Uncommon Classroom: Accessing the Museum
Sunday April 25, 1999
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College
9:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast: King Building
9:30 am
Opening Remarks and Introductions: King Lecture Hall # 306
Sherry Cromwell-Lacy, Conference Co-Chair, Independent Curator, ACUMG Board member
Les Reker, Conference Co-chair, Director Payne Gallery of Moravian College, ACUMG Board member
Peter Tirrell, ACUMG President, Associate Director, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
Welcome
Dr. Sharon F. Patton, John G. W. Cowles Director, Allen Memorial Art Museum
Keynote Address: The University Museum in the New Century
Dr. Harold Skramstad, Art & Humanities Consultant and Advisor
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
I. The Academic Museum and Interdisciplinary Education: A Collection Driven Approach
Stephan Jost, Assistant Curator of Western Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum
II. Electronic Publishing at the Allen Memorial Art Museum: From CD ROM to the Web
Jenny Wilker, Publications Editor, Allen Memorial Art Museum
11:45 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
I. Team Teaching in the University Museum: Collaborations Between Faculty and Museum Educators
Diana Matthias, Curator of Academic Programs, Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame
II. Museum-based Courses in the Oberlin College Curriculum
Charles Mason, Curator of Asian Art, and Amy Kurlander, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum
12:45 pm
Buffet Lunch, Oberlin Inn, 7 N. Main
1:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
I. Practicum in Museum Education, presentation & roundtable
Diana Matthias, Curator of Academic Programs, Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame
II. Allen Memorial Art Museum Curator’s Tour (assemble in Museum foyer)
III. Intermuseum Conservation Association Tour with Albert Albano, Executive Director (sign-up required)
IV. Frank Lloyd Wright Weltzheimer/Johnson House Tour (sign-up & ticket-$ required)
2:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
I. Allen Memorial Art Museum Curator’s Tour (assemble in Museum foyer)
II. Intermuseum Conservation Association Tour with Albert Albano, Executive Director (sign-up required)
III. Frank Lloyd Wright Weltzheimer/Johnson House Tour (sign-up & ticket-$ required)
3:30 pm
Exhibition and Closing Reception
Uncommon Objects, (The Museum & Gallery Store) New Union for the Arts, 39 S. Main
5:00 pm
Exhibition and Closing Reception
Bus departure to Cleveland Convention Center (board at New Union for the Arts)