MPMA Hotel discount ends today: Price goes WAY up Rooms going fast: Reserve your hotel room TODAY at 402-474-7474 Shut out? Ask about MPMA's Roommate Service: Contact Erin Barrette at [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) ******* MPMA's Keynoters MPMA Headliners: Ford Bell, Beth Merritt, Randy Cohen, Daniel Veneciano Ford Bell has just been added as a speaker. He will give an update on the National Museum scene. Randy Cohen will give details on how YOU can fight back with facts when your budget is about to get cut. Beth Merritt will tell you what the future looks like for museums and changes to be prepared for. Daniel Veneciano will tell you how his museum changed its structure to meet challenges and the future MPMA's 2013 Conference Keynoters: Randy Cohen: The Arts and Economic Prosperity Study The arts are big business in the U.S.-supporting jobs, generating government revenue, attracting a 21st century workforce- and are a cornerstone of tourism. Our speaker knows this very well. Randy Cohen is Vice President of Research and Policy for the Americans for the Arts, the nonprofit organization advancing the arts in America, and has authored an important economic study for all of the arts. According to Cohen, arts events are magnets for tourists and local merchants reap the financial rewards of the increased spending they bring to local economies. General Session and ArtsCom Lunch Elizabeth Merritt: A Glimpse of the Future What emergent trends are shaping society and what challenges or opportunities do they present for museums? The nature of philanthropy is shifting, with donors increasingly wanting concrete evidence of the difference their dollars have made. Technology presents stunning opportunities to create personalized cultural and educational experiences, even as it threatens to overwhelm us with the ability to hyper-connect to the world. And an ever denser urban environment is changing the way people live, work, travel and relate to their environment. Elizabeth Merritt, founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, will present a graphic overview of the American Alliance of Museum's annual forecasting report and how the museum community is responding to it. Leadership Lunch Daniel Veneciano: Institutional Transformation This talk is about reinvigorating a museum's purpose and role in society through institutional transformation. The types of transformation considered include rethinking the basic model of a museum; reconsidering the role of museums in society; and designing an organizational structure that heightens a museum's responsiveness to growing expectations regarding education and civic engagement. In the course of this process, the traditional department-based model for museum organization cedes to a centers-based structure designed to enhance a museum's service to and relevance within its community. This is a timely discussion and a big year of changes for the Sheldon Museum as Director Daniel Veneciano is involved with celebrating the building's 50th anniversary (a Philip Johnson building) and tasked with imagining the museum's future to begin the next 50 years. Closing Lunch Visit mpma.net to find out how to register. Register online at https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1255358 MPMA NEW! Equipment CO-OP - save a ton of $$$ MPMA: A Ten-state museum network Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming Mark your calendar: 2013 MPMA Conference: September 30-October 3 Lincoln, Nebraska 2014 MPMA Conference: September 28 - October 2 Aspen / Snowmass, Colorado Mountain-Plains Museums Association 7110 West David Drive Littleton, Colorado 80128-5404 303-979-9358 www.mpma.net FAX 303-973-3672 ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).