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Recording available. Timestamps for each session have been added to the program below
Friday, May 10, 2024
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
Prompted by the 2022 SAA publication, Museum Archives: Practice, Issues, Advocacy, the Yale Center for British Art and SAA’s Museum Archives Section are hosting a one-day symposium to examine the current position and future directions of the museum archives field. The symposium will be held in person at the Yale University Art Gallery and livestreamed. Though there is no cost, if you plan to attend in person, register to reserve your spot at https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/museum-archives. To attend virtually, just tune in to the livestream.
(All times Eastern)
Program
10:15–10:20 am: Welcome
Tara Laver, Senior Archivist, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
10:20–10:40 am: Introduction
Rachel Chatalbash, Deputy Director for Research, Yale Center for British Art
Session 1: 10:40 am – 12 pm
Engaging Communities: New Approaches in Museum Archives [stars at 23:56]
Chair: Megan Schwenke, Senior Archivist/Records Manager, Harvard Art Museums
This session will explore unique engagement projects that bring museum archives collections directly to a variety of users via interactive storytelling and educational partnerships. Together the talks will demonstrate ways to expand collection access and connect a range of audiences to history and will provide insight and ideas to museum archivists seeking to do the same.
10:40–10:45 am: Session introduction by Megan Schwenke
10:45–11:05 am
Christina Volpe, Curator, Barnes Museum, Southington, CT
Brewing History: Integrating Museum Archives into Community Outreach at Southington's Barnes Museum
11:05–11:25 am
Abigail Harrison, Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, University of Leeds
Whose Power?: Participatory Action Research with Young People in Museum Archives
11:25–11:45 am
Marietta Carr, Librarian and Archivist, Schenectady County Historical Society
History in Their Hands: K–12 Education in the Archives
11:45 am – 12 pm
Q+A moderated by Megan Schwenke
12–1:30 pm: Lunch
Session 2: 1:30–2:35 pm
Studies in Museum Archives [starts at 3:17:20]
Chair: Susan Hernandez, Museum Archivist, Cleveland Museum of Art
This session will examine how museum archivists can creatively and strategically pull back the curtain and bring transparency to their collection holdings for both internal and external audiences. Speakers will detail examples of exhibitions and tours, records management programs, and integrated description to consider how historical documentation of a museum’s history and object collection can bring museum archives to life.
1:30–1:35 pm
Session introduction by Susan Hernandez
1:35–1:55 pm
Marie Penny, Michael D. Coe Archivist, Planting Fields Foundation
Archives Speak
1:55–2:15 pm
Meg Ocampo, Archivist/Records Manager, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Operationalizing Records Management at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2:15–2:35 pm
Sarah R. Demb, Deputy Director, Records and Information Management, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Wicked Fragmentation: Archival Dissociation as a Tool for Reparation and Inclusivity
2:35–2:45 pm
Q+A moderated by Susan Hernandez
2:45–2:55 pm: comfort break
Session 3: 2:55–4:10 pm
Access and Appraisal [starts at 4:41:46]
Chair: Jessica Quagliaroli, Chief Archivist, Yale Center for British Art
This session will examine how museum archivists can work within the structures of their museums to successfully reassess appraisal practices and advocate for revised access policies. Drawing upon their own experiences, speakers will share how their work in these two areas directly contributed to new access policies for materials with Personally Identifiable Information (PII), archival material related to sensitive content, and the elimination of barriers such as use fees.
2:55–3 pm
Session introduction by Jessica Quagliaroli
3–3:20 pm
Laura Uglean Jackson, Digital Archivist, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Permissions and Fees in the Cenozoic: Dissolving Access Barriers at a Nature and Science Museum Archives
3:20–4 pm
Erin Kinhart, Head of Collections Processing and Digitization, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Marguerite Roby, Photograph Archivist, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; and Celia Emmelhainz, Supervisory Anthropologist, National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Reappraisal and Reassessment in Museum Archives at the Smithsonian Institution
4–4:15 pm
Q+A moderated by Jessica Quagliaroli
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