Museum Risk-Taking: A Path to Success?
Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019
Time: 5:00-8:00PM
Location: Inforum; 4th floor, Faculty of Information Library, University of Toronto
Although risk-taking is seen as a trending term in the museum field, is it an ideal tool leading to museum success? To look deeper into this question, this panel brings together professionals from various fields of expertise that have divergent experience taking risk in their respective institution to complete a project, from exhibition design to programming. They will share their experience balancing innovation and risk, breaking away from museum conventions and shifting institutional paradigms. The panelists will highlighting the challenges and failures they faced along the way and what they have learned from being audacious in the museum field, and finally, share their thoughts what is the “path to success”.
The panel, facilitated by MMSt Alumni and MMSt50 Committee Chair Melissa Smith, Co-ordinator - Gallery Guide Program, Adult Education Officer Program, and Access to Art Programs, Art Gallery of Ontario, includes Karen Carter, Founding Executive Director, Myseum of Toronto, Jim Shedden, Manager, Publishing and Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario and Shaniqua Liston, Operations Coordinator, Kingston Penitentiary Tours - St. Lawrence Parks Commission.
The panel will be followed by a networking cocktail where guests will be invited to share their thoughts on the topic with the panelists. Snacks will be provided and drinks available for purchase.
This event is free and open to the general public. Please register on Eventbrite as spaces are limited.
Time: 5:00-8:00PM
Location: Inforum; 4th floor, Faculty of Information Library, University of Toronto
Although risk-taking is seen as a trending term in the museum field, is it an ideal tool leading to museum success? To look deeper into this question, this panel brings together professionals from various fields of expertise that have divergent experience taking risk in their respective institution to complete a project, from exhibition design to programming. They will share their experience balancing innovation and risk, breaking away from museum conventions and shifting institutional paradigms. The panelists will highlighting the challenges and failures they faced along the way and what they have learned from being audacious in the museum field, and finally, share their thoughts what is the “path to success”.
The panel, facilitated by MMSt Alumni and MMSt50 Committee Chair Melissa Smith, Co-ordinator - Gallery Guide Program, Adult Education Officer Program, and Access to Art Programs, Art Gallery of Ontario, includes Karen Carter, Founding Executive Director, Myseum of Toronto, Jim Shedden, Manager, Publishing and Curator, Art Gallery of Ontario and Shaniqua Liston, Operations Coordinator, Kingston Penitentiary Tours - St. Lawrence Parks Commission.
The panel will be followed by a networking cocktail where guests will be invited to share their thoughts on the topic with the panelists. Snacks will be provided and drinks available for purchase.
This event is free and open to the general public. Please register on Eventbrite as spaces are limited.
Karen Carter is the Executive Director of the Myseum of Toronto, an innovative approach to the museum experience, and a new way to experience Toronto’s natural spaces, cultures, history, archaeology and architecture. She has over 20 years experience working and volunteering in a variety of cultural and educational settings in Toronto. She is the co-founder and Chair of Black Artists’ Networks Dialogue (BAND), an organisation dedicated to the promotion of Black arts and culture in Canada and abroad.
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Jim Shedden is the Manager of Publishing at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he also occasionally curates film-related exhibitions. Shedden worked at the AGO as a film curator and performing arts programmer, before leaving for a 12 year stint at Bruce Mau Design. He directed films, recently completed a feature documentary, I Drink, and is hard at work on a new feature doc, Music Swims Back to Me. Shedden has written extensively on music, film, video, art, and design, published dozens of zines and small press publications, and has been involved in the artist-run scene in Toronto since the late 1980s.
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Kathleen Brown, COO of Lord Cultural Resources, provides 30-plus years of experience as a respected consultant with proven management skills. Her work leaves clients and others in the field inspired and informed for their organizations’ future. Kathleen’s work has included both staff and consulting positions with cultural attractions, community organizations, government and academia.
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Shaniqua Liston has been working with the Kingston Pen Tours through the St. Lawrence Parks Commission, partnered with the City of Kingston and the Correctional Service of Canada since it's debut season in 2015. As Operations Coordinator, she learned about all of the "behind the scenes action" in maintaining the functionality and popularity of the Pen and became aware of the limitations that were put in place; both physically and operationally, while ensuring customers receive a genuine and authentic experience.
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