Colorado Wyoming Association of Museums Professional Preconference Workshops, Thursday, May 12, 1994 Friday-Sunday, May 13-15, 1994 Holiday Inn Sheridan, Wyoming 21st Annual Meeting "The Importance of Being Artistic" Art Enhancing Museums The Colorado Wyoming Association of Museum's 21st annual meeting is upon us. The CWAM annual meeting is a series of informational seminars dedicated to helping update professionals in the museum field on current and new techniques and products applicable to them. The exchange and presentation of helpful, new and unique ideas, in a conference setting, will be given by experts from many fields along with guest speakers from a number of diverse backgrounds. Vendors to display and promote their services and products relevant to museums, archives, and libraries are invited to participate in this year's meeting. Those with a specific technological product to demonstrate are especially encouraged to attend. Workshops and various session titles: Scale Models and Dioramas: We Hate 'Em But the Public Loves 'Em Museum Boards The Museum Palette: Seize What You See Museum Audiences: Stalking The Elusive Species >From Living Room Walls to Exhibit Halls: Creative Approaches to Involving the Community Successful Volunteer Programs: How to Recruit, Train and Keep a Volunteer Group The Fine Art of Collections Registration You Cat Do It! Video Production for Museums Artful Solutions: Keeping Down Pollution - Health and Safety in the Museum Environment The "Rosebud" Phenomenon: Artifact Specific Exhibitions Great Expectations: A Design Dialogue To Party or Not: Fund Raising in the 90's Gimmicks Are Good: Using Interactive Techniques to Best Advantage Constructive Conflict The Art of the Interview Designing Exhibits Without Spending a Fortune Look Who's Talking: What Artists Are Trying to Say Figuratively Speaking: Mannequins On a Low Budget There's Art In Them Thar Collections: Mining History Collections For Art Objects How to Go to Press Without Being Put Through the Wringer Controlling Your Environment: The Historic Structure as Gallery Using Art to Teach When You Can't Touch If you are interested in CWAM's 21st annual meeting, or would just like more information, please contact either Richard Sweet, Curatorial Assistant or Robert Hoge, Curator at the American Numismatic Association, 818 N. Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80903-3279. Voice 719-632-2646 FAX 719-634-4085 Internet [log in to unmask] For conference registration contact: Joanne Kudla CWAM Treasurer P O Box 1000 Cody, Wyoming 82414