Schedule |
Wednesday: October 2nd from 5:00 - 7:00 PM - Vara Tasting Room |
Thursday October 3rd | Registration & Welcome Breakfast 8:30 am – 9:15 am | New Mexico Museum of Art Lobby and Courtyard Welcome Address – DCA Secretary Debra Garcia Y Griego 9:15 am – 9:45 am | New Mexico Museum of Art St. Francis Auditorium Keynote – Susan Guyette, Ph.D: Museum Resilience through Adaptive Planning 9:45 am – 10:30 am | New Mexico Museum of Art St. Francis Auditorium Adaptive museum planning examines the scenarios of possible pathways, given the unknown direction of visitation restrictions, the economy, environmental conditions, and popular interests shifted by cultural change during the COVID19 pandemic. Museums of the future are likely to expand their functions, if not only from the standpoint of necessity for survival. Resilience and readiness are concepts now coming to the forefront. Practical, value-based planning techniques (adaptive and multiple-scenario) presented emphasize steps for creating an arts and culture district, museums as a hub for tourism, employment creation, diversifying income through collaborations, and developing learning programs to support cultural continuance—through further community integration. The author will explain strategies from her newly released book, Museum Resilience. Creative Industries Projects in Museums: First Year and Beyond 10:45 am – 11:45 am | New Mexico Museum of Art St. Francis Auditorium Presenters: Cindy Graves, Guest Curator Traveling Exhititions Devin Geraci, UNM Art Museum State Representative Reena Szczepanski (District 47, Santa Fe) The New Mexico Creative Industries Division, established in July 2023 in the New Mexico Economic Development Department just concluded the first year project grants, several provided to New Mexico museums. Panelists will discuss their $100,000 grants and the Creative Industries Division’s first director, Shani Harve, and State Representative Reena Szczepanski (District 47) who carried House Bill 8 to establish the new Division, will provide insights to the future plans. That DAMS Archives Project 10:45 am – 11:45 am | History Museum: Auditorium Presenters: Hannah Abelbeck, Curator Supervisor, New Mexico History Museum Catie Carl, Photo Archivist, NMHM Kathleen Dull, Librarian & Archivist Hall Frost, Photo Archivist, NMHM Kathleen Dull, Librarian & Archivist, NMHM The New Mexico History Museum’s History Library and Photo Archives staff have been quietly at work on a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) to address their critical digital preservation needs and to markedly expand collection access. Join us for an overview of the project, the platform, unique challenges involved in the display of archival materials, troubleshooting technological shortcomings, and our goals for the next steps. Neurodiversifying Your Museum's Guest Experience 10:45 am – 11:45 am | History Museum: Meem Room Presenters: C.L. Kieffer Nail, Historic Preservation and Interpretation Specialist Leona Hillary, Director of Education, Children’s Museum Chris Nail, Head of Education, New Mexico Museum of Art It is estimated that 15-20% of the population is diagnosed or identifies as neurodiverse (an encompassing term used to describe the ways people’s brains work that includes differences such as autism, ADHD, ADD, and dyslexia). Being neurodiverse can greatly impact an individual’s experience in a museum with the potential to make a visit unenjoyable, cut short, or avoid the cultural experience all together. In this session learn low-cost ways your institution can strive towards DEAI of the neurodiverse population and how meeting their needs aids in all guests having a pleasant experience. Presentations will include topics of sensory bags and sensory spaces by New Mexico Historic Sites, how to better train your staff for assisting neurodiverse guests by the Children’s Museum, and achievable accessibility in gallery spaces by the New Mexico Museum of Art. Question and answer session to follow. Lunch Break 11:45 am – 1:30 pm Culture at The Crossroads: Reaching Diverse and Underserved Communities 1:30 pm – 2:20 pm | New Mexico Museum of Art St. Francis Auditorium Presenters: Jennifer Hasty, Supervisor, Wonders on Wheels Mobile Museum Eli Guinee, State Librarian New Mexico is a geographically vast and culturally diverse state with a complex history that still shapes the perspectives of our regional communities, urban and rural. How can the museums, archives, and libraries of our state reach across geographical and cultural boundaries to serve all New Mexicans, particularly those who may feel marginalized or neglected by the state? This roundtable discussion session will bring together outreach and education staff from DCA institutions that will discuss strategies for reaching diverse and underserved communities of New Mexico. Conceiving and Designing a Large-Scale Space History Interactive 1:30 pm – 2:20 pm | History Museum: Auditorium Presenters: Stacy Hasselbacher, Director of Creative Projects, Ideum Brianna Buller, Assistant Curator, New Mexico Musuem of Space History Alex Scarpitto, Producer, Ideum Sonia Lorenz, Experience Design Manager, Ideum Juan Gechem, Experience Designer, Ideum Project team members from the New Mexico Museum of Space History and Ideum will share the story of how a new large-scale “Firsts in Space History” interactive exhibit was conceived and designed. The Museum will discuss the origin of the idea and their goals for the exhibit. Ideum will share how design decisions were made to accommodate the learning goals, experience goals, and physical layout of the exhibit. Together, we will discuss the process of collaborating to create the best possible visitor experience. This session will be interactive! We will present our cooperative process for the first half, then open the session for audience discussion and Q&A about this exhibit, and the interactive design process. Magic Marks 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | History Museum: Meem Room Presenters: Isabel Tafoya, Educator, Explora Children’s Science Center Will Allen, Educator, Explora Children’s Science Center Mark making is more than drawing; it is expression, synthesis, and experimentation. Enjoy freeing your inner child with a Reggio Emilla-style workshop, where we will provide a sensory experience and opportunity to slow down, listen, and observe the world around you. Make magic marks, play with paper, and experiment with imperfection the Explora way. Lead From Where You Are 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | New Mexico Museum of Art St. Francis Auditorium Presenters: Jennifer Hayden, President and CEO, National Museum of Nuclear Science & History “Lead from Where You Are” is a session for museum professionals who are climbing the proverbial ladder to leadership and executive positions within the museum industry. As a young, female CEO at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Jennifer will discuss her route to leadership through five positions at the Nuclear Museum over 15 years. She will also share guidance on what she learned along the way regarding finding balance, having patience, and not shying away from challenges. When One Museum Isn't Enough: The COMPASS Program 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | History Museum: Auditorium Presenters: Chris Nail, Head of Education, New Mexico Museum of Art Matthew Contos, Director of Creativity & Learning, SITE SANTA FE Serving students and helping them feel welcome in our galleries is a challenge that museums eagerly embrace. When the idea for serving those students gets ambitious, one museum sometimes isn’t enough. In 2022 the New Mexico Museum of Art had an idea for our new location, the Vladem Contemporary. What if we could ensure that every student in the Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) experienced a contemporary art museum once during their K-12 education? SFPS liked the idea and asked that 7th grade be the focus of the program. After a look at the number of students that would be involved, the museum concluded that we needed help to pull this off. Fortunately, we found an outstanding partner in our neighbor, SITE Santa Fe. This session will cover the project’s development during the pilot year, lessons learned, and plans for the 2024-2025 school year. Reception at The Museum of New Mexico Foundation 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm | 1411 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe, NM 87501 |
Friday October 4th | Registration, Coffee and Networking 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Museum Hill Meem Auditorium ALL REZ: Fostering Community-Based Museology Through Creative Placemaking 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: O'Keeffe Theater Presenters: Lillia McEnaney, Museum Anthropologist & Independent Curator Rapheal Begay (Dine), Photographer and Independent Curator Toni Gentilli, Curator of Exhibits, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology This session centers on ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iiná | Land, Home, Kinship, Life, an experimental, traveling, site-specific photography exhibition and collaborative project. By centering the voices and experiences of Diné community members through active storytelling, ALL REZ offers a reciprocal process of exhibition-making that is artist-driven, place-based, and directly shaped by the community members who engage with the exhibit. We will explore the project’s specific vision and multifaceted goals, asking questions centered on curatorial voice and institutional authority, strategies for community collaborations and generative partnerships, and methods for fostering Indigenized museum spaces. Experiential Activities: Snapshot & The Human Timeline 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Museum of International Folk Art: Auditorium Presenters: Nancy Morris-Judd, Educator at the New Mexico History Museum Experiential learning activities are an engaging way to connect with museum visitors of all ages! In this workshop attendees will learn how to lead two activities by participating in Snapshot & The Human Timeline. Facilitator Nancy Morris-Judd uses these activities at the New Mexico History Museum with students, but they can be altered for different subjects and audiences. Use Snapshot to introduce visitors to overarching concepts in your museum exhibitions. This arts integration activity uses movement and theater to lead participants in defining big ideas and then acting out their meaning in small groups. The Human Timeline is used to explore New Mexico historical periods and key events. NAGPRA Crash Course 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Meem Auditorium Presenters: Ash Boydston-Schmidt, NAGPRA Coordinator - Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Join us for a “crash course” on the history and context of NAGPRA by Ash Boydston-Schmidt, the NAGPRA Coordinator at the Maxwell Museum. The session will include a brief overview of the new federal regulations for that and participants will have an opportunity to ask questions. Since 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has provided for the protection and return of Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. At the onset of 2024, new federal regulations for NAGPRA went into effects that have widespread impact on museums, researchers, and Native communities. Currently, questions abound regarding these recent updates. Media Arts & Technology, NMHU - Annual Tech Showcase 10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Classroom Presenters: Becca Sharp, Media Arts & Technology Internship Coordinator Destiny Zukevich, MFACT Student, Media Arts & Technology, NMHU Emily Clark, MFACT Student, Media Arts & Technology, NMHU Gabriel Jimenez, Media Arts & Technology, NMHU Julianna Olguin, Student, Media Arts & Technology, NMHU, Josh Ortega, Student, Media Arts & Technology NMHU Rianne Trujillo, Faculty, Media Arts & Technology NMHU Carlyn Stewart, Archeologist, NM State Land Office Transforming The Library at The US Southwest Soaring Museum 10:45 am – 11:40 am | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: O'Keeffe Theater Presenters: Dan Sharpes, Grad Student, UNM Museum Studies Department Making the library a useful research facility for all, from STEM students to aviation historians. Topics include: learning how to make the library useful, weeding books and magazines, highlighting unexpected finds, documenting and digitizing videos, films, slides, and photos, an application of the resources, and incorporating oral histories. Discussions with Delilah Montoya: Sagrado Corazon 10:45 am – 11:40 am | Museum of International Folk Art: Auditorium Presenters: Hannah Cerne, Graduate Assistant at UNM Art Museum The presentation will provide art historians and academics with a new perspective from Delilah Montoya as a student at UNM and a current student at UNM, Hannah Cerne. It’s based on a discussion about her path as an artist leading to her master’s thesis work at the University of New Mexico, “Sagrado Corazon Sacred Heart.” The interview focuses on the search for Delilah’s identity while balancing student life and transitioning into her latest works. Hannah continued to research Delilah Montoya’s master’s thesis by looking further into the process of Delilah’s master’s thesis, discussing the symbolism of the Sacred Heart in other religious traditions, through which Montoya confronts identity and cultural transitions. Handled with Care: Using Interactive Touch Tables to Connect Visitors to History 10:45 am – 11:40 am | Meem Auditorium Presenters: Camelia Caton-Garcia, Director of Collections, NM Holocaust & Intolerance Museum Nathan Johnson, Director of Programs, NMHIM New digital technologies create both opportunities and challenges. NM Holocaust & Intolerance Museum staff will discuss their experiences navigating the plethora of platforms, designers, and developers available to find the best fit for your institutional and curatorial goals. Staff will discuss technologies such as: -using touch tables to engage visitors in new dynamic ways; Travel with Dot which offers visitors a way to access fragile and multidimensional archival materials; and Seeds: The Human Cost, lets visitors dive deeper into the personal stories of victims of the Holocaust. AAMG Gathering and Information Session 10:45 am – 11:40 am | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Library Room Presenters: Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer, Curator of Collections, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Association of Academic Museums & Galleries (AAMG) event for informal conversation and networking. This session aims to bring awareness of AAMG to attendees, engage emerging professionals, and strengthen the Mountain Plains regional group. Business Lunch & Elections – New Mexico Changemakers 11:45 am – 1:30 pm | Meem Auditorium/Milner Plaza Relationships and Repatriations: A Conversation About Engaging Indigenous Communities and Authorities with Museum Collections 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: O'Keeffe Theater Presenters: Elisabeth Stone, Deputy Director, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Diana Sherman, MIAC Danyelle Means, MIAC Join Jackie Swift (Comanche and Fort Sill Apache) for a conversation about the layered relationships and goals that underpin building strong, complex, and dynamic mutual relationships among Tribal members, authorities, and museum stakeholders. Bring your questions, solutions, dilemmas, and dreams to this facilitated conversation. Re-Imagining "Space" for Learning & Engagement at The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | Museum of International Folk Art: Auditorium Presenters: Molly Baker, Adult Programs Manager; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Grace Almanza, School and Tour Programs Manager; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Hanna Cianci; Community Outreach Coordinator; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Join members of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Learning & Engagement Department, Grace Almanza, Molly Baker, and Hannah Cianci as they share the ways they bring meaningful learning experiences to local and non-local communities both within and beyond the Museum’s physical campus. The presentation will explore specific examples from the L&E Department’s three programming areas (Youth & Family Learning, Community Engagement, and Adult Programs) that collectively expand how the Department aims to reimagine “space” as a site for connection, impact, and growth. The presentation will also address the ways that a perceived limitation of physical space can actually be a way to open doors for creative innovation and the cultivation of community partnerships. Building Trust-based Practices in Museums for Cultural Equity 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | Meem Auditorium Presenters: Noel Bella Merriam, Artistic Director, National Hispanic Cultural Center Jadira Gurule, Visual Arts Program Manager and Head Curator, National Hispanic Cultural Center How can museums respectfully and effectively build trust with visitors to provide inclusive and meaningful community engagement as well as more trust-based curatorial practices? A culturally specific art museum shares their approaches to and challenges with building trust-based curatorial practices with guest curators and exhibiting artists, as well as their collaborative work within the community using culturally sustaining pedagogy. The significance of place, first person voice, actual and perceived barriers to visitor participation, representation, and lived experience will be examined along with the importance of shared authority and dismantling dominant narratives. The presentation will investigate terminology such as “trust-based practice” and “culturally sustaining pedagogy” and explore approaches to balancing expectations between collaborators, leadership, and staff as well as realigning internal priorities, along with strategies for moving from equity and inclusion theory into action. The Humanities Project 3 pm – 4 pm | Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: O'Keeffe Theater Presenters: Chris Nail, Head of Education, New Mexico Museum of Art Cross curricular connections/ Teacher and student resources/ Visual Literacy/ Online accessibility. The New Mexico Museum of Art has tried to wrap them all into one new online resource, creating educational resources for K-12 audiences. The Humanities Project connects works in our collection with a range of humanities disciplines while addressing visual literacy needs. This project was developed with the experience of a previous resource, New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History (NMATNMH) and significant input from a panel of New Mexico teachers. Join us for an overview of how The Humanities Project came about, goals for the project, challenges encountered and lessons learned in its development, and what we’ve learned in its first year. Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss & Resilience from Ukraine - Gallery Tour 3 pm – 4 pm | Museum of International Folk Art: Auditorium Presenters: Laura J. Mueller, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Museum of International Folk Art Nina Medvinskaya, Guest Curator, Museum of International Folk Art This session will provide a guided tour of Amidst Cries from the Rubble: Art of Loss and Resilience from Ukraine, one of MOIFA’s newest exhibitions. Co-curators, Laura J. Mueller and Nina Medvinskaya will discuss the development of the exhibit, the unique nature of its objects, and the intricacies of featuring an ongoing global conflict in a museum environment. Multimedia in nature, the exhibit showcases more than sixty works, including large-scale photographs and evocative objects collected from the war-torn landscapes and communities of Ukraine. Appropriating tools of war—shell casings, missile fragments, ammunition boxes—Ukrainians breathe new life into these materials, infusing them with the spirit of human creativity. A Q&A session will be held following the tour. Engaging Hispanic Communities Initiative: Equitable Community Building through Youth Empowerment 3 pm – 4 pm | MEEM Auditorium Presenters: Julia Monge, Project Manager, Explora Science Center & Children’s Museum Hugh McDonald, Explora Tracy Herrera, Horizons Albuquerque Explora, in collaboration with Horizons Albuquerque, is spearheading the “Engaging Hispanic Communities Initiative” aimed at broadening participation in STEM through authentic, community-driven experiences. This presentation will focus on the “Youth Summit on the Future,” a transformative event that brought together Hispanic/Latine teens to envision their futures. The Summit, held at Explora and X Studio, engaged youth in discussions, creative explorations, and collaborative activities, culminating in the co-development of a museum exhibition that captures their diverse perspectives. This session will highlight the importance of equitable community building, the role of youth as leaders in cultural institutions, and the collaborative process that integrates local wisdom into meaningful museum experiences. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for engaging underrepresented communities in museum programming and the impact of empowering youth voices in shaping the future of museum exhibitions. |
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