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MS009: Guest Curators: The Exhibition Team plus Another ***NEW*** (short course)
              (Dates TBD)
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              Price: $95     [Add to Cart]   [View Cart]
              Instructor: Lin Nelson-Mayson

Description:
Considering supplementing staff for your next exhibition with an independent curator or outside expert? Many museums work with guest curators who are knowledgeable about a particular topic or who will enhance limited staff. What is the relationship of this "outsider" to the staff? How do you agree upon expectations and duties that are best for both parties? This short course will cover the basics of working with guest curators - who they are, establishing clear expectations, and developing a successful collaboration.

Logistics:
Participants in Guest Curators will read literature and participate in two one-hour chats to discuss how an outside curator works within your museum. Each student should read course materials and prepare questions or comments to share with the other students in the chat. This is a mini-course and takes no more than 10 hours of a student's time. This is an opportunity to brain-storm with colleagues about what works and what doesn't work.

To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org

The Instructor:
Lin Nelson-Mayson, with over 25 years of museum experience at small and large institutions, is director of the University of Minnesota's Goldstein Museum of Design. Prior to that, she was the director of ExhibitsUSA, a nonprofit exhibition touring organization that annually tours over 30 art and humanities exhibitions across the country. For five years, she was a coordinator or judge for the American Association of Museums' Excellence in Exhibitions Competition. She currently serves on the exhibition committee for the National Sculpture Society. Ms. Nelson-Mayson has extensive experience with the planning, preparation, research and installation of exhibitions. Ms Nelson-Mayson's experience includes teaching museum studies and museology courses. Her particular interest is the needs of small museums.

Her credentials include the following;

An MFA from The Ohio State University in sculpture and critical writing
A BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in painting.
Work as a curator for the Ross County Historic Society (Chillicothe, Ohio), the Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi), the Columbia Museum of Art (South Carolina), and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

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Updated 16 Feb 2010