PANEL PARTICIPANTS ANNOUNCED FOR MESC PROGRAM, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2005, PALM SPRINGS DESERT MUSEUM, HISTORY RETOLD ? CULTURE SPECIFIC MUSEUMS
? A culture specific museum that has just completed its first year in its own building
? A culture museum that is in the midst of a major capital and new building campaign
? A cultural center that has high hopes but no building
? A cultural center that is hosting a blockbuster national exhibit about science. . .
Shared missions? Shared visions? Diverse solutions to interpreting culture?
Join four leaders from dynamic Southern California culture specific museums:
Be inspired ? by leaders who have turned visions into reality
Learn - what their experience in developing new ways to tell history and share art can mean for your institution and your professional challenges
Share ? your experiences and questions in a collegial atmosphere
Establish new partners ? to create leveraged approaches to meet your institutional mission
Our panel:
Joseph Beaver, Executive Director, Black Historical & Cultural Society of the Coachella Valley, Palm Springs
Activist and community organizer, for the past 19 years he has also served as the chairman of the Coachella Valley Martin Luther King Commemoration Committee. Mr. Beaver has been a consular officer in the foreign service, a member of the first group of Black Marines during W.W.II, a participant in the Civil Rights movement, and has served as an advisory board member on numerous community organizations. He lectures on topics such as black history and culture, civil rights, foreign policy, African Liberation, and other topics.
Mildred Browne, Chairman, Board of Directors, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, Palm Springs
Bringing the vision of a cultural center to a reality, Ms Browne is a founder of the Aqua Caliente Cultural museum. She is an enrolled member of the Agua Caliente Tribe and has served as Vice Chairman on Tribal Council as well as member on numerous other tribal committees. Mildred, affectionately called Millie, has presented papers at professional museum conferences and has been featured speaker for many other organizations and events.
Dorothy Mackendrick, Associate Education Director, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Ten years in the Skirball?s Education Department, Ms. Mackendrick works with school groups and families visiting from across the Los Angeles region. Her interest is in finding real connections between cultures, while celebrating the differences that make communities unique. In addition to managing all aspects of student gallery programs at the Skirball, she has created and manages a yearlong series of culturally important performance programs for students of all grades and enjoys looking for new ways to bring organizations together to create quality programming.
Pauline Wong, Museum Educator, Chinese American Museum, El Pueblo Historical Monument, Los Angeles
A doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Ms. Wong?s area of research is critical museum studies, cultural studies, and comparative education. Her research explores the issues of cultural production and display, multiculturalism, and power dynamics in museums. She is published in The Comparative Education Review and Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies and is working on an edited book about the role of women in museum leadership.
Our breakout session facilitators include:
? Suellen Cheng, Curator at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument and the Executive Director of Chinese American Museum
? OJay Vanegas, Education Director, Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
? Xavier Cortez, Education Programs Director, Palm Springs Desert Museum
? Dorothy Mackendrick, Associate Education Director, Skirball Cultural Center
For more details on meeting visit http://mesconline.org/html/calendar/index.html
Register: Advance registration is recommended. Mail registration no later than January 28, 2005.
After Jan. 28, FAX registration form and pay at the door.
Please include
Name:
Title:
Institution:
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Indicate if you want a box lunch - $6
Specify: 1. vegetarian or 2. non-vegetarian
Mail registration form and check to:
Patricia Ancona, LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Fax: 323-857-4729
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Please make checks payable to MESC
Fee: $15 MESC members
$20 non-members
$ 6 Box lunch
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The Museum Educators of Southern California (MESC) is a nonprofit organization for museum professionals whose work is focused on museum audiences. MESC strives to ensure that museums place education at the center of all of their activities. MESC is dedicated to audience advocacy and enhancing visitor's learning opportunities and experiences. MESC works to bring greater diversity to the museum education field, strengthens the role of museum educators within institutions, and provides professional training and development using current research.
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- Creating a professional network for its members
- Striving to reflect the diversity of society in museum audiences and within the profession
- Providing training and development at all levels of experience
- Provoking ongoing dialogue of intellectual interest to the members
- Encouraging research and dissemination on the theory and practice of museum education
- Increasing awareness among members of the variety of museum resources
- Serving as an advocate for museum educators.
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