For Immediate Release
September 2000
AFA ANNOUNCES PROGRAM FOR DIRECTORS FORUM 2000
The American Federation of Arts' seventh annual Directors Forum, a program
for directors of small and medium-sized art museums, takes place in New York
City on November 5-7, 2000. This year the program is titled "Tried and
True/Unknown and New: Forging a Dialogue," and features four sessions led by
eminent guest speakers exploring a variety of timely subjects, as well as
gallery tours and receptions.
The Directors Forum provides a singular occasion for colleagues from across
the country and abroad to meet formally and informally with one another and
with representatives from the art, business, academic, and museum
communities. Past participants have lauded the AFA for providing this
opportunity to network and reflect on issues of common concern.
Sunday, November 5
National Arts Club
Registration and Opening Reception 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Opening Dinner 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Welcome: Gilbert H. Kinney, President, AFA
Guest speaker: Lowery Stokes Sims, Director, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Monday, November 6
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Session 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Common Ground: Building Effective Collaborations
Frances Hesselbein, President and Board Chairman, Peter F. Drucker
Foundation for Nonprofit Management; Elizabeth Wright Millard, Executive
Director, The Forum for Contemporary Art; Laura Willumsen, Executive
Director, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Gallery Tour 11:00-11:45 a.m.
Session 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Infatuation, Apprehension, and Misconception: Museums and the Media
Michael Brenson, freelance critic and curator; Jeanne Collins, President,
Jeanne Collins & Associates; David D'Arcy, Correspondent, The Art Newspaper;
András Szántó, Ph.D., Deputy Director, National Arts Journalism Program;
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Susan Lubowsky Talbott,
Director, Des Moines Art Center
Gallery Tour 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Reception at the home of Peter Norton, art collector 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 7
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Session
9:00-11:15 a.m.
Getty Leadership Institute Workshop: The Productive Uses of Conflict in
Teams
David Bradford, faculty member, MMI, and senior lecturer, Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University
Gallery Tour 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
National Academy of Design Museum
Luncheon/ Take 5: The Exhibitions Marketplace 12:30 - 2:15
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Session 2:30-4:00 p.m.
"Fear of Art: Creating a Confident Audience"
Philip Yenawine, Co-Director, Visual Understanding in Education (VUE)
Gallery Tour 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Closing Reception at Hirschl & Adler Galleries 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
A special feature, "Take 5: The Exhibitions Marketplace," has been added to
the Forum this year. On Tuesday, during luncheon at the National Academy of
Design, Forum participants are invited to make a five-minute presentation
describing a traveling exhibition organized by their institution that is
available for booking.
Directors Forum is supported in part by The Liman Foundation. Additional
sponsors include Fortress FAE Worldwide, Philip Morris Companies Inc.,
TIAA-CREF, Christie's, Art Loss Register, Economic Stewardship, Inc., and
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
The Directors Forum is open to all full-time directors of not-for-profit art
institutions who are not members of the Association of Art Museum Directors
(AAMD). The registration fee is $325 for AFA members and $375 for
nonmembers and includes all conference materials, sessions, special events,
and selected meals. A block of rooms is reserved at a special rate at the
Shelburne Murray Hill Hotel, 303 Lexington Avenue, New York City.
The 2000 Program Committee includes: Arthur R. Blumenthal, Ph.D., Director,
Cornell Fine Arts Museum; Katherine B. Crum, Director, Mills College Art
Museum; Joan Davidow, Director, Arlington Museum of Art; Gregory F. Harper,
Executive Director, Cape Museum of Fine Arts; and Lesley Wright, Ph.D.,
Director, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College.
For more information about the Directors Forum and registration (open until
October 23), please call John W. Nichols, Director of Museum Services, AFA,
at
212/988-7700, ext. 41. The Directors Forum accommodates up to 100
participants and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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For more information, members of the press may call:
Lisbeth Mark or Stephanie Ruggiero
Communications Department
American Federation of Arts
tel: 212/988-7700 fax: 212/861-2487 email: [log in to unmask]
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