To join this Access Peer Group Meeting, please RSVP to Julia Zubrovich or through this Google Form.

We’re going on a (virtual) field trip to the Alice Austen House! The staff at the house have recently mounted “Powerful and Dangerous: The Words of Audre Lorde,” and the NYC LGBT Sites Project recently co-hosted a virtual tour. For this meeting we’ll view the virtual tour (available here) followed by a discussion on how…

How do museums and cultural institutions amplify the visibility of LGBTQ+ voices when there is a history of erasureand absence in curatorial content? To what extent does erasure impact you at work as a staff member? Does not being visibly queer leave you out of the loop in discussions? We will explore a case study…

Our next Adult Peer Group will explore the current state of adult programming.  Some museums are now open and transitioning back to onsite programming while others remain online. How do we build meaningful audience engagement and increase our impact while socially distanced and/or through a screen. How can we utilize virtual tools to expand program…

In partnership with NYSOEA, join for a casual conversation with other non-formal educators and outdoor program managers about how valuable aspects of outdoor programs may be translated to a virtual environment. What does outdoor education look like now? How have you been using virtual platforms? What works and what doesn’t? We encourage you to bring…

RSVP: Jessica Pastore Description:  In a collaboration between the K-12 and Family Programs and Exhibits and Interpretation Peer Groups, this meeting will focus on the reinterpretation of collections through an anti-racist and anti-biased lens. Inspired by the current political atmosphere surrounding Black Lives Matter and the resulting conversations about museums’ place in society as cultural…

Location:  Please RSVP to join us We will have a limited RSVP capacity. The Zoom link to virtually meet will be emailed a few days prior to the book club meeting. Questions? Contact Sejin and Dyeemah at spark@noguchi.org and dyeemah.simmons@gmail.com. Description:  To commemorate World AIDS Day (Dec 1) and the critical history of artists raising…

RSVP: JRolenz@gmail.com Description: Join us for our first fall meeting as we discuss the changes, challenges, and fun that come with teaching a school group virtually over the web. We look forward to discussing the peer groups next steps and we’ll as any other related topics you might be interested in discussing. Feel free to…

RSVP: larike@pratt.edu Description: Take a break from upcoming holiday madness and meet fellow NYCMER Brooklynites! At this introductory meeting, we will get to know one another, discuss ideas for the peer group, highlight exciting (virtual) programming from Brooklyn cultural institutions, and close with a small holiday craft to get us in the spirit. All are…

Location: Zoom RSVP: Amanda Nichols Description: This year the Evaluation Peer group will be formatted differently than in the past. We will be working together on a longer term evaluation project. There will be four professional development/group working sessions for this project based around the following themes and tentative schedule. The first meeting will be…