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The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites you to a virtual convening:The Writing on the Wall: Visitor-Centered Labels in Art Museums

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October 25, 2023 1:00-4:30 PM EDT How can museum practitioners leverage the most traditional form of galleryinterpretation—labels and text—to connect meaningfully with twenty-first centuryaudiences? At this virtual convening hosted by SAAM, pairs of curators andinterpretation specialists from Denver Art Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,Corning Museum of Glass, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and SmithsonianAmerican Art

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Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Announced

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Cheyney McKnight is Manager of Living History at New-York Historical Society, where she develops and runs Living History Programs. McKnight is also owner of Not Your Momma’s History, a public history consulting business that aids museums and historical sites in talking about the African experience within 18th and 19th century America. Not Your Momma’s History

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Our Town

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Part 1 Application Deadline:  August 3, 2023 Our Town is the NEA’s creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Our Town projects engage a wide range of local stakeholders in efforts to advance local economic,

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National Endowment for the Arts’ State & Regional Partnership Agreement grants

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The National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) State & Regional Partnership Agreement grants are awarded to the nation’s 56 state and jurisdictional arts agencies (SAAs), and the six regional arts organizations (RAOs) whose members comprise SAAs. Partnership support is also available to the national service organization for the state arts agencies. Partnership Agreement grant support enables SAAs and RAOs

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MAAM Announces New Executive Director

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Gretchen Sorin, President of the Mid Atlantic Association of Museum’s Board of Directors announces that Kahla DeSmit has been named as the new Director of the organization and will begin in her position on July 5, 2023. In this role she will lead the major museum organization serving New York, Pennsylvania,Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and

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Lilly Endowment: Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.

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Lilly Endowment is pleased to announce a new open and competitive round of its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. Through this initiative, the Endowment is inviting museums, historical sites and other cultural organizations to submit concept papers that describe potential plans to mount exhibitions, conduct educational programs and/or engage in other activities to provide fair, accurate and balanced

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MAAM Annual Meeting Session proposal deadline extended through June 9

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Thank you for all of the session proposals that have been submitted to date!  Our Program Committee can’t wait to start reviewing them as we plan the October Annual Meeting. We don’t know about you, but this May has been a LOT… for that reason we want to make sure everyone who is considering submitting

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Grant opportunity via NEH

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Small and mid-sized cultural organizations are keepers of history and culture, sources of lifelong learning, and community place makers. Public Impact Projects grants seek to assist you in meeting your community’s needs by expanding the scope, reach, and excellence of your public programs. These awards support a variety of activities that focus on enriching interpretive

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Museums for All Webinar

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Are you interested in learning more about Museums for All, an initiative dedicated to expanding community access? Join staff from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Association of Children’s Museums on June 15 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time to learn more about how and why over 1,100 museums participate in the program.

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Baltimore – Maintenance Culture Community

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Maintenance Culture is a project by Myriad, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to address challenges related to preserving complex, born-digital, creative works in small institutions. Myriad and collaborators will create and present an innovative, collaborative, digital preservation training program, expanding on existing curricula to specifically cover preserving time-based media art and other

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