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Women We Admire: Forum One’s Molly Mattessich Named a Top 50 Leader

Forum One

Her technical and management experience working with many of our clients, such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and The Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation , has informed the way that she supports staff and sets up systems for success. Molly’s leadership has been critical to Forum One’s success.

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Let's Be Honest

Museum 2.0

Many museum conferences have a moment of unfettered camaraderie and unvarnished joy--that moment is at karaoke. Because museum people are the most creative, devoted, and scrappy people in the world. As the museum field eventually bounces back, there will be pressure for us to accept not only the pre-covid status quo, but even less.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

Qgiv

These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. Q: Will it help to become a volunteer? My mind was a sponge.

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A Tribute To Simone Joyaux

Bloomerang

Tenacious, Intelligent, Resourceful, Passionate, Insightful, Caring, Determined, and Fun are among the hundreds of words used to describe my friend and mentor, Simone Joyaux, since her passing last week. She implanted a love of France, history and what true friendships are all about. Simone was absolutely one in a million!

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Fund their work!

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

Have Fun - Do Good

Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. I do art that can be very universal, to anyone." But, art is universal like that.

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