Info Session on Stewarding Collections Through Institutional Change: The Museum Facilitation Framework
Collecting organizations of all types and sizes are facing financial constrictions, staffing shortages, and existential questions of future longevity. Occasionally (and perhaps increasingly), these challenges lead institutions to close, merge with other organizations, undertake large strategic deaccessioning initiatives, or otherwise significantly alter their mission, facilities, and/or operations. Through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), CCAHA is launching a new initiative, the Museum Facilitation Framework, with the goal of helping collections stewards effectively incorporate collections care into challenging discussions around institutional repositioning.
In this webinar, you’ll meet the team spearheading the project, hear illustrative examples and research, learn about the project’s proposed content and ideological framework, and learn how you can be involved.
If you would like to be in touch about this project, please provide your contact information here. We will provide more specifics on how to be involved during the webinar.
This webinar addresses IMLS’ National Leadership Grants for Museums Goal 3/Objective 3.1: developing and implementing tools that will build capacity across multiple institutions by helping them facilitate access, management, and preservation of museum collections.
About our speakers
As CCAHA’s Preservation Specialist, Katie Lowe consults and educates on environmental management, collections move planning, space planning, general preventive care, emergency preparedness and response, Integrated Pest Management, and more. Katie has 7 years of experience in museums and additional backgrounds in mediation, social work and education, both of which inform her unique approach to preventive conservation. She is Vice President for the board of the Museum Council of Greater Philadelphia, a member of the American Association for State and Local History’s Field Service Alliance, and a Committee Member on the American Institute for Conservation's Emergency Response Committee. She received her BA from Ursinus College and her MA in Museum Studies and History (with a certification in Historic Preservation) from UNC Greensboro.
Sarah Pharaon is Principal at Dialogic Consulting. Through Dialogic, she has led internal focus groups in planning for the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, facilitation training for MOCA Los Angeles and the Philbrook Museum of Art (OK) and facilitated for the White House Summit, “Museums Respond: Strategies for Countering Antisemitism and Hate,” as well as the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian and Winterthur. Prior to Dialogic, Sarah directed consultation services for the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Sarah worked as the Director of Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and was the founding curator of the Arab American National Museum. She serves on the American Jewish Museums Advisory Council and the Emeritus Council of the American Association of State and Local History.