Aaron Bryant is curator for the James Lewis Museum of Art and a research fellow at the Maryland Historical Society. In addition to fine arts, his portfolio includes exhibitions on World War II Radar Technology, the anniversary exhibition for the Apollo 11 Lunar Camera, and historical research for the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health. His twenty years of management experience includes arts management consulting as a project director specializing in business operations, analysis and strategy. Additionally, he has written for Black Enterprise, The Crisis Magazine, and Black Issues Book Review. He holds a Bachelor’s in History from Duke, a Certificate in Arts Management from NYU, and a Masters in Arts Management from Yale. He is formerly a Curatorial Fellow with the Historical Electronics Museum and a University Fellow at the University of Maryland, where he is completing his doctorate in American Studies, material culture and museum scholarship.
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Allegra Burnette is the creative director of digital media at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, overseeing the design and production for all interpretive technologies, including the Museum's website (MoMA.org), kiosks and digital displays. Online projects include redesigning the Web site, creating audience-specific sites for teachers, teens, and kids, overseeing an ongoing series of award-winning exhibition sites, and extending the reach of MoMA’s content through iTunes U, YouTube and elsewhere. Offline projects include the lobby display screens and the launch of MoMA.guide, a series of interactive kiosks. Prior to working at MoMA, Ms. Burnette created and ran a media department at the renowned museum exhibition design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates. She has an MFA in museum exhibition planning and design from the University of the Arts, where she has also taught graduate courses in museum media.
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Sarah Chicone is the director of exhibits at the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth, a small natural history museum affiliated with Cornell University. She is responsible for the design and development of all permanent and temporary exhibitions and the launch of the institution’s traveling exhibitions program. She has over eight years of professional exhibition design experience, and has been lead curator, developer, and designer for contemporary art, history, anthropology, and natural history exhibitions. Her academic and professional interests include material culture studies, cultural resource management, informal education, cultural heritage, exhibition design, and public archaeology. Dr. Chicone holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (Archaeology) from Binghamton University, an M.A. in Anthropology (Archaeology) and a graduate certificate in Museum Management from the University of South Carolina, and a B.A. from Lake Forest College. Dr. Chicone has taught at Binghamton University and Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
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Susan Chun consults with cultural heritage organizations on information management and intellectual property strategy and policy issues. Her clients include museums, libraries, universities, museum and academic consortia, and funders. She is currently a resident scholar, museum programs, at the New Media Consortium. Until 2007, Ms. Chun was general manager for collections information planning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she was responsible for institutional strategy and for developing and managing projects involving intellectual property, asset management and archiving, digital imaging and licensing, publishing, and standards. Prior to that, she was involved in all aspects of the Met’s publishing program as a member of the museum’s editorial department. She writes and lectures regularly on copyright, publishing, open content initiatives, and social software.
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Laura Coyle is an independent curator, art historian, and proprietor of CURATOR-AT-LARGE, a company that provides curatorial services to art museums and organizations. She has many years of experience at the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, both in Washington, D.C. At the Corcoran she was curator of European art and organized several major exhibitions, including Joan of Arc (2006), Marvels of Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics (2004), The Shape of Color: Joan Miró’s Painted Sculpture (2002), and Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (2001). Currently she is working on A Passion for Flowers: Painting in France from Courbet to Monet, an exhibition she conceived for the American Federation of Arts. The show will open in 2009 and travel to three venues. Dr. Coyle holds an M.A. in the history of art from Williams College and a Ph.D. in the history of art from Princeton University.
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Herminia Wei-Hsin Din is an assistant professor of art education at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Previously she was the Web producer at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and education technologist at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In the past few years, she has worked with the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks on the LearnAlaska project, an educational tool to sort, display, and share digital museum objects and historical images from the Alaska Digital Archives. In 2005 she facilitated a docent-training program using Internet2 videoconferencing for a traveling exhibit in Alaska, Light Motifs: American Impressionist Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She serves as program chair for the board of the media and technology committee of AAM, and was also the MUSE Awards chair for two years. She recently co-edited and contributed to The Digital Museum: A Think Guide (2007). She holds a doctorate in art education from Ohio State University.
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Robin Dowden is director of new media initiatives and member of the audience engagement and communications team at the Walker Art Center. Together with her department, she is responsible for developing the Center’s use of interactive and emerging technologies including multimedia computer applications (Dialog table), telephony-based audio-information resources (Art on Call), the Walker’s website, and projects to create digital resources. Robin directs Internet-based special projects including ArtsConnectEd, a joint initiative of the Walker and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and mnartists.org, an online resource for Minnesota artists developed by the Walker and the McKnight Foundation. Prior to joining the Walker, Dowden was the Collections Systems and Web Site Manager at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ms. Dowden did graduate work in Art History at the University of California, Davis, and holds a B.A. in Art History from Arizona State University.
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Elizabeth Eder is assistant chair, National Education Partnerships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., where she develops strategic partnerships and educational products using new media to integrate the visual arts into the core curriculum nationwide. Prior to her appointment in 2006, she taught social foundations of education at the University of Maryland and Millersville University (Pa). She has worked as director of professional education programs at the American Association of Museums; head of school and teacher programs at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; and lecturer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She has written two books and numerous articles on historical topics, and recently served on the editorial board of the Journal of Museum Education. She has also lectured widely. Dr. Eder has a B.A. in art and art history from American University, an M.A.T. in museum education from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in history of education from University of Maryland. She also has a certificate in teaching to standards with new technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Bruce Falk Bruce Falk joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., as a contracting officer in 2006 after working for nearly a dozen years in contracting at the Smithsonian Institution. His expertise extends from intellectual property to information technology. In 1997 he drafted the Smithsonian Institution’s first major online exhibit agreement and in 2001 organized a multimedia vendor fair to educate museum professionals in the burgeoning use of the Internet as a natural extension of outreach. In the spring of 2007, he served as videography jury chair for the American Association of Museums annual MUSE Awards. A member of the DC Bar and active with the DC Bar arts, entertainment, music, and sports law section, Mr. Falk has previously served as section financial officer, section chair, program chair, and co-chair of the music and entertainment subcommittee. He earned his B.A. from Northwestern University and his law degree from George Washington University Law School.
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Kate Haley Goldman is a senior research associate at the Institute for Learning Innovation, Edgewater, Maryland, a nonprofit organization that performs evaluation and undertakes research in museums and other free-choice learning environments. Kate has worked on dozens of learning-based evaluation and research projects, which have involved mobile phones, Web sites, augmented and mixed reality, novel data visualization systems, and online workshops. She has done work for the Cleveland Museum of Art, Liberty Science Center (Jersey City, NJ), Mystic Seaport (Mystic, Conn.), and the Media Convergence Lab at the University of Central Florida (Orlando). Her work concentrates on furthering both evaluation theory and methods for technology-based museum learning. She has a B.S. in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and graduate training in measurement, statistics, and evaluation.
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Marissa Hoechstetter is a development associate with the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art where she serves as a liaison to the Board of Trustees. She organizes an annual fundraising gala and other special events, and supports general fundraising and public relations initiatives. She has served as a lead fundraiser and steward for exhibitions with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. There, she also managed the Smithsonian Community Grant program, which awards grants to museums for public programs. Ms. Hoechstetter has consulted for the Phillips Collection, worked in the Chairman’s Office of the National Endowment for the Arts, and taught high school art classes. She has an MA in Arts Management from American University and a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College.
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Nik Honeysett is head of administration for the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Prior to his current role, he managed the Getty's Web Group, and was responsible for all aspects of its website and intranets. Before joining the Getty in 2000, Mr. Honeysett was the head of production at Cognitive Applications, Ltd., a United Kingdom consultancy firm working exclusively with museums and galleries in Europe and the U.S. He currently chairs the American Association of Museums (AAM) Media and Technology Standing Professional Committee and sits on a number of other AAM committees, including the Standing Professional Committee Council and the National Program Committee for AAM 2008. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in microprocessors.
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Deborah Howes is a full-time faculty member and student advisor in the JHU Museum Studies program. She has over 25 years of museum experience, and most recently she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where as the Museum Educator in charge of Educational Media, she led an interdisciplinary 25-member team of educators, producers and technicians to create award-winning educational materials in print, video and web formats for both inside and outside museum use. This same team managed the creation and execution of the technical aspects of the Met’s new Uris Center for Education: a 20,000 sq. foot facility including classrooms, meeting spaces and a library. Ms. Howes has lectured about museums, technology, art, and education at the Bank Street School of Education, Museum Leadership Program, and at New York University, Steinhardt School, Arts Administration program. She has a master’s degree (A.M.) in museum education from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in art history with honors from Wellesley College.
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Michael Jenkins is a consultant working with cultural heritage organizations on issues including digital records management, workflow, and systems integration. Prior to consulting, Mr. Jenkins held several positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Most recently he was general manager for collections information planning. In this role, he advised the Office of the Director on policy and projects that made information about the museum’s encyclopedic collection available through digital networks. Previously, he managed a comprehensive initiative to preserve and protect the Met’s archive of digital images through a secure centralized repository for the storage, management and distribution of images. He has spoken and written about topics including digital asset management in the museum space and improving access to collections online. Michael has served on the Institute for Museum and Library Services Digital Collections and Content Advisory Board, the RLG Programs Collections Sharing Working Group, the CDWA Lite Advisory Board, and was a member of the steering committee of "steve," an open source project investigating the usefulness of social tagging in the museum space. Mr. Jenkins holds a B.A. in Art with a concentration in Art History from Grinnell College.
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Judith Landau is the internship coordinator for the JHU Museum Studies program. Ms. Landau has over 25 years of museum and teaching experience. She has conducted staff and docent development workshops for over 40 museums, served as a facilitator for strategic planning in museums, developed curricula for museums and schools, trained classroom teachers, worked on various museum education committees and was an outreach specialist at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Previously, she served as Assistant Director and faculty member of the graduate program in Museum Education at the George Washington University. Ms. Landau has an M.A.T. in museum education from the George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in music education from Queens College, City University of New York.
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Susan Higman Larsen has more than 20 years of publishing experience, the bulk of which has been for museums. Since 2001 she has been director of publications at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and her editorial experience includes work on traditional as well as Web-based museum exhibition catalogues, scholarly journals, reference works, popular books, technical reports, children’s guides, and other ephemera. She has been an editor at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, also in Washington, and has done freelance work for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walters Art Gallery, and Art Services International, among other clients. She was on the editorial staff of the Washington Review of the Arts from 1987 until 2001 and currently serves on an advisory board for Wayne State University Press. She received a B.A. in art history from Georgetown University and an M.A., also in art history, from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Miriam Levin teaches cultural history and history of technology at Case Western Reserve University. Her work focuses on urban environments, international expositions, museums, and institutions of higher education as agents of international and global change. She began her academic career as a graduate student in the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art and later developed museum-based programs in the humanities at the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities. Since then she has published Defining Women’s Scientific Enterprise, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize nominee; When the Eiffel Tower Was New (1989); and Republican Art and Ideology in Late 19th-century France (1986). She has held posts as visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences et Sociales, Paris; the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; visiting fellow at MIT; Centre des Recherches en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris; and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. She currently heads a six-person research team, funded by the National Science Foundation, writing Inventing an International Culture of Change in Six Cities (1870–1930). She also lectures and publishes widely on museums, their history, and role in global development. Dr. Levin has an M.A. in art history from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Massachusetts.
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Matthew MacArthur is director of the new media program at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH). His department administers the museum’s award-winning Web site and oversees a range of digital media projects, including handhelds, podcasting, and e-mail communication. At the Smithsonian, he has worked on a variety of initiatives that employ technology in the teaching of history and material culture. A number of these groundbreaking projects, including Revealing Things and HistoryWired, have experimented with innovative interface techniques. During his tenure, NMAH sites have won recognition from such organizations as the American Association of Museums and New York Festivals, as well as publications such as HOW, Communication Arts, and I.D. magazines. He holds a B.A. in American studies from the University of Oregon and an M.A. in history from the Claremont Graduate School, where he focused on history and new media.
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Sarah Marcotte has been active in museum education for more than 12 years. Her interests include natural and cultural history of California, and technology used to enhance education in museums. She worked at the Natural History Museum of LA County for eight years, supervising all aspects of outreach and onsite programs for students and teachers. For the past year, she has worked as education programs manager at Kidspace Children’s Museum, Pasadena, California, leading staff training in science content and museum education pedagogy. She serves as MUSE Awards chair for the AAM media and technology committee, Web strategy chair for the Museum Educators of Southern California, and membership chair of the Museum Education Roundtable. She holds a master’s degree in museum education from Bank Street College and a master’s degree in education technology from Pepperdine University.
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Marla Misunas is the collections information manager at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she has worked in various roles in registration and information management since 1992. Past president of the Museum Computer Network (MCN), she served eight years on the board of directors and chaired MCN annual meetings in 2003, 2004, and 2005. She has also spoken at conferences of the American Association of Museums and the Western Museums Association. Ms. Misunas holds an M.A. in museum studies from John F. Kennedy University, and a B.A. in art history from the University of Chicago.
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Arthur Molella is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. The center has received major awards from the American Association of Museums for its exhibition Invention at Play and its related Web site. He served as chairman of the museum’s history of science and technology department (1983–94) and assistant director for history (1994–97). He was head curator of Science in American Life, the Smithsonian’s permanent exhibition on science and society. In spring 2007, he taught as senior lecturer in the department of history of science and technology at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published widely on the historical relations between technology and culture. Recent publications include Inventing for the Environment (ed. with Joyce Bedi, 2003) and Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the 20th Century (with Robert Kargon, 2008). He received a Ph.D. in the history of science from Cornell University and an honorary doctorate of science from Westminster University, London.
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Chuck Patch has directed the information systems department at the Historic New Orleans Collection for the past 17 years. There he has overseen the development of two collections information systems and numerous special projects, including kiosk-based multimedia presentations, large-scale digitization, and a GIS system for displaying historical data. He managed the development of the MINT collections information system, which integrates museum collections management functions with library and archival cataloging practice. He has served as a board member and president of the Museum Computer Network and as a representative for the American Association of Museums on the joint committee for archives, libraries, and museums. He has been the project lead for his institution in an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership project and has served on several review panels for the IMLS. Following Hurricane Katrina, he conducted workshops on disaster preparedness and recovery using lessons learned during the post-hurricane flood of New Orleans in 2005. He holds an associate’s degree in computer and information technology from Tulane University College and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin.
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Elizabeth Rawson is senior exhibition developer//project manager at Brooklyn Children’s Museum where she leads project teams for an internationally renowned exhibition program. Previously she was an independent consultant specializing in exhibition development, collections management, and research; and curator of collections and curator of exhibitions for the Brooklyn Historical Society. Her work has been recognized by the American Association of Museums, the Association of Children's Museums, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Association of State and Local History. Ms. Rawson holds an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and a B.A. in Historic Preservation from Goucher College.
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Douglas Robertson is a financial economist in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is part of the United States Treasury Department. He conducts research on a broad range of topics related to banking and financial markets. Recent projects include a study of how investments in hedge funds and private equity funds affect the performance of public pension funds and a cost and benefit analysis of recently proposed changes to bank capital rules. Prior to his current position, he worked in the Office of Financial Institutions Policy at the Treasury Department and the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Dr. Robertson received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Maryland and his B.A. in economics from Grinnell College.
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Kris Sayre has been an art museum educator for the past 16 years, in the education department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and as director of education at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul. She has served as team leader in the writing of elementary art curricula for the St. Paul Public Schools and for ten years as museum education representative on the governing board of art educators of Minnesota. She wrote the award-winning online art resource Get the Picture: Thinking about Photographs. Ms. Wetterlund has designed and implemented a two-year program to train K-12 teachers throughout Minnesota to use online art museum resources and technology in their classrooms and has also provided services for users of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), advising educators who implement AMICO digital art resources in curriculum and teaching. She has also developed a national plan for delivering the Mellon Foundation’s ARTstor project to K-12 teachers and students as a classroom resource. She received her degree in art education from the University of Minnesota and is certified as a K-12 Minnesota teacher.
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Scott Sayre, co-founder and a principal of Sandbox Studios, has more than 15 years of experience in guiding museums to select, develop, and apply educational and business technologies. In 2005, Sandbox Studios formed Museum 411, which focuses on the design, production, and hosting of mobile phone-based museum information systems. From 2002 to 2003 he served as the Art Museum Image Consortium’s (AMICO) director of member services and U.S. operations. From 1991 to2002 he was the director of media and technology at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where he led the museum’s interactive media group in the development of ArtsConnectEd.org (1997), the institute’s Web site artsMIA.org (1993), and 16 interactive multimedia programs installed throughout the museum’s galleries. Dr. Sayre has also served as the chair of the media and technology committee of the American Association of Museums. He has a doctorate in education from the University of Minnesota, an M.Ed. in training, and a B.A. in visual communications technology.
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Angela Spinazze founded ATSPIN consulting in 1997 and has worked with institutions worldwide on integrating technologies into the museum ecology to improve access to collections information for both staff and public audiences. She began her career in the development office at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she joined a multidisciplinary team to inventory and design a database for the museum’s collections. Ms. Spinazze managed the conversion of the index-card file (representing approximately 150,000 works of art) into electronic form and helped develop the application architecture and user interface. She also served as director of marketing for a leading collections management system developer, where she managed all marketing and sales activities worldwide. Ms. Spinazze received a bachelor’s degree from Miami University and a master’s degree in art history, theory, and criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Leonard Steinbach is technology strategist for the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and principal of Cultural Technology Strategies, which provides technology consultation services to a broad range of cultural institutions. Previously he was chief information officer at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he was responsible for developing and implementing information technology initiatives. These activities garnered two American Association of Museum MUSE Awards, among other national recognition. He has been president of the Museum Computer Network and served on advisory boards for the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report on Technology and Higher Education, Internet2’s K20 initiative, as well as various museums and other cultural and civic institutions. Mr. Steinbach was the former chief technology officer for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He has spent more than 20 years in technology management in higher education, research, and the arts and is an outspoken advocate for professional, creative, and cost-effective IT management in the museum and cultural communities.
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Robert Sullivan, a partner at Chora (www.choracreative.com), has over 35 years of museum management, education, and fundraising experience. Previously, he served as the Associate Director for Public Programs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, managing all aspects of exhibition,education, and public program development. Recognizing the vast educational potential of the web, he is committed to transforming museums from isolated cultural destination into hubs within an interconnected global learning network. Formerly the Director of the New York State Museum, Mr. Sullivan holds a graduate degree in management of nonprofit organizations from the University of Rochester and is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. in Human Sciences at The George Washington University.
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John Talasek is the director of exhibitions and cultural programs at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., which is focused on the exploration of the intersections between science, medicine, technology, and visual culture. He was the creator and organizer of the recent international on-line symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience (www.visualcultureandbioscience.org). He has taught at the University of Delaware and Essex and Howard Community Colleges. Mr. Talasek has curated several exhibitions at the National Academy of Sciences, including Visionary Anatomies, Absorption + Transmission: Work by Mike and Doug Starn and Cycloids: Paintings by Michael Schultheis. At the University of Delaware, he organized and curated Observations in an Occupied Wilderness: Photographs by Terry Falke and LightBox: The Visual AIDS Archive Project. He is the art advisor for Issues in Science and Technology Magazine, published by the University of Texas at Dallas and The National Academies. He holds a B.S. in photography from East Texas State University, an M.F.A. in studio arts from the University of Delaware, an M.A. in museum studies from the University of Leicester.
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Selma Thomas is the founder and principal of Watertown Productions, Inc., a media design and production firm based in Washington, D.C. A filmmaker with a background in history, Ms. Thomas produced several award-winning public television documentaries before beginning her work with museums and libraries. She has designed and produced interpretive media, both site- and Web-based, for a variety of cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of American History, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress, all in Washington, D.C., as well as the Chicago History Museum; the Exploratorium, San Francisco; and the Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia. She is media editor of Curator: The Museum Journal and a frequent author. Her publications include “Private Memory in Public Spaces: Oral History in the Museum,” in the Oral History and Public Memories (2008); the “Introduction” to The Digital Museum: A Think Guide (2007); The Virtual and the Real, an exploration of the interpretive role of media in museums (co-editor, 1998); as well as numerous articles and reviews. She is a frequent panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has served on several boards, including the standing professional committee on media and technology of the American Association of Museums, the National Council for Public History, and the American Poetry Museum. Thomas holds a B.A. with honors in history from Barnard College and a M.A. in history from the University of Delaware, where she was a fellow.
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Holly Witchey is director of new media at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She also serves on the board of directors of the Museum Computer Network and is an American Association of Art Museums-appointed member of the national committee for archives, libraries, and museums. From 2002 to 2007 she served as a member of and, eventually, chair of AAM’s media and technology standing professional committee. As associate curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art, she began developing content-rich projects for museums using new technologies. In 2000 she left the curatorial world to start the new media department at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Witchey writes and speaks about museum ethics, accessibility, and issues that have arisen as a result of the use of new technologies in museum settings. She has a Ph.D. in 15th-century Italian painting and sculpture.
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Carole Zawatsky is the associate director for art, ideas, and Jewish life at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. A seasoned museum professional, Ms. Zawatsky most recently served as founding executive director of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, Ohio, where she oversaw the museum’s role as a cultural center for Jewish life and history in the region. She served as the director of education at The Jewish Museum, New York, from 1998 until 2004. While there, she leveraged the museum’s resources to develop new relationships with broader audiences. She was program coordinator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., from 1994 to 1998, where she conceptualized, developed, and implemented programs that focused on the lessons of the Holocaust for a broad public audience. She has served as a member of the steering committee for the Council of American Jewish Museums and has also moderated panels for a number of regional, national, and international conferences and seminars. She has a B.A. in art history from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in museum education from George Washington University.
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Deborah Ziska, chief of press and public information, National Gallery of Art, Washington, oversees media relations and marketing activities. In 20 years at the Gallery she has directed and/or carried out publicity, advertising, and outreach for hundreds of exhibitions and has been the Gallery’s key spokesperson and strategist for major announcements and crisis communications. She has initiated community and international cultural tourism collaborations and is an advisor/pro bono consultant to The Fund for Arts and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Honors include the Public Relations Society of America's 2004 Silver Anvil Award of Excellence for Multicultural Public Relations for Washington's "Blues and Dreams" celebration, and Advertising Age's "Top Marketing 100" award for promotion of the blockbuster exhibition, Van Gogh's Van Goghs. Before coming to the Gallery in 1988, Ms. Ziska worked for the End Hunger Network; the Overseas Education Fund; Porter, Novelli, and Associates; the National Commission on Working Women; WUSA-TV (CBS); the American Red Cross; and the Prince George's County School System, Maryland. She studied studio art at the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, and has a B.S. in advertising design with areas of concentration in radio/TV/film and art history from the University of Maryland, College Park. She studied telecommunications policy in the graduate program at George Washington University, Washington, DC.
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