative Revenue Streams Amidst a Pandemic
- Policing Art: Censorship and Curating Difficult Content
- Using Virtual Platforms to Foster New Funding Opportunities and Empower Young Entrepreneurs
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Fostering Community Within Frontline Staff
- Landscapes as Museums: Educating Our Audiences and Ourselves
- What’s My Job? Board & Staff Roles in the Small Museum
Thursday
10 – 10:30 am
Keynote Presentation
- Celebrating Museums
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
Concurrent Presentations
- Beyond Hands-On: Tapping the Non-Touch Senses in Exhibitions
NEMA Beyond Touch Session.pdf
museum dance guide.pdf - Closing the Loop: Building a Culture of Evaluation Without a Staff Evaluator
- Museums and Reinvention: Evolution or Extinction
- Top 10 Issues Faced by First Time Executive Directors
First Time Directors Resources.docx
Top 10 Issues Faced by First Time EDs.pdf
12:30 – 1:15 pm
PAG Lunches
- Historic Sites
- RACCS, “Collections Care in the Time of COVID”
12:30 – 1:15 pm
The Museum Directors’ Discussion
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Angles on Art: Math and Art Activities for Families and Students
- Fundraising is a Team Sport: Setting Gift Policies and Procedures That Strengthen Your Institution from the Inside Out (and make your ED happy!)
- NAGPRA at 30: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future
NAGPRA at 30_resources.docx - Planning for Interpretive Planning
2:45 – 3:45 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Happy House Tours: Working with Homeowners and Volunteers for a Great Event
- Jumping Off the Page: Using Transmedia to Connect Middle Schoolers to Current Science Topics
- Rewriting Your Digital Plan: How to Get Your Tech Situation in Shape for Your Programs and Operations
- Where the Museum Things Are: a Look at Museums in Challenging Places and Time
Friday
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Black Art Matters Festivals, Queer Fashion Shows, Community Luncheons, Oh My!: Cultivating the College Art Museum as a Site for Radical Inclusion
- Resource Roundup: A Roundtable for Sharing (and Discussing) Sources Relevant to Contemporary Issues in the Museum Field
2020 NEMA Annual Conference Resource Roundup Handouts.docx
Gender Equity + Leadership Bibliography_v2.pdf
Decolonization Resources.pdf - Who You Gonna Call? NEMA 911!
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions
- Accessibility for Online Programs and Communication Channels
Accessibility Resources - NEMA _Accessibility for Online Programs and Communication Channels_.pdf - Learning from Listening
- Options for Activism for Museum People
- Sustainability and Partnerships: A Case Study with Old Sturbridge Village and Coggeshall Farm Museum