National Art Education Association
Museum Education Division
Designing for Transparency
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
8:30 am – 5:30 pm, followed by a wine reception from 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Chicago, IL
Program Schedule
8:00-8:30 am: Travel to The Art Institute of Chicago
Preconference registrants will be responsible for finding their own way to The Art Institute of Chicago, located 8-10 minute walk or a quick cab ride from either convention hotel.
8:30-9:00 am: Registration; Art Institute of Chicago Group Entrance. Come caffeinated!
9:00-9:15 am: Welcome by NAEA Museum Education Division Leaders
• Emily Holtrop, NAEA Museum Education Division Director and Director of Learning & Interpretation,
Cincinnati Art Museum
• Michelle Grohe, NAEA Museum Education Division Director-Elect and Assistant Curator of Education &
School Programs, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
9:15-11:15 am: Designing for Transparency: Using Design Thinking to Foster Communication Workshop
Facilitated by Dana Mitroff Silvers, Designing Insights; co-facilitator Maryanna Rogers.
Where are you coming from? Where are your colleagues and peers coming from? And where can we go together? Join us for a two-hour workshop at the Art Institute of Chicago and explore these questions by applying the design thinking framework to issues of transparency, communication, and collaboration within our institutions and among each other.
Design thinking is a human-centered process for problem solving and innovation. In this two-hour session, attendees will be introduced to design thinking through a hands-on, highly interactive experience. You will learn how to apply selected tools and methods of the design thinking framework to your professional life and communications, including empathy interviewing, problem definition, rapid prototyping, and user testing.
11:15-11:45 am: Explore the galleries on your own.
11:45 am-12:45 pm: Lunch Break
Optional Roundtable Discussions: Building Transparency within our Ourselves & the Field
Preconference registrants will receive a follow-up email in January 2016 to select lunch preferences.
Practice listening strategies learned in the morning's Design Thinking workshop as you lunch with colleagues and reflect on your strengths, and areas to grow in your practice. What drives our practice? What would you really love to learn more about? How did your colleagues go about it? Table captains will take notes and post ideas and references on a shared Google document after the pre conference as a division-wide resource.
*Please refer to related January 2016 "Get Ready for the Preconference" Peer to Peer Google+ Hangout On Air.
12:45-2:00 pm: Generative Gallery Teaching
Building on the popularity of the gallery teaching sessions during last year’s conference, we will focus on how transparency within your teaching can generate new ideas for your audiences and deepen your skills as a practitioner. A variety of gallery teaching themes will be explored through small group demonstration and discussion, including topics such as: incorporating technology into gallery experiences, extended viewing (slow looking) with teachers, sketching as a launching pad for teaching vocabulary, building capacity for open-ended inquiry with intergenerational groups, talking about art to foster institutional collaboration, to name a few. Calls for teaching demonstrators will be released in October 2015, selected by late November 2015.
Preconference participants will select from full list in January 2016.
2:15-2:45 pm: Make your own way to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for the afternoon. AIC staff will help direct attendees to cabs, public transportation, or share a Uber or Lyft ride with new or old colleagues!
2:30-3:45 pm: Coffee and Tea Break, Gallery Time & Networking
Caffeinated back up with afternoon coffee and tea at the MCA. Continue conversations with colleagues, and MCA Chicago Artist Guides will be on hand to engage you in conversation about the works of art in the galleries.
4:00-5:00 pm: Listening as a Transparency Tool with 21st Century Museum Visitors Panel Discussion
Moderated by Ben Garcia, Deputy Director, San Diego Museum of Man
What do we do? And what could we do? This final session of the day offers a rare opportunity to hear what art museum stakeholders’ expectations, experiences as they regularly engage with art museums as well as share their hope for the future. Explore new insights from a panel featuring a diverse group of individuals involved in art museums, including a local designer, teenager, trustee, and parent. Employ active listening techniques as a tool gained from the morning’s workshop as you take notes and consider how you might incorporate these different perspectives into your own professional and personal practice. Panelist biographies are listed below.
Join us for brief welcome from NAEA Leadership and a quick run-down of how to make the most of NAEA 2016, including opportunities to become more involved, how to get the best of your convention experience, and a brief overview of Museum Education Division organization and initiatives.
5:30-6:30 pm: Reception
MCA Chicago
6:30 pm: Optional Dinners with Colleagues
Explore the Windy City! Join a small group of colleagues for an informal pay-your-own-way dinner within a short walk or cab ride of the MCA. Sign-up sheets will be available during lunch.
Afternoon Panelists
Cecilia Garibay, PhD
Garibay has led numerous research and evaluation projects, including initiatives funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. She has consulted with a wide range of museums across the U.S. and Canada, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Smithsonian National History Museum, the Exploratorium, and the American Museum of Natural History. Her 20 years of research and evaluation experience also includes working with non-profit organizations, foundations, and corporations. Garibay has also served on the Board of the Visitor Studies Association.
Genia Chechersky is a Manager for emnos U.S. at the firm’s Chicago office. In her current role, Genia leads consulting teams and collaborates with client-side senior management to deliver the insights and analytics needed to make better commercial decisions, specifically in the areas of loyalty marketing, direct communication, assortment, layout, pricing, promotion, insight sharing, and customer experience. Genia is passionate about retail and committed to delivering tangible and sustainable results for her clients.
Prior to emnos, Genia worked for Chicago-based McMillanDoolittle, a boutique retail consultancy, and L.E.K. She received a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Operations Management from New York University’s Stern School of Business and was awarded a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Currently, Genia serves as president of the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Museum Council, a group of creative professionals who act as ambassadors for the museum by promoting its programs and events to their peer networks.
Vivien Jackson is the mother of one of the former IntuiTeen interns at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. Her daughter Sierra recently came back from college to hang a pop-up exhibition at Intuit.
Camille (Charly) Warden is a second year member of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s Teen Creative Agency (TCA) and is a senior at Lincoln Park High School. Charly is a vegan and a feminist, and hopes to become a history teacher.
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Registration Fee:
Convention Attendee: $99; Non-member: $125; NAEA Student/Preservice Member: $75
Questions? Please contact:
Michelle Grohe, NAEA Museum Education Division Director-Elect
(617) 278-5149 or mgrohe@isgm.org
