Please forgive the cross posting.

I have had a few requests to extend the deadline for the NYCMER Call for
Proposals.  The deadline has been extended to Wednesday, February 7th, 2001.

Thank you for the submissions to date.



CALL FOR PROPOSALS
New York City Museum Educators Roundtable
Annual Conference 2001

Fresh Eyes: New Approaches to Museums and Education

Date: Monday, June 11, 2001

Site:   Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue @89th Street, New York City

NYCMER's Annual Conference 2001 will be a day of dynamic discussions and
hands-on experiences about issues essential to the advancement of the
museum education field.  Participants along with moderators, speakers, and
panelists, will generate ideas and participate in workshops to look at
museum education in new ways and to encourage change within the field.  In
addition, NYCMER will publish and disseminate the results to help foster
the realization of the concepts germinated at this conference.

We encourage everyone, from senior professionals to initiates in the field,
to join in a day of discussion, rumination, and application. During this
conference we will refine our goals and roles as museum educators and go
beyond the "nuts and bolts" of our field, armed with ideas and plans to
move forward and create change.


Themes:

Conference themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Creating and Catalyzing Change: What issues need to be addressed in our
field?  How can we make change happen?  What has been/is being done that
really works?

- Building on Successes and Learning from Failures: How can museum
educators learn from model programs and exhibitions?  What failures have
eventually led to successful outcomes?

- Creating and Building a Museum Community: How can we create a
collaborative environment within the museum and fostering a collaborative
environment between museum educators, curators and other museum professionals?

- Interdisciplinary Aspects of Museum Education: What happens when
educators act as curators, exhibition evaluators, fundraisers, exhibition
designers, social workers, etc. (and vice versa)?  When have exhibitions
and programs acted in a complementary, rather than supplementary, fashion
with each other?  What effect did this have upon the visitor?

- The Museum and the Community: What is the changing nature of the
relationships between the museum and the community?  How is community
defined?  What are some successful collaborations between the museum and
the community (community organizations, schools, political action groups,
etc.)?

- New Media and the Museum: How can we successfully integrate technology
into our practice?  Into programming?  Into exhibitions?

- Evaluation:  How can evaluation help our field to become an agent of
change?  How do we begin to implement evaluation in our everyday
programming and exhibitions?



GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

Proposals are due by February 7th, 2001.


Session Format

Please determine the optimal format for your presentation from the
following three categories, bearing in mind that all sessions should
actively incorporate audience participation:

- Panel Discussion
A chairperson and two or three panelists offer multiple perspectives on a
single idea, model, or theory. Should include time for breakout groups or
roundtable discussions with concrete problem solving goals as well as a
sharing/report-back component. (For example, discussing one participant's
institution and forming a list of ways it could be more involved with its
community.)

- Interactive Workshop
Run by one or two facilitators. Completely experiential in format.
Seventy-five minutes in length. Should include breakout
groups/brainstorming and sharing/report-back component.

-Poster Session
At least one presenter should be on site to discuss materials displayed,
which should showcase a working theory or model in the field. Will be on
display for a dedicated sixty-minute session during the conference, and
left up for the day. Should include explanatory handouts; should not
require audio-visual support.




PROPOSAL FORM FOR NYCMER Annual Conference 2001


Fresh Eyes: New Approaches to Museums and Education

Please complete the following form and send with accompanying abstract

via mail to:
Felicia Liss, NYCMER Annual Conference 2001 Committee Chair
Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership
10 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010

via fax to:
Attn: Felicia Liss
212-727-1702

via e-mail to:
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Session Format (check one)

Panel Discussion
Interactive Workshop
Poster Session


Session Theme:


Session Content/Logistics

TITLE:



CONTACT INFORMATION:

A.      Chairperson

Name and Title:
Institution:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:

B.      Other Participants

Name and Title:
Institution:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Telephone:
Fax:
E-mail:

Name and Title:
Institution:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
Telephone:
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Name and Title:
Institution:
Address:
City/State/Zip:
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SESSION ABSTRACT:

Please attach an abstract (no more than two typed pages in length) which
outlines the session goals, provides a description of how the session will
run, and specifies any handouts to be provided.

Felicia Liss
Museum Education Specialist
Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership
7 West 22nd Street
New York, New York 10010
(212) 989-2624, ext. 308
Fax (212) 727-1702

Visit us at www.skolnick.com

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