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AAMV is sponsoring sessions at the AAM Annual Meeting in Denver, April 27 - May 1, 2008

Sunday April 27          2:15 to 3:30 pm         
Leading the Corps: New Approaches to Docent/Volunteer/Intern Programs

        Whether you are from an art museum with a long established docent council or from a children's or science museum
        with behind the scenes volunteers or interns, this session will demonstrate how  you can establish or revamp
        volunteer/docent leadership programs so volunteers/docents have greater leadership roles as mentors, trainers,
        and/or supervisors.

        Chair:  Debbie Young, Director of Volunteer Services, Children's Museum of Indianapolis, AAMV board member
        Panelists:  
        Deb Fuller, Docent, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, CT, AAMV board member
        Jacqueline Close, Volunteer Coordinator, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
        Diane Arkin, Lecturer and Adult Program Coordinator, National Gallery of Art                   

Tuesday April 29       9:00 am to 10:15 am
Talking Shop: Roundtable Discussion with Volunteer Managers and Docents

      In this Roundtable brainstorming forum, attendees who work with or manage docents or volunteers will share new
      ideas and solutions to common issues.  Facilitated by museum staff and docents, each group of ten participants
      will discuss and decipher a topic (such as "attracting a diverse volunteer/docent corps" or "improving docent/
      volunteer/staff relations") that represents a challenge and record various suggestions, plans, or procedures to solve it.
      The communal results of each topic will be disseminated to the entire group.
       
      Chair:  Gin Wachter, AAMV President and NDSC Immediate Past President, Docent, St. Lewis Art Museum
      Facilitators include AAMV board members:

      Linda Apple , Director, Volunteer and Community Programs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
      Carol Allen Smith, Docent Phoenix Art Museum
      Maretta Hemsley-Wood, Docent Program Manager, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
      Rhonda Hethcox, Director of Volunteers, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
      Robbin Davis, Volunteer and Marketing Manager, Oklahoma History Museum
      Ann Brennan Thomas, Docent, Denver Art Museum, CO 

 

  
Annual Meeting and luncheon
at AAM in Denver
Monday April 28, 2008
12:30-2:00 pm

Rika Burnham, Metropolitan Museum of Art
and
Elliott Kai-Kee, J. Paul Getty Museum
will be guest speakers on the topic
Art, Wonder, and the Museum Visitor Experience

Everyone is invited to attend!

     If you are interested in creating, improving or sharing ideas for volunteer programs - come and network
     with museum colleagues, staff who work with museum volunteers and volunteer leaders during lunch. 
     The business meeting will be very short to allow plenty of time to hear two very special guest speakers, 
     Rika Burnham, Associate Museum Educator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Elliott Kai-Kee, 
     Education Specialist in charge of Gallery Teaching at The J. Paul Getty Museum.
     AAMV members and non-members are welcome, so please join us for this fun and informative event!

Tickets may be purchased through the AAM or the AAMV.
For more information contact
 AAMV President, Gin Wachter at email@ginwachter.com

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