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Dynamic Art Museums in Small Cities

The Board of Trustees of the Kamloops Art Gallery, www.kag.bc.ca  a
not-for-profit art museum located in the interior of British Columbia in
western Canada, met recently to consider its future and to address our
considerable responsibilities to various communities.  

The Board hopes to develop a new paradigm, an ideal model that
emphasizes the compatibility of popular success, scholarship and
museological responsibilities that can be used to benchmark our future
outcomes and achievements.  It also intends to look at the vital and
critical role of the "small city gallery" within the global environment.

To these ends, our Trustees would like to know about art galleries in
similar small communities with a population between 50,000 and 150,000.
It is inviting museum professionals and scholars to define what
constitutes a successful small city art museum.  How, for example, are
historical/traditional and contemporary art programming integrated? What
are the inherent responsibilities that come with being recognized as a
rigorous institution committed to research and scholarship?  What is the
potential of small art museums as learning hubs, especially given the
opportunities available through the use of new technologies? And lastly,
the Board is trying to determine how art museums make a difference in
their own immediate and diverse communities and how success is defined
in these terms. 

The first part of this multi-faceted project is to compile a list of
small-city art galleries world-wide that are recognized as leaders in
their field. The next step is to refine this list and prepare case
studies of 20 to 25 of these institutions for inclusion in a publication
about the challenges and possibilities facing the small city gallery.   

We would appreciate receiving your opinion on the most outstanding
galleries based on the objectives of the study outlined in this email.
Please forward them to [log in to unmask] 

We would also appreciate if you would take the time to forward this
inquiry to your email list of colleagues in order to expand the search
for outstanding art galleries in small cities. Please include your full
name, title and work affiliation for reference and follow-up.

Thank you for your time.

Jann LM Bailey
Executive Director, Kamloops Art Gallery
101-465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada V2C 2A9 t
250 3772412 / f 250 828 0662 / www.kag.bc.ca

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