Community Engagement & Impact

Museum Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye for Sustained Community Engagement

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Addressing community needs and interests as partners and collaborators creates trusting relationships. Over time, these relationships can influence and even transform museums. This session probes essential community engagement practices, focusing on holistic, long-term commitments that are integrated into every level of an organization. Learn how to build and sustain internal and external relationships, staff accountability and thoughtful succession, and projects that will lead to transformative growth.

Learning Objectives:

• Define sustained community relationships that inform museum practices for exhibitions and programs over time.
• Demonstrate the importance of being strategic in growing community involvement that influences internal change.
• Identify strategies for sustaining community relationships with an organizational culture that addresses staff accountability, succession, and the involvement of museum stakeholders. This includes appropriate evaluation and assessment practices.

Moderator(s)

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  Darcie Fohrman

  Director
  Darcie Fohrman Museum Exhibitions

Presenter(s)

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  Janeen Bryant

  Founder, Principal Consultant
  Facilitate Movement
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  Barbara Henry

  Principal
  Barbara Henry & Associates
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  Evelyn Orantes

  Independent Curator, Educator and Community Engagement Strategist
  Evelyn Orantes Consulting