Honestly, I was expecting more spit. But apparently my bucket list was out of date. The costumed interpreters at Mystic Seaport Museum were informative, chatty, and only in first-person mode when "on stage" re-enacting scenes from Moby Dick. Almost first person: actors deliver a fiery performance of Herman Melville's Moby Dick at Mystic Seaport [...]
One of the highlights of any CAGE symposium is the Case Studies series. CAGE participants find out what others have been doing across the country. Case Study presenters come ready to reveal new programs, best practices, and lessons learned. This year in Edmonton, Case Studies form an important backbone of programming and are thematically linked [...]
Guest post by Melissa Smith, Art Gallery of Ontario and CAGE executive member My favourite memory of Judy Koke, a leading museum educator and theorist, happened during the Youth Summer Party at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She was the Chief of Public Programming and Learning, a significant leadership role, and was on the floor [...]
One of CAGE 2018's hosts, the Ottawa Art Gallery, helped celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th of this year by holding an event to fill in the entries of Ottawa area women and non-binary artists on Wikipedia. The larger international movement has been ongoing since 2013, when the New York based Art + Feminism [...]
The CAGE conference is coming up soon -- May 3-5, 2018 in Ottawa. As part of a series about our workshop presenters and guest speakers, here is Nicolle Nugent's heart-felt and detailed account of working with Indigenous artist and teacher Peter Morin in 2015. If you like what you read here, come experience Peter Morin's [...]
Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum (among many other things), has just returned from the El Museo Reimaginado Conference of the Americas in Medellin, Colombia, and she's pretty fired up about it. Anyone interested in how museums can become community catalysts will read Simon's most recent blog post about her experiences and get fired [...]
This post is going to be tremendously specific: Do you, or someone you know, want to learn more about being a "young leader" in museum management? Gain insights from of a small, inclusive group of internationals? Next week? In Ljubljana, Slovenia? Then here's a great opportunity for you! Part of KulturAgenda (Institute for Museums, Cultural [...]
Smaller art galleries sometimes get overlooked in big cities with large institutions. For the past 18 years, Vancouver's SWARM Festival has gathered strength in numbers--this year's event, running September 7-8, includes numerous artist-run centres, many of which CAGE members visited during our 2015 symposium in Vancouver. Read the Georgia Straight's take on the festival here. Visit [...]
Here's an opportunity for you. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, has recently announced a new slate of courses at their Learning Academy. Designed for museum professionals, the courses include leadership, interpretation, and programming. A snippet from their Marketing Manager: "Each of our short, intensive courses are taught by V&A staff and focus [...]
The 2017 Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education are now open for nominations. Sure, four of them go to those in the UK. But there's one international prize available every round--and with all the 150 projects currently on the go, why wouldn't a Canadian winner be a good fit? Engage, Britain's CAGE correspondent, hosts [...]
