This fall, in celebration of Dartmouth's 250th anniversary and the reopening of the Hood, the museum will showcase alumni who have gone on to careers in museums through panel sessions and a reception.
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
EVENING SESSION
Gilman Auditorium
5:00–5:10 pm
WELCOME
5:10–6:40 pm
MUSEUM PRACTICE: FUTURES/DIRECTIONS
MODERATOR: Megan Fontanella '04, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Liz Tunick Cedar '05, Manager of Global Cultural Sustainability Programs, Office of International Relations, Smithsonian Institution
Joshua Chuang '98, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Associate Director for Art, Prints and Photographs, and The Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography, New York Public Library
Elisabeth Sherman '06, Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
Lisa Volpe '04, Associate Curator, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
MORNING SESSION
Gilman Auditorium
8:45–9:00 am
INTRODUCTION
9:00–10:30 am
ACADEMIC MUSEUMS AND THEIR FUTURES
MODERATOR: Tricia Y. Paik '91, Florence Finch Abbott Director, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Juliette Bianco '94, Deputy Director, Hood Museum of Art
Maggie Lind Newey '02, Associate Director of Academic Programs and Public Education, Smith College Museum of Art
Catherine Roberts Shteynberg '05, Assistant Director / Curator of Arts & Culture Collections, McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Tennessee
John Wetenhall '79, Director, George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
10:30–10:45 am
BREAK
10:45 am–12:15 pm
CURATORS AND CONSERVATORS COLLABORATE
MODERATOR: Amelia Kahl '01, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming, Hood Museum of Art
Megan Fontanella '04, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Yuriko Jackall '99, Curator of French Painting, The Wallace Collection
Jean Rosston '77, Fine Arts Conservator, Kunsthaus Zürich
Anna Serotta '03, Assistant Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
12:15–1:45 pm
LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON SESSION
Gilman Auditorium
1:45–3:15 pm
WHO OWNS THE PAST AND WHAT ROLE DO MUSEUMS PLAY?
MODERATOR: Amelia Kahl '01, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming, Hood Museum of Art
Sean Hemingway '89, John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge, Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jan Seidler Ramirez '73, Chief Curator and Director of Collections, National September 11 Memorial and Museum
Marla Red Corn '89, Director, Osage Nation Museum
3:15–3:30 pm
BREAK
3:30–5:00 pm
INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY IN MUSEUMS: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
MODERATOR: Brooke Minto '01, Executive Director, Zeitz MOCAA Foundation USA, and Director of Institutional Advancement, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Maxwell L Anderson '77, President, Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol '13, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Ellen Tani '05, Assistant Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
5:00–6:00 pm
RECEPTION
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
A key mission of the Hood Museum of Art (and its predecessors, the Dartmouth College Museum and the Dartmouth College Galleries and Collections) has been to train undergraduate interns in the ins and outs of the museum profession. Not surprisingly, many of its former interns, along with Dartmouth anthropology, art history, classics, and studio art majors and minors, have gone on to work in this rewarding and ever-changing field. This autumn, in celebration of Dartmouth's 250th anniversary and the reopening of the Hood Museum in its new renovated and expanded building, we will showcase alumni who have gone on to careers in museums with a symposium titled The New Now: Art, Museums, and the Future. The event will begin with one evening panel on October 25, followed by four panels the next day. In choosing the topics of these panels, we have focused on themes that highlight the issues faced by many museum professionals today: Who Owns the Past and What Role Do Museums Play?; Curators and Conservators Collaborate; Inclusion and Diversity in Museums: What Does That Mean?; Academic Museums and Their Futures; and Curatorial Practice: Futures/Directions.
Dartmouth alumni support of the arts, culture, and museums takes many forms. Some support museums through a professional affiliation, others through volunteering, board membership, or simply being avid museum goers. We celebrate you all through this fall program and invite you to come and contribute through your comments and questions after each panel.
During the symposium, we will invite all Dartmouth undergraduates who have an interest in museums to attend a luncheon where they can meet with the panelists and discuss careers in museums and the arts. We hope you will join us in October to celebrate the strong representation by Dartmouth alumni in these areas.
PRESS MENTIONS
"Symposium at the Hood showcases the dynamic museum field," The Dartmouth
"Hood Hosts Symposium on the Future of Museums," Dartmouth News