sábado, 28 de abril de 2012

Bienvenidos a la 106 Reunión de la AAM. ¡En español!



¡Hola!. He estado bastante ocupado durante esta primavera en Madison, Wisconsin, el corazón del Midwest. Esta noche estoy empacando para mi primer viaje al 106° Reunión Anual de la Asociación Americana de Museos (AAM), que empieza hoy sábado en Minneapolis, Minesotta. Como saben, la AAM es la mayor organización gremial y actor principal de la industria del museo de Estados Unidos, y creo que el encuentro puede ser del interés de todo aquel interesado en la industria cultural.
Y en el twitter, @jorgezeballos
Podrán seguir la Reunión. Ver el interesante programa y conocer a los seis chilenos que estarán allí. Atento a sus preguntas y sugerencias, les saluda desde Madison, Jorge
¿Qué es lo que me lleva a 104 AAM? Bueno, este año colaboro en un proyecto muy interesante: “Los Museos y su público. Evaluación y análisis de la comunicación y gestión de las audiencias museísticas en Chile, 2012-2014”. Una extensa investigación Fondecyt sobre usos de audiencias que encabeza, entre otros, quien fuera mi profesor de Fundamentos del periodismo en la Usach, el profesor Cristian Antoine. La idea es aprovechar la instancia para tomar contacto con las ideas y tendencias en el campo del Museum Work y Communication Museum. También voy a estar despachando crónicas de las jornadas, y manteniendo mi twitter @jorgezeballos en función de la Reunión. Debo agradecer a Dewey Blanton, Director de Comunicaciones de la AAM por su gestión.
El programa de la Reunión y Exposición es simplemente apabullante. El detalle se puede descargar aquí: programaAAM2012. Pero como narran los asiduos a esta Reunión, lo que entusiasma es la calidad de la conversación que tiene lugar en sesiones, pasillos y stands de la Exposición. Y también, las inevitables cervezas ly hamburguesas locales, para luego “tipín” 9:00 pm, darse a la fiesta de inauguración en el Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. El concepto yankee es claro, coincidir con algunas personas realmente maravillosas, adalides en pasión e ingenio para la industria del museo, y durante los cuatro días de la conferencia cruzar ideas, provocar otras nuevas y darse a trabajar en hacerlas germinar.
Con esto en mente, si hablas español (o no), ven a buscarme en la conferencia para que podamos charlar o sigue la Reunión en #AAM2012. Cuéntame tus esperanzas para el futuro de la disciplina. Dime por qué has venido a Minneapolis, que es lo que esperas encontrar en la Reunión y lo que podemos hacer cuando estemos de vuelta en nuestros países. De modo que siéntete libre de ‘tweetearme’ y nos juntamos.
Será una semana ocupada, pues el viernes parto a Nueva York para asistir la Conferencia Internacional “Jews and the Left” que organiza el legendario YIVO (Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut) y Co-presentada por la American Jewish Historical Society, pueden ver el programa, aquí. Mientras, nos vemos en Minneapolis o en twitter, un abrazo a todos,
Jorge Z.
Anoto a continuación la lista de asistentes internacionales, “por si acaso” alguien desea que les consulte algo. Por razones comprensibles, empiezo por los chilenos.
Annual Meeting Fellowship Recipients International
Primero los seis chilenos:
Nicolas Bar, cultural attache, Embassy of Chile
Sandra Gutierrez, head of photographic archive, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Santiago
Soledad Novoa, curator, National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, Santiago
Lelia Matilde Perez Valdes, director, Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace, Santiago, Chile
Maria Jose Umana Altamirano, art historian, Museo De La Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile
Marianne Wacquez, conservator, National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, Santiago
El resto:
Karen Melisa Alamo-Castro, executive director, Espacio Interactivo la Rodadora, Juarez, Mexico.
Rafael Alas Vasquez, director of programs, Museo del Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), San Salvador, El Salvador.
Paola Araiza-Bolanos, assistant director, Galeria de Pacacio Nacional, DF Centro Wistonio, Mexico.
Yadel Arechiga Gonzalez, education director, Trompo Magico Museo Interactivo, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Nicolas Bar, cultural attache, Embassy of Chile.
Bundkhorol Batjargal, deputy director & manager, Kharkhorum Museum of Ovorkhangai Province, Uvur Khangai Province, Mongolia.
Juan Carlos Burga Campodonico, architect, exhibition designer, Museo De Arte De Lima, Lima, Peru.
Miriam Carilla-Barragan, museum educator, Universum Science Museum, Mexico City.
Renata Carleial De Casimiro, architect, Brazilian Institute of Museums, Rio de Janeiro.
Americo Castilla, president, Fundación TyPA - Teoría y Práctica de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Oscar Ramon Centurion Frontanilla, project manager, president, Museums & Archives of Migrations, ICOM_Paraguay, Asuncion, Paraguay.
Gabriel Ciniglio, director museography, Museo del Canal Interoceanico de Panama, Panama City.
Moraima Clavijo Colom, director, National Fine Arts Museum, Havana, Cuba.
Gonzolo Maria Conte Mac Donell, program coordinator, Memoria Abierta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Bhesh Narayan Dahal, Director, National Museum, Bagamati Zone, Nepal.
Wayde Davy, deputy director, South Africa Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg.
Erika, De Uslar, Assistant Director of Special Projects, Interactive Museum of Economics (MIDE), Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Victor Echeverria, chief curator, Museo del Canal Interoceanico de Panama, Panama City.
Shaimaa El Sayed Khalil, outreach coordinator, Discoverama, Heliopolis, Egypt.
Carmen Gaitan, museum director, Museo Nacional De San Carlos, Mexico City.
Natasha Barzaghi Geenen, international relations advisor, Pinacoteca Do Estado De Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Cecelia Genel, director, National Museum of Viceroyalty-INAH, Tepotzotlan, Mexico.
Máximo Gómez Noda, chief, department of curation, National Fine Arts Museum, Havana, Cuba.
Sandra Gutierrez, head of photographic archive, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Santiago.
Sara Hashem, founder and CEO, Discoverama, Cairo, Egypt.
Boubacar Hassane Oumarou, project manager & liaison, Boubou Hama National Museum, Niamey, Niger.
Ingy Helmi, arts coordinator, Discoverama, Cairo, Egypt.
Goranka Horjan, general director, Museums of Hrvatsko Zagorje, Donja Stubica, Croatia.
Nohora Elizabeth Hoyos, executive director, Maloka Interactive Science Center, Bogata, Colombia.
Myandas Jambaldorj, deputy director & marketing manager, Mongolian Museum of Natural History, Ulaanbaatar.
Nestor Kahoun, museum conservator, curator, National Museum, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Dania Khasawneh, exhibit enhancement coordinator, Children's Museum Jordan, Amman.
Linus Kingi, chief museum security officer, National Museum Lagos, Nigeria.
Alessandra Labate Rosso, registrar/collections management, Expomus – Exposições, Museus, Projetos Culturais, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Ana Maria Leitão Vieira, museologist, Museu Da Pessoa, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
William Lopez Rosas, assistant professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Bogota, Colombia.
Diego Matte, director, Museo Historico Nacional, Bogota, Columbia.
Silvia Miranda Meira, PhD Brazilian Art History, Brazilian Contemporary Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil.
Laura Mendivil, institutional development coordinator, Interactive Museum of Economics (MIDE), Toluca, Mexico.
Gabriela Meza Orihuela, institutional development coordinator, Interactive Museum of Economics (MIDE), Toluca, Mexico.
Elena Blanca Molina-Cerpa, chief of projects, SERPA-Lima, Barranco, Peru.
Soledad Novoa, curator, National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, Santiago.
Maria Isabel Orendain de Ortiz, director, Museo de Paleontologia de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Renata Sant Anna Pereira, educator, Museum of Contemporary Art-USP, São Paulo, Brazil.
Lelia Matilde Perez Valdes, director, Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace, Santiago, Chile.
Eduardo Ramos, strategic alliances coordinator, Maloka Interactive Science Center, Bogata, Colombia.
Kenisha Rowe-Ramsay, assistant curator, Institute of Jamaica, Portmore, Jamaica.
Maria Sanchez Soler, director, Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, CONACULTA , Mexico, D.F.
Ariun Sanjaajamts, independent consultant, Mongolia.
Andrea Del Carmen Terron Gomez, Ph.D candidate, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, Ibaraki-shi, Guatemala.
Josephine Muthoni Thang'Wa, development manager, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.
Paola Thompson-Rubio, student, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City.
Maria Jose Umana Altamirano, art historian, Museo De La Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile.
Marianne Wacquez, conservator, National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, Santiago.
Ahmed Zekaria Aubaker, senior curator, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Diversity
Candice Anderson, executive director, Cool Culture, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Ana Estrades, museum education consultant, Cool Culture, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Josephine Lee, master's candidate, University of Washington, Seattle
Brandie Macdonald, education manager, Charlotte Museum of History, N.C.
Natalia Marque da Silva, master's candidate, University of Florida, Gainesville
Andrea Murphy, master's candidate, University of Florida, Gainesville
Annie Ruth Napier, arts community education specialist, Cincinnati Museum Center
Gena Marie Peone, preservation specialist, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, Wash.
Nelda Reyes Garcia, research & evaluation supervisor, Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland
Meglena Zapreva, master's candidate, Bank Street College of Education, New York, N.Y.
Emerging Museum Professional (EMP)
Michelle DelCarlo, master's candidate, University of Washington, Seattle
COMPT EMP Fellow
Samantha Gibson, education assistant, Brooklyn Historical Society, N.Y.
Elizabeth Haeuptle, curator of collections/collections management, Elkhart County Historical Museum, Ind.
Alexa Hysi, executive assistant, Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Michael Juen, collections manager, Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii
Liz Link, advancement associate, Museum of Science, Boston
DAM EMP Fellow
Meghan Mulkerin, M.A. museum studies, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
COMPT EMP Fellow
Miranda Peters, collections manager, Preservation Society of Newport County, R.I.
Jennifer Rebuck, assistant registrar, The Historic New Orleans Collection
Katherine Sutlive, teaching corps educator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS
CARE
Stacey Klingler, assistant director, local history services, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis
Scott Pattison, research & evaluation strategist, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland
CURCOM
Bronwyn Eves, project manager, Illinois State Museum, Springfield
Erin Greenwald, associate curator/historian, The Historic New Orleans Collection
DAM
Allison Hauck, director of development, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences, Sioux Falls, S.Dak.
DIVCOM
Suzanne de Vegh, program officer, gallery, education, and lecture programs, Arts & Culture, Japan Society, New York
Solimar Salas, executive assistant & webmaster, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan 
EDCOM
Cathy Callaway, museum educator, Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia
Kate Delgado, Museum Educator, Brooklyn Museum, N.Y.
MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY
Casey Allen, registrar/webmaster, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Mark Christal, multimedia coordinator, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
MMC
Rachel Baron-Horn, director of finance & operations, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Patricia Relay, executive director, Valdez Museum & Historical Archive, Alaska
NAME
Reyna Boyer, MFA candidate, museum exhibition planning & design, University of Arts, Philadelphia
Melissa Holmen, exhibit developer, Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, Wisc.
Dawn Neuendorffer, exhibit designer, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
Zhouran Shi, master's candidate, museum studies, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
PRAM
Stacy Adamson, marketing & communications associate, National Building Museum, Washington, U.S.
Tim Hoheisel, director of outreach & communication, Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak
RC-AAM
Sandra Cintron Goitia, registrar, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Dawn Kimbrel, registrar, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello
SMAC
Christine Cross, director, New London Public Museum, Wisc.
Meg Wastie, curator of education, Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Madison, N.J.
Minnesota State Arts Board
Britt Dahl, director/curator, Roseau County Historical Museum and Interpretive Center, Roseau, Minn.
Nicole Lynn Elzenga, collections manager, Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, Minn.
Nicole Foss, executive director, Beltrami County History Center, Bemidji, Minn.
Carrie McHugh, museum director, Cook County Historical Society, Grand Marais, Minn.
Ann Meline, deputy director, Stearns History Museum, Saint Cloud, Minn.
Lori Pickell-Stangel, executive director, McLeod County Historical Society, New Ulm, Minn.
Reanna Phillips, student of classics, art history & museum studies, Gustavus Adolphus College, Cold Spring, Minn.
Robert Swanson, special projects staff, Grand Portage Tribal Museum, Grand Portage, Minn.
Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Alumni
Luisa Mariela Aguilar, image coordinator, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Carolina Alcala, art teacher, Emilie Richen Elementary School, Oxnard, Calif.
Alexandra Capriotti, marketing manager, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Victor Crosetti, guest services/museum assistant, Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, Calif.
Kelsey Elan Johnson, B.A. candidate, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Stephanie Lindquist, program assistant, Art Connects New York, New York.
Melissa Liu, intern to director, North America, French Regional American Museum Exchange (FRAME), Irvine, Calif.
Helen Ly, museum administrative support, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles
Laura Yu Mae Ng, curatorial assistant, A+D Architecture and Design Museum, West Hills, Calif.
Tanya Rivas, board member, Central American Cultural Center, San Diego
Marisol Rojas, outreach instructor, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles
Jennifer Sales, visitor services associate, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, Calif.
Micaela Torres-Gil, office assistant, School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Kieu-Dung Thi Tran, assistant to director, Durden and Ray Fine Art, Los Angeles
Laura Ybarra, California State University, Los Angeles