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New to the Field? Want to Attend the AAM Annual Meeting for Free?

Museum 2.0

Since I posted my " how I got here " post earlier this week, I've received lots of emails and comments from museum professionals, old and (mostly) young, about their own paths and struggles to get into the museum field. YOU MUST BE: working or trying to work in the museum field with less than five years of museum experience.

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Equity in Arts Funding: We're Not There Yet. We're Not Even Close.

Museum 2.0

There's the barrier of the concern that this work is "social work" and not art--and therefore doesn't belong in a museum or a theater. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston. He got to see the museum process from the inside.

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