Field Trip | A Day at the Weber County DUP Museum

10/12/2016 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Presenter: Weber County DUP

Field Trip | Take a Flight through History

10/12/2016 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Presenter: Hill Aerospace Museum

Workshop | School is Out: Engaging Future Stakeholders with Summer Camps that Stick

10/12/2016 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Presenter: Melissa Halvorsen

School Is Out: Engaging Future Stakeholders with Summer Camps that Stick

 

One of the best ways to engage children is through summer camps. It can be daunting to develop or revamp a summer camp from the ground up, especially when working with a tight budget. This workshop will provide an engaging, hands-on opportunity to establish the foundation of a summer camp program that can be adapted and honed to fit any organization regardless of size or resources. Topics covered will include developmental stages of children, realistic schedules, coordinating across an organization, and how to find resources and support in the community.

[There is no cost to participate however pre-registration is required and space is limited to 30 participants.]

 

Melissa Halvorsen, Special Programs Coordinator, Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

Opening Session | Love What You Do. Do What You Love

10/12/2016 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Presenter: James Leventhal, Director of Development, San Jose Museum of Art

Love What You Do. Do What You Love
James Leventhal, Director of Development, San Jose Museum of Art

In this interactive opening presentation Leventhal will speak to his personal experience and passion of the museum field, inspiring the crowd to respond with their thoughts about what brings them the greatest satisfaction in the work that they do.

Leventhal is an experienced fundraising professional who leads the San Jose Museum of Art development, membership, and facility rental programs. Prior to his current position Leventhal was Director of Development at The Exploratorium in San Francisco. He was a Deputy Director at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco for five years and before that Leventhal served as Director of Development and Marketing at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, now a part of the University of California, Berkeley. On arrival in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2002, Leventhal worked successfully for a year as a fundraising consultant for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco at the tail-end of the Campaign for the New de Young. before moving west, he worked in various capacities - curatorial, collections and development - at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1994-2002). Leventhal holds an MBA in management and museum studies from John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley; an MA in art history and museum studies from The City College, City University of New York; and a BS in studio art and anthropology from New York University. He currently serves on the board of the Western Museums Association.

General | The Center for Utah History, Heritage, and Arts: a Presentation

10/12/2016 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Opening Reception

10/12/2016 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Keynote | Being of Value: Intentionally Cultivating Engagement in Your Community

10/13/2016 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Presenter: Lynn D. Dierking, Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning, Oregon State University

Being of Value: Intentionally Cultivating Engagement in Your Community

 

Although the discussion of community engagement has been in the air among museums and other cultural institutions for many years, there is a fresh, and appropriately urgent focus that is far more outward looking than previous approaches. This presentation explores innovative efforts to intentionally connect to, and engage local communities by building strategic partnerships and taking an ecosystem approach to an institution’s role as a learning resource in its community, be that community small or large. In particular, the focus will be on how institutions can intentionally plan for, initiate and cultivate long-term community engagement. As the field increasingly strives to work for and with their communities, rather than merely maintaining the status quo of guaranteeing museums survive changing times, it is about ensuring that the work of museums and other cultural organizations is fully and meaningfully connected to the fabric and true needs of the communities in which they reside.  Issues Dierking will address include how museums can build deeper relationships with their local communities– funders, partners, volunteers, advocates--and perhaps people in the community not using their institutions; how limited resources can be harnessed for maximum engagement; and, the future of this work.

Lynn D. Dierking is Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning, Colleges of Science and Education, Oregon State University. Her research focuses on lifelong learning, particularly free-choice, out-of-school time learning (in after-school, home-, community-based and cultural contexts), with an emphasis on youth and families, particularly those who have historically not used museums and cultural institutions as learning resources.  Her research is diverse including investigating the long-term impacts of girls-only informal programs, efforts to engage Hispanic youth in prisons and their families in literacy efforts, and two projects at Oregon Museum of Science & Industry: one studying family interactions at mathematics-related exhibits and another studying girls’ identities in relationship to engineering.  She also is the Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation-funded project, called SYNERGIES, taking an ecosystem approach studying and maintaining youths’ interest and participation pathways in an under-resourced community in Oregon.  Lynn publishes extensively and is on Editorial Boards for the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, Afterschool Matters and Connected Science Learning. Her awards include the 2010 American Alliance of Museums’ John Cotton Dana Award for Leadership and a 2016 Distinguished Contributions to Science Education through Research award from NARST, an international organization supporting research on teaching and learning, acknowledging her critical influence on the recognition that free-choice/informal learning matters. 

UMA Business Lunch

10/13/2016 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

UMA Business Lunch

Join us for a delicious meal while networking with your colleagues from throughout Utah. During lunch Association business will be carried out.

General | Poster Session and Sponsor Reception

10/13/2016 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Awards Dinner

10/13/2016 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Awards Dinner

 

During dinner we will announce the recipients of our annual awards—the Phil Notarianni Distinguished Service Award for exceptional dedication to Utah Museums; the Bessie Jones Volunteer Award for dedicated volunteer service in Utah museums; and the Public Service Award for an individual working in a governmental capacity who has rendered vital support for Utah museums; the Award for Excellence given to an individual, team, or organization that has shown superior achievement; and the Rising Professional Award given to a rising, current museum professional whose work to date demonstrates a commitment to excellence.

 

Awards Dinner is included in your conference registration, but event registration is required. Guests of conference attendees are welcome to attend but must purchase a ticket. Cost: $40

Concurrent Sessions

10/14/2016 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Concluding Lunch

10/14/2016 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Workshop | Evaluation 101

10/14/2016 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM