**Mexico Seminar #TerritoriosInexplorado Recap**
On October 9 – 10th, ARCS and the National Institute of Fine Art (INBA) of Mexico hosted Territorios Inexplorados (Unexplored Territories), the first seminar for registrars and collections specialists in Latin America at the National Museum of Art in Mexico City. INBA oversees cultural programming in all areas of the arts including 11 museums throughout Mexico. With over 100 attendees and 20 speakers, the seminar encompassed a wide array of themes from social media, cataloging new media and contemporary art, to documenting cultural patrimony.
The head of INBA, Lydia Camacho, officially inaugurated the event and the director of visual arts, Magdalena Zavala, oversaw the sessions each day. From ARCS, co-founder and president emeritus, Jacqueline Cabrera and new board member John Thomas Robinette III represented the ARCS.
Despite the recent devastating earthquakes that struck the country attendance remained high, demonstrating a strong desire for the organization of this professional community in Mexico. Some speakers, in their roles as conservators or registrars, had to immediately return after their talk to their work restoring or inspecting public monuments and collections damaged as a result of the natural disaster. Still, others spoke of their roles in mitigating the effects of the earthquake on their institutions.
The seminar ended with ARCS and INBA committed to working together again in the future to further galvanize the professional museum community in the country.
**#ARCSConf 2017 Reminders**
#ARCSConf 2017 is fast approaching and we hope you’re as excited about it as we are!
Our conference app is available in the Apple and Android app stores. Including a schedule of events, list of speakers and sponsors, an interactive map of the venue, a map of Vancouver, and a messaging function, it will make keeping up with everything that much easier.
If you’re on Twitter, join us in live tweeting from the conference sessions. Use the hashtag #ARCSConf in your tweets.
Request for Proposals
The Western Museums Association is requesting proposals for their next conference, being held in Tacoma, Washington October 21-24, 2018. With the theme of INSPIRE, The WMA is requesting session proposals that address how museums can inspire their staff, community, and the world to take action, work towards change, and promote unity. Deadline is November 17, 2017. For more information: Western Museum Association RFP
http://www.westmuse.org/RFP
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