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The J. Paul Getty Museum Education Department invites you to attend a symposium to be held June 4–5, 2005, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.
From Content to Play is inspired by the renovation of the Getty Museum's own interactive space geared toward family audiences. Museums often approach the planning and design of these spaces with diverse goals, objectives, methods, and processes and meet with varied outcomes and measures of success. This symposium will provide a forum for both active conversation and collaboration. It aims to bring together professionals whose work focuses on or informs interactive spaces specifically designed for family audiences in art and history museums. The symposium will be of particular interest to museum professionals, researchers, child development specialists, architects, and designers. During two days of presentations and discussions, the symposium will address the ways that these spaces can best respond to the needs, learning styles, and experiences that family audiences bring to their museum visits, as well as the merits and challenges posed by different design approaches. Presenters are being selected by a competitive process.
For information about registration and accommodations, please visit:
http://www.getty.edu/education/family_symposium.html
PRELIMINARY PANEL AND PRESENTER INFORMATION
DAY 1: Saturday, June 4, 2005
8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Opening Presentation
Peggy Fogelman, Assistant Director and Head of Education and Interpretive Programs, J. Paul Getty Museum
Panel 1: The Role of the Object: Using and Interpreting Art and Artifacts
Speakers:
Jean Sousa, Director, Interpretive Exhibitions & Family Programs,
Art Institute of Chicago
Kathryn Blake, Associate Curator for Education, Phoenix Art Museum
Marcia McRae, Arts Specialist, DuPage Children’s Museum
Andrew Alvarez, Independent consultant; (formerly Project Manager, Wolverhampton Art and Museum Service)
Panel 2: Understanding and Responding to our Audiences
Speakers:
Julia Forbes, Head of Museum Interpretation, High Museum of Art
Marianna Adams, Senior Associate, Institute for Learning Innovation
Kathryn Hill, Principal, Museum Services Consulting
Anne Henderson, Director of Education , Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Melissa Hayes, ArtQuest Educator, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Cynthia Moreno, Curator of Education, Speed Art Museum
Panel 3: Creative Play: Collaborating with Artists and Art Schools on Interactive Galleries
Speakers:
Bob Sain, Director, LACMALab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Fred Fisher, Architect, Frederick Fisher and Partners
Lisa Buck, Manager, Fairfield Community Arts Center; (formerly Curator of Education, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati)
Panel 4: The Architect’s Perspective
Speakers:
John Frane, Predock_Frane Architects
Hadrian Predock, Predock_Frane Architects
Peter Exley, Architecture Is Fun
Todd Erlandson, (M)Arch
Sherry Hoffman, (M)Arch
DAY 2: Sunday, June 5, 2005
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Panel 5: Looking at Ourselves: How Values and Philosophies Shape Space
Speakers:
Susan Hoppenfeld, Family and Youth Program Coordinator, Vancouver Art Gallery
Gail Ringel, Vice President, Exhibits & Production, Boston Children’s Museum
Rebecca Edwards, Education Specialist, Family Audiences, J. Paul Getty Museum
Panel 6: High-Tech Versus Low-Tech Interactives: Assessing the Merits of Both
Speakers:
Lynn McRainey, Director of Education, Chicago Historical Society
John Russick, Curator, Chicago Historical Society
Susie Wise, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Sheila Vyas, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Patterson Williams, Denver Art Museum
Closing Presentation
Marianna Adams, Senior Associate, Institute for Learning Innovation
Jessica Luke, Senior Associate, Institute for Learning Innovation
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