Saturday, November 22, 2008 ,10:30am—12:30pm**
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Uris Center for Education,
Sacerdote Lecture Hall

Discover potential models for the future and see how these online encounters may be transforming our roles as museum professionals. Join us for a panel discussion and break-out sessions to examine active online teaching and learning in museums and to brainstorm possibilities for your institution.

Panelists
William Crow:
Associate Museum Educator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chris Lawrence:
Senior Manager of Digital Learning, New York Hall of Science

Jennifer Rothman:
Associate Vice President for Children’s and Public Education, New York Botanical Garden

Subway Directions: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk three blocks west to Fifth Avenue.

**Please RSVP to William.Crow@metmuseum.org by November 20
(Coffee and light refreshments will be served.)

SAVE THE DATE: DECEMBER 10th is the Annual NYCMER Holiday Party
at the newly reopened INTREPID Sea, Air & Space Museum!!!

Friday, October 3, 2008 • 6 – 9p.m.

Free for NYCMER members plus one guest!
$5 for non-members

Join old friends and new museum colleagues for the first NYCMER program of the year at the Museum of Arts and Design’s new location, 2 Columbus Circle.

Permanently MAD: Revealing the Collection will be open for viewing. It presents approximately 250 works from the permanent collection. For the first time in MAD’s 52-year history, dedicated collections galleries introduce visitors to the phenomenal ceramic, glass, wood, metal, fiber, and mixed media works in MAD’s collections. Many of the pieces are on view for the first time.

Subway directions: 1, A, B, C, D to 59th Street / Columbus Circle or N, R, Q, W to 57th Street and 7th Avenue

NYCMER’s mission is to provide a forum for museum education professionals to address issues of museum and educational interest, exchange and disseminate relevant information, and to explore and implement cooperative programming opportunities through roundtable discussions, workshops, seminars, symposia, professional development series and conferences.

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For the past several years museums have tried to reach an increasingly wider audience. Pressure from external funding sources and consumer demands have partially driven this shift, which in many cases has lead institutions to reconsider their mission and primary focus. Have museums lost their identity in a desire to serve a greater audience or has that identity instead evolved into something better? Are we trying to be too many things to too many people? Have we been trying to serve so many different audiences that we have forgotten our mission or should that mission be changed? What are the outside perceptions of a museum versus the internal perceptions? Are we meeting the public’s expectations and should we? This conference will provide a forum to discuss the preservation of museum identity as we strive to serve our public.

Hosted by El Museo del Barrio

Could not make it to AAM in Denver? Then join us for a breakfast meeting and discussion with Anne Dunning of ARTS Action Research on effective strategies and potential pitfalls for cultivating new audiences. We will discuss ways to sustain relationships that can build wider participation for your organizations.

Anne Dunning is Principal Associate at ARTS Action Research an arts consulting group widely recognized work in redefining the role, relationships, and operation of arts organizations in today’s challenging arts environment. She spent ten years with the Danny Grossman Dance Company in Toronto as administrative director. Among numerous arts leadership roles in Canada she was founding chair of the national council of the Canadian Dance Assembly and whip of The Creative Trust endowment campaign. She has served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Dance/ USA and sits on the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation’s Strategic Initiatives Committee.

NYCMER members: Free
Non-members: $5

Pre-registration requested: Please RSVP with your name, title and contact info to
Gary Schneider at gschneider@montclairartmuseum.org and include “April 2008 NYCMER Program” in the subject line.

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York, NY 10029
Program will be hosted at El Taller, 3rd floor.

Directions:
Subway
6 train to 103rd St station, walk one block north to 104th St. then two blocks west to Fifth Ave.
2 or 3 train to 110th St and Lenox Ave, walk one block east to Fifth Ave, then south to 104th St.

Bus
M1, M3, M4 northbound on Madison Ave or southbound on Fifth Ave to 104th St.

Car
Triboro Bridge - Take FDR south, exit at 106th St to Fifth Ave.
George Washington Bridge - Take Harlem River Drive to FDR south, exit at 106th St to Fifth Ave.
Cross-Bronx Expressway - Take 87 south, exit at 138th St Bridge, follow signs to Fifth Ave.

Hosted by the Museum of Modern Art.

Join us for a moderated discussion with Deborah Schwartz, President of the Brooklyn Historic Society and Claudine Brown, Director of the Arts and Culture Program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation.

RSVP to Gary Schneider at gschneider@montclairartmuseum.org .
Include “NYCMER program” in the subject line.

Directions
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
4 West 54th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue)
NY, NY 10019
Please note: This is the Education Building entrance on 54th Street, not the main museum entrance.

Subway: E or V to Fifth Avenue/53 Street; B, D, or F to 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller Center.

Bus: M1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to 53 Street

NYCMER members: Free

Non-members: $5

Getting to Next: Professional Growth in Museum Education and Beyond
Museum of Modern Art

Hosted by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, enter on 89th Street
In the New Media Theater, Sackler Center for Arts Education

This interactive workshop will begin with an exploration of what authentic reflection means and how to solicit it from learners of all ages. Participants will discuss how authentic reflection can be used as a tool for deepening the learning process. Workshop participants will also learn how to analyze and interpret results for evaluation

Abby Remer has provided innovative arts and cultural education services to organizations nationwide since the early 1980s and has been engaged in program evaluation and participant assessment for most of her career. Currently Ms. Remer continues to design a variety of programs for cultural organizations while also teaching graduate courses at New York University and serving as founding director and lead consultant for the Career Development Network, a network of over 30 nonprofit organizations that provide public high school students with career development and work readiness experiences.

RSVP to Jennifer Rothman at jrothman@nybg.org
Include “NYCMER program” in the subject line.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)

By Subway: 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street.
By Bus: M1, M2, M3, or M4

Free for NYCMER members
$5 for non-members

(Membership is $30 annually and may be purchased at the door)

NYCMER ushers in 2008 with an intimate panel discussion at the Center for Architecture. The ideas and perspectives presented are geared to inspire and introduce possible directions in museum education for the new year.

Each panelist will present a brief introduction, then pose a thought-provoking question to the audience based on the panelists’ current research or on new trends and theories in the museum field. The audience will break into groups and meet with the panel member that posed the question to discuss ideas further. We will reconvene to present new perspectives generated by discussion in each group.

NYCMER members: Free
Non-members: $5

Center for Architecture Foundation
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
aiany.org/centerforarchitecture

Directions:
536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd Street and Bleecker Street;
A, B, C, D, E, F or V trains to West 4th Street station.
Walk east along West 3rd Street and turn right on LaGuardia Place.

Pre-registration requested: Please RSVP with your name, title and contact info to Virgil Talaid at virgil.talaid@nyct.com and include “January 2008 NYCMER Program” in the subject line.

New York Modern on view at the Skyscraper Museum looks back at prophecies of the skyscraper city in the early 20th century when the first dreams of a fantastic vertical metropolis took shape. From the invention of the tall office building and high-rise hotels in the late 19th century, New York began to expand upward, and by 1900, the idea of unbridled growth and inevitably increasing congestion was lampooned in cartoons in the popular press and critiqued by prominent architects and urban reformers.

Free to NYCMER members; $5 non-NYCMER members

(Individual membership is $30 annually and may be purchased at the door.)

To RSVP email Dolores DeStefano at ddestefano@mobia.org.

Include “NYCMER program” in the subject line.

DIRECTIONS

The Skyscraper Museum is located at 39 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280.

The Museum shares a building with the Ritz Carlton in Battery Park City, at the southwestern tip of Manhattan. Please note: the entrance to the Museum is on the west side of the building, directly across from the entrance to the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

SUBWAY: 4 or 5 to Bowling Green, 1 to South Ferry or R/W to Whitehall Street

BUS: M9 and M20

Click on the image above for more information.

Free Admission.

Click here for the forum agenda.

The purpose of the forum is to encourage the development of new museum programs for immigrants living in the city. The 2000 census revealed that 2.9 million of the New York City’s 8.0 million residents were foreign-born, the largest number in the city’s history. This one day forum will bring together Museum Educators and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) currently working with or who are interested in working with immigrant communities to discuss ways to better serve New New Yorkers. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the common goals among the organizations and to network with others looking to begin partnerships.

This forum is presented by the Queens Museum of Art in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio, the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable (NYCMER), The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum, the Katonah Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Restoration Project and Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation.

In the spirit of collaboration, museums who attend are encouraged to donate one free tour or program to an attending CBO, following the forum. Please bring flyers and pamphlets about your organization, as there will be a designated area for participants to leave information about their free programs.

Free breakfast and lunch will be provided on site.

Location: El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
New York, NY, 10029
www.elmuseo.org

Pre-registration required: Please RSVP with your name, title and contact info to Gonzalo Casals at public_programs@elmuseo.org and include NYCMER Program in the subject line.

The new school year has brought many changes in the structure of the New York City Department of Education. Join us for a panel discussion with representatives from the Department of Education and education support organizations. Learn about the changes and how museums will benefit and can respond.

Please RSVP to Dolores DeStefano at ddestefano@mobia.org and include NYCMER Program in the subject line.

Directions
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
4 West 54th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue)
NY, NY 10019
Please note: This is the Education Building entrance on 54th Street, not the main museum entrance.

Subway: E or V to Fifth Avenue/53 Street; B, D, or F to 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller Center.

Bus: M1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to 53 Street

NYCMER members: Free

Non-members: $5

Enjoy planning exciting events?

Want to get more involved with NYCMER?

NYCMER is looking for a team of enthusiastic colleagues to help plan this annual, well-regarded conference.

Conference Committee members select the theme of the conference, organize panels and workshops, and ensure that the conference runs smoothly. It’s a great networking opportunity and a lot of fun!

If you are interested in being on this year’s Conference Committee, please contact NYCMER Vice-Chair Sandra Huber by Friday, October 12th at (212) 360-8243 or via email at sandra.huber@parks.nyc.gov.

Please give Sandra your name, full institutional affiliation and address, phone, e-mail, and preferred meeting day after work: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays.
We look forward to your participation in this project.

Greet autumn in the company of old friends and new museum colleagues at the very first NYCMER program of the year! Explore “Infinite Island: Contemporary Carribean Art”, which presents some eighty works made in the last six years that reflect the region’s dynamic mix of cultures, its diasporas, and its socio-political realities, all of which are constantly transforming themselves.

NYCMER’s mission is to provide a forum for museum education professionals to address issues of museum and educational interest, exchange and disseminate relevant information, and to explore and implement cooperative programming opportunities through roundtable discussions, workshops, seminars, symposia, professional development series and conferences.

Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Directions: 2 or 3 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
Member Price: Free
Nonmember Price: $5.00