#ARCSChat Podcast

The new cliché resonating around the world as we make our way through the global pandemic is “the new normal”. Managing our collections has no immunity to this sentiment, so #ARCSchat has asked academic leaders with extensive experience in museum studies and arts administration programs, and charged with educating our next generation, to contribute their thoughts on the subject while hosts John, Amanda, and Robin foster discussion in response.   Contributing panelists include: Elizabeth (Elee) Wood, PhD Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Director of Education and Public Programs The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Los Angeles, CA   Dr. Nicole Hodges Persley Interim Vice Provost of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Associate Professor Departments of American Studies and African and African American Studies The University of Kansas   Dr. Rosanna N. Flouty Interim Director, Program in Museum Studies Clinical Assistant Professor of Museum Studies New York University   Sixtine Cruchfield-Tripet Art Director, WiseKey Developer of the Fine Art International Management MBA Geneva Business School

#ARCSchat returns with its annual #MayDay special. This year we preach from our soapbox by way of a game show! You may or may not be familiar with "Um, Actually", a YouTube show where the host makes a false statement and contestants battle to correct it first. Joining us as panelists and judges are UK-based conservators Jenny Mathiasson and Kloe Rumsey, the hosts of the C-Word Podcast, object conservator, speaker, and educator from Peru Angelica Isa , and our own registrar from the Ringling Museum in Florida Amanda Robinson.

Since 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been in place to provide for the repatriation and disposition of certain Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. Over the years, adjustments to the program have been made and most recently in 2021, a new draft of proposed regulation updates was published. Listen in with #ARCSchat as the team speaks with Dr. Martina Dawley, Director/THPO at the Hualapai Department of Cultural Resources, to explore these changes, their potential impacts, and how the program can best serve and protect the heritage of indigenous nations within America.   Resources:   https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/repatriation/NMAI-RepatriationPolicy-2014.pdf   https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/upload/NAGPRA-Draft-Regulations-Overview-of-Changes.pdf Hualapai Bird Singers  https://youtu.be/gdO4oIEO3tg Hualapai History https://youtu.be/z2HAM0o3rcg COVID Color Code System - Public Announcement for the community https://youtu.be/wT9CqJZLCE8  Story Map: Walapai Internment at Camp La Paz  We run the trail each year on April 21 https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5c192f51ebe94b9e9dbb76179924f464 La Paz: Hualapai Trail of Tears Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPeqIX6vG_w 

A painting in 100 years is still paint on its support and hangs on a wall, but time-based media will always change due to evolutions in technology and changes in performers and/or venues. As collections stewards, #ARCSchat will discuss how they actively protect the legacy of the artist and their work as it ages along with the technologies and personnel that present these pieces.   Panel: sasha arden (they/them): Time-Based Media Conservator Diego Mellado (he/him): Technical Director, Studio Daniel Canogar Kate Weinstein (she/her): Collections Manager & Registrar, Thoma Foundation   Resources: Guggenheim Time-based Media https://www.guggenheim.org/conservati... Metropolitan Museum, Time-based Media Working Group https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-m... Electronic Media Group, AIC https://community.culturalheritage.or... Matters in Media Art http://mattersinmediaart.org/ Smithsonian, Time-based Media & Digital Art Resources https://www.si.edu/tbma/resources MoMA Media Conservation Initiative https://www.mediaconservation.io/reso... NYU, Workshops in Time-based Media (TBM) Art Conservation https://ifa.nyu.edu/conservation/tbm-... Digital Preservation Coalition https://dpconline.org/handbook/contents NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation https://ndsa.org/publications/levels-... Art and Obsolescence Podcast: https://www.artandobsolescence.com/

Museums have many facets, but one of their key functions is to serve as repositories for histories, cultures, and information. In more recent years, our field has begun to re-evaluate the specific stories museums have collected, and more importantly, amplify those that have been excluded. On February 1st we explored diversifying our data with Frances Lloyd-Baynes, Head of Collections Information Management at Minneapolis Institute of Art.   Additional Resources: AAMC Artist Demographics Consortium   Judith Pineiro, Executive Director   AAMC & AAMC Foundation   judith.pineiro@artcurators.org   Slack: TMS Artists Questionnaire Group Jaye Melino, MoMA (Host) jaye_melino@moma.org "Decolonizing Digital Preservation", Monica Montgomery, Founder of Museum Hue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgU3HhzvJuY On Feb 10, 2021 there was a "DAMS and Museums" one-day virtual conference focusing on digital asset management (images, videos, etc.) in the museum sector. Monica Montgomery, Founder of Museum Hue, gave a really great presentation on "Decolonizing Digital Preservation", which I think is applicable to everyone working in the cultural heritage space, not just folks managing digital assets. The session is now available to watch on the Henry Stewart DAMS YouTube channel. I highly recommend it.   This presentation appears to be available only via the TMS List-Serv (TMSUSERS@SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU) through an informal sharing via email. Folks might be best-placed to contact the authors directly. "Building an Inclusive Database: Cataloging Race, Gender, Sexuality and Other Identities", Terri Anderson and Emily Houf, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Collective Imagination 2016 conference   Resources: "Documenting Diversity: How should museums identify art and artists?" Frances Lloyd-Baynes, March 27, 2019.  https://www.aam-us.org/wire/medium/documenting-diversity/ Data Feminism. Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020   Digital Transgender Archives  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control, Jane Sandberg, ed. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2019 Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000 Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities. Elizabeth Losh and ‎Jacqueline Wernimont. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018 Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, How We Collect Data Determines Whose Voice Is Heard (2020)  https://www.schusterman.org/blogs/rella-kaplowitz/how-we-collect-data-determines-whose-voice-is-heard

In April of 2020, The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History launched a task force charged with collecting and documenting the impact of COVID-19 on history and culture. At a moment's notice they had to formulate a collecting strategy and begin the acquisition of objects and archives that documented a crisis that even now, almost 2 years later, continues to unfold. On this #ARCSchat, we spoke with our guests Alexandra Lord and Joshua Gorman, the chair of the Division of Medicine and Science and Head of Collections Management respectively, about how they devised and implemented a collections strategy, and went about the task of documenting a crisis while in the crisis. As the collection of objects relating to COVID-19 is ongoing and the institution wishes to cast a wide net, if you feel like you have a relevant artifact please contact the museum at inquiry@si.edu.

In April of 2020, #ARCSchat sat down with a large panel of shippers to discuss how we would approach shipping our collections during the encroaching pandemic. That chat marked an important milestone for our entire industry as it was the first of many on the subject by a wide range of institutions. We will revisit the topic with a similar panel of art shippers from the United States, Asia, Latin America, and Europe to discuss permanent changes to our procedures, laws and regulations resulting from the pandemic, and new best practices (couriers, trackers, PPE, etc), and how sustainability issues animated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The panel will also anticipate other changes (both positive and negative) and provide their experience and insight as to why they will develop and how to adapt to them.

There has been much ado in recent years about museum funding; from institutions declining support from organizations rumored to conduct unethical business practices, to the temporary expansion of deaccession fund regulations in the field. And gosh, even a little money laundering might be somewhere in the mix! In this episode, #ARCSchat welcomes art lawyer Katherine Wilson-Milne, a partner at Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP and co-host of the Art Law Podcast, to help us explore what the future of museum funding might look like, and the potential for how it could evolve.  https://www.youtube.com/c/AssociationofRegistrarsandCollectionsSpecialists www.artlawpodcast.com https://schlaw.com/#/about/katherine-wilson-milne

Like the change of seasons, the arrival of September brings the return of #ARCSchat on the first Tuesday of every month. We begin our new season with Mr. Alexander Herman, Assistant Director of the Institute for Art Law, to discuss and take your questions about repatriation and restitution. Mr. Herman will release his new book, Restitution: The Return of Cultural Artifacts (https://www.lundhumphries.com/product...) in September and will bring to our conversation his keen legal insight and deep research that informs the book.

Join #ARCSchat​, the ARCS Emergency Programming Sub-Committee, National Heritage Responders, and the AIC Emergency Committee as they join forces to bring you a disaster virtual tabletop exercise just in time for FAIC’s annual #maydayprep​ program. Enter the FAIC #MayDayPrep​ Resources: National Collections Program | NCP |  https://ncp.si.edu/​ Implementing the Incident Command System at the Institutional Level - https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/david...​ Exercising Your Disaster Response Plan-https://www.connectingtocollections.o...​ Emergency Preparedness & Response - Wiki - https://www.conservation-wiki.com/wik...​ National Incident Management System | FEMA.gov - https://www.fema.gov/emergency-manage...​ EMI - IS - https://training.fema.gov/is/courseov...

Deaccessioning, unionizing, social justice, NFTs, and more. For the April episode of #ARCSchat​, we dish on the great cultural and collections controversies in the news with Paddy Johnson, founder of VVrkshop and the Art F City blog, as well as the co-host of the Explain Me podcast. She has contributed to The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Economist, CNN, VICE, Gizmodo, Observer, Frieze Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Art Newspaper, and Hyperallergic. She was a columnist for Artnet, The L Magazine, and Art in America. Show up to this indulgent chat with a giant bottle of your hottest takes and let Paddy uncork it with her cunning insight.

This episode features guest co-host, Samantha Forsko, Vice President of the ARCS Board, and four members of the IDEA task force (Co-Chair Renee S. Anderson, Ph.D. [she/her], Shiori Oki [she/her], Janet Chen [she/her], Tiffany Charles [she/her]). In this discussion we explore the themes of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion within our field, discuss the creation of the ARCS IDEA task force and their work to date, as well as the future of the IDEA group. For more information of the IDEA task force, its members, and its work, please follow the attached link: https://www.arcsinfo.org/content/documents/arcschatmarch2021descriptionbios.pdf

Now, more than ever, our profession requires unprecedented levels of collaboration and trust across staff, institutions, and professions in order to function. With this in mind, #ARCSchat​ collaborates with two other chats/podcasts representing the installation profession, PACCIN Chats and Art Pro Net to talk about how we collaborate professionally now. They will provide an art handlers' perspectives on virtual installs, establishing trust in lenders, traveling exhibitions in today's environment, and the road ahead.  From PACCIN: Julia Latané: Head of Preparation and Installation at LACMA Jerry Smith: Sr. Collections Management Technician at LACMA  From Art Pro Net: Kelly Bennett: Founder of Art Pro Net and Head of Collections Management at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art  Our exhibitions don't happen in a bubble. As a result, let's investigate the butterfly effect of our near-term actions. Resources:Art Pro Nethttps://artpronet.com/PACCIN Chatshttps://www.paccin.org/content.php?428-PACCIN-Chats Article mentioning the hiring "pipeline"https://www.fastcompany.com/90561692/dont-blame-your-lack-of-diversity-on-the-pipeline-blame-your-process

Couriers are the moment's big unanswered question sitting on the tips of the tongue of museums all across the world. We dared to tackle it in December, but ended up with an onslaught of questions and ran out of time. As a result, we return in this podcast with a special "Ask Me Anything" episode designed specifically to answer audience questions directly from our listeners. To help address your questions, we brought in two experts from the great windy city:Cayetana Castillo, the Executive Director Collections and Loans at the Art Institute of ChicagoTiffany Charles, the Head of Exhibitions Registration at the Field Museum in Chicago Resources discussed in the podcast are linked below:AIC Courier Checklisthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1wKvqJwPP1d72su_BXY-nCN5uGFoM0HC1U5VAyEogrPI/edit NPR Segment on Virtual Couriershttps://www.npr.org/2021/01/16/957593528/museums-get-virtual-help-to-have-artwork-delivered-during-the-pandemic

As we begin the new year, #ARCSchat continues with the second part of our "Career Perspectives" series by talking to those just beginning their careers. Thus, we will chat with several emerging museum professionals about how they got into the field, and see if the year 2020 talked them out of it! More importantly, we'll see how their generation views the profession of collections stewardship and discuss their perspectives regarding its future.Joining for the talk are Baylee Hughes from the Denver Museum of Natural Science, Michelle Kennedy from the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, Carolyn H. López from the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles, Elizabeth Denholm, Associate Registrar at the Delaware Art Museum, Sophia Brocenos, Assistant Registrar at the National Portrait Gallery, and Rachel Smith, Collections Assistant, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, City of Waco.

Deaccessioning is not new but it has reached new levels of controversy in the current state of economic hardship facing our institutions at the moment.  In the first episode of Season 5 of the podcast Revisionist History titled “Dragon Psychology 101”, Malcolm Gladwell asks the question, ”Why not just sell something to pay the bills?” and proposes that museums are just hoarding if they refuse to sell amidst trying circumstances that result in mass layoffs and financial hardship. #ARCSchat has solicited the help of two experts to react to the episode and directly address this challenging question. Robin Cooper, the Manager of Curatorial Affairs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, joins to represent the curatorial and cultural interests at play. Nicholas O’Donnell, Partner at the law firm Sullivan & Worcester in Boston, who argued on behalf of the museum membership in the now landmark Berkshire Museum deaccession case and recently presented in front of the US Supreme Court will provide legal insight.  #RevisionistHistory(@pushkinpods)(@Gladwell)  Episode homepage and audio linkhttp://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/42-dragon-psychology-101

For the field of collections care, 2020 has been a year of challenges and change. Filled with worldwide lock downs and government-mandated travel bans, institutions have been forced to dramatically revise how they manage the care of their traveling collections. With an uncertain timeline ahead of us, are these changes temporary, or have we started to embark on a “new normal”?  As this year winds down to a close, join #ARCSchat as we discuss with panelists Errin Copple of LACMA, Marie Knidler of Louvre Abu Dhabi/Agence France Museums, Stefanii Ruta Atkins of MoMA, and Sara Buehler of the Brandywine River Museum of Art how the uncertain future of the courier might start to take shape, and what permanent changes might actually remain as we move forward.  Resources Discussed in the chat: The Registrar Hour COVID-19 Courier paper https://sites.google.com/view/the-reg... UK Registrar Group Courier Guidelines paper https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j... Art Services Work Safety Coalition Courier suggestions (Same as Registrar Hour) https://www.artservicesworkersafetyco...

"Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy." – Proverb#ARCSchat returned on November 10, at 1:00 p.m. ET, to set aflame our current assumptions about fire and to illuminate all that we misunderstand about fire preparation.  The panel fanning the flames included: -Michael Kilby, Associate Director for Fire Protection at the Smithsonian -Betsy Severance, Head Registrar at the Getty -Jared Yax, Firefighter and Collections Curator and Off-Site Facilities Manager at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum, Grand Haven, Michigan.  Additionally, we will feature guest host Rebecca Kennedy, an independent registrar in Washington, D.C., chair of the ARCS Emergency Programming Subcommittee, and collections emergency specialist.  Useful Resources: -C2C Care Webinar Fire Protection Strategies for Collections & Museums: https://www.connectingtocollections.o...-NFPA Codes Free Access: https://www.nfpa.org/Codes-and-Standa... -Research on portable fire extinguishing agents: https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/Ne...-Smithsonian Institution Archives Facing our Fears: https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/facing... 

In order to better understand how we move forward with our careers, sometimes we have to look back. AND, sometimes we also have to look sideways. Consequently, #ARCSchat in October would like to unveil a new series this season called "Career Perspectives" where we hold a round table discussion with our professional colleagues about their own careers at various stages: emerging museum professionals, mid-career, and late-career.  On October 6 we hosted with three mid-career professionals representing different types of collections from different parts of the world about how they got into the field, what their expectations were at the beginning, and what their expectations are now going forward. See the video, transcript, and live chathttps://youtu.be/7hUGZxhn2qQ Panel:Kaia Black: Special Projects and Programs Manager at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Jen Kaines: Head of Collection Services at Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK Chakira Santiago: Chief Registrar at the Museum of History, Anthropology, and Art at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.

Buddha says "Wear your ego like a loose-fitting garment." In these crazy times of furloughs, layoffs, lockdowns, and unionizing (to name a few), #ARCSchat returns to un-tailor your work attire with a second season of their YouTube Live chat with a conversation with Joan Baldwin, the 2019 ARCS conference keynote speaker, author of Leadership Matters, and prolific blogger. Joan will help us undress the institutional unrest going on at the moment and help us walk the catwalk to becoming our own best advocates. Resources referenced in this episode:Leadership Matters BlogLeadershipMatters1213.wordpress.com Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM)https://www.genderequitymuseums.com/ MIT Living Wage Calculatorhttps://livingwage.mit.edu/ Submit your phone recording for the "A Day in the Life" feature on the podcast to:info@arcsinfo.orgor call847-440-4294 and leave a message with your story. Tell us1. Who you are2. Where you work3. Your unique experience

#ARCSchat returns for our final episode of the season before a brief summer hiatus. Join us as we recap the events of this past year and introduce our new ARCS leadership, President Toni Kiser and Vice president Samantha Forsko. In this chat we explore the various new initiatives ARCS has planned for the coming year and solicit audience feedback on programming and goals you would like to see ARCS explore moving forward. Most importantly we will explore the need for an ARCS IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Task Force and the necessity for our organization to take action in response to the recent Black Lives Matter Movement that has prompted an international response. We discuss how a lack of diversity in our field affects our collections and institutions, possible changes, and how ARCS can support efforts to bring about these changes institutionally. 

We are back with another #ARCSChat bonus episode for the month of May! #ARCSChat hosted a much-requested special episode about how the numerous changes in the world resulting from COVID-19 will affect our insurance policies and requirements. Representatives from these fantastic ARCS sponsors Huntington T. Block, Willis Towers Watson, Liberty Mutual Underwriters, and Berkley Asset Protection weighed in on the issues and responded to your live questions. A special thanks goes out to all who wrote in and requested this topic!

With the recent release of AAMD’s Resolution on the use of deaccession and restricted funds during the COVID-19 pandemic, #ARCSChat hosts John T. Robinette (@CargaLatina) and Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob) reached out to various experts in the museum and legal fields to gather their insight and opinions on the impact and future change AAMD’s statement might have on art institutions throughout the United States and beyond. Join us as we interview Director of the Institute of Museum Ethics Sally Yerkovich, attorney Mark Gold, and attorneys and hosts Steven Schindler and Katie Wilson-Milne of The Art Law Podcast.

It is that time of year to dust off your emergency preparedness plans and get ready for May Day! Join #ARCSChat hosts John Robinette (@CargaLatina), Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob), and Robin Bauer Kilgo (@rbkilgo) as they speak with hosts Jenny Matthiason and Kloe Rumsey of @thecwordpodcast. We dive into some EMP basics and cross-check common areas of risk mitigation relevant in both the US and the UK. Do we also touch on a little of COVID-19 and EMP? You bet.Resources referenced in this podcast are listed below:ARCS COVID-19: http://www.arcsinfo.org/programs/resources/covid-19-resourcesThe C Word Podcast: https://thecword.show/AIC FAIC May Day: https://www.culturalheritage.org/resources/emergencies/maydayICOM IMD: http://imd.icom.museum/what-is-imd/imd-in-short/Collections Trust: https://collectionstrust.org.uk/Museum of London Object Handling: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Resources/e-learning/handling-museum-objects/

In response to the difficult times in which lending and borrowing institutions find themselves and the status of their loans, #ARCSChat brings you a special bonus episode discussing our current situation. Representatives from a variety of shipping and broker companies join hosts John Robinette (@CargaLatina) and Robin Bauer Kilgo (@rbkilgo) as they explore the ways in which shipping and loans may get handled in the upcoming months. Audience participation from the YouTube Live session is included in this episode, as well as a few bonus outtakes to keep the levity alive! Please remember to rate the podcast and share your feedback on topics and sessions by reaching out to us on Twitter @arcs4all and via email at info@arcsinfo.org. 

You know all those environmental standards we’ve been holding onto so tightly in our loan contracts? Yeah, well they’re PROBABLY wrong. That’s right - hold on to your N95s and listen in to #ARCSChat's second episode of our two-part series on loan contracts. In this discussion guests Joel Taylor, Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute, and Caitlin Spangler-Bickell, Graduate Intern at the Getty Conservation Institute and PhD candidate with the research network NACCA (New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art) join hosts John Robinette (@CargaLatina), Robin Bauer Kilgo (@rbkilgo) and Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob) to report on their ongoing research on the subject and explain why exactly we should let go of this notion. Resources discussed in the chat, as well as additional material, can be found in the Documents Exchange on the ARCS Forum.

"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." This quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower looms over this entire special episode of #ARCSchat. In it we discuss dealing with collections care in the time of the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent closing of many of our institutions. The guests on this episode consist of several members of the ARCS board discussing what their institutions do, offering some ideas and resources for what collections care looks like now, keeping staff busy and motivated, and what's happening with our loans. One important resource that was mentioned is the David Carmichael book Implementing the Incident Command System At the Institutional Level. As always, if you wish to reach out to anyone on the panel please email info@arcsinfo.org. To continue the conversation, visit the forum on the ARCS website ArcsInfo.org or contact us on Twitter at @ARCS4All.  

Better care for your collections by tearing up your existing loan contracts. Yes, you read that correctly! In a two episode series, #ARCSchat considers two important aspects of our loan contracts and why we should re-evaluate both our knowledge of the subjects and the content of our contracts. Episode 1 deconstructs our insurance requirements. Hosts John Robinette (@CargaLatina), Robin Bauer Kilgo (@rbkilgo) and Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob) are joined by guests Mary Pontillo, the National Fine Arts Practice Leader/SVP at Dewitt Stern Fine Art, and Adrienne Reid, the Vice President of Fine Art Insurance at Huntington T. Block. You can find Mary at mpontillo@dewittstern.com and Adrienne adrienne.reid@huntingtontblock.com and @reid_insures_art.

The courier conundrum: Send or don't send? We tackle the ethics and responsibility behind the decision to send a courier and all that's involved in making the decision.  This chat will work in conjunction with the courier training workshop put on by ARCS in Ft. Worth, Texas at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. This workshop will address the necessary skills required to travel as well as seek to establish a standard in the quality of supervision. We will also reference research done by ARCS about when institutions decide to send a courier and, if so, who.

Enjoy a bonus #ARCSChat podcast with hosts John, Robin and Amanda as we dive a little deeper into out Art + Museum Transparency interview and discuss current events within our field.

Happy New Year and welcome back for January’s #ARCSChat! This month hosts John Robinette (@CargaLatina) and Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob) sit down and speak with Michelle Millar Fishar (@AMTransparency), one of the founders of the Art and Museum Salary Spreadsheet, the Internship spreadsheet, and most recently, a Union spreadsheet. Our conversation dives into how the salary spreadsheet came to be, looks at some of the wider ranging labor disputes happening in the museum and collections field, and explores both the future of Art + Museum Transparency and how we can begin to enact small levels of change, creating a field of collections stewardship that is more inclusive, accessible and diverse.Below are links to the resources we discussed in our chat:Salary Spreadsheethttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_cn3afoas7NhKvHWaFKqQGkaZS5rvL6DFxzGqXQa6o/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#Internship spreadsheethttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VY3GzxL59xJ6Iv67m2Qlg0xZdq-FBiKJapCU6INqrMY/edit#gid=654169754Unionizing spreadsheethttp://rebrand.ly/unionsforall https://news.artnet.com/market/union-museum-analysis-1714716https://medium.com/@artandmuseumtransparency/a-20-20-vision-for-art-museum-transparency-for-2020-sharing-analyzing-moving-forward-3eef299cdea0https://hyperallergic.com/503089/museum-workers-share-their-salaries-and-urge-industry-wide-reform/ 

For December's #ARCSchat, we wish to compliment the November interview with Joan Baldwin of Leadership Matters and the Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM) with her keynote address that she gave at the ARCS Conference in Philadelphia last month. Please enjoy her unedited presentation by streaming or downloading the podcast from the ARCS website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher.

#ARCSChat returns with hosts Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob) and John Robinette (@CargaLatina) interviewing Joan Baldwin, ARCS 2019 Conference Keynote Speaker. While Robin Bauer Kilgo (@rbkilgo) held down the chaos of the registration desk in Philly, we examined further with Joan the themes of leadership, diversity, and gender equity in the museum field. Resources and topics covered in our talk are linked below and don’t forget to tune-in for our upcoming YouTube Live session with Michelle Millar Fisher from Art + Museum Transparency.

#ARCSChat hosts Robin Bauer Kilgo (@rbkilgo), Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob), & John Robinette (@CargaLatina) return on Tuesday, October 1 at 8pm EST to discuss Budgeting on a Shoestring! We cover relevant resources and tips when advocating for collection-based projects, discuss the development and creative management of department budgets, as well as the various ways colleagues can make a little bit of budget go a long way.

Robin Kilgo (@ARCS4all/@rbkilgo) is joined by Amanda Robinson (@ARobKabob) and John Robinette (@CargaLatina) as the panel chats live with special guest Toni Kiser, ARCS vice-president and lead #ARCSconf 2019 organizer. We’ll discuss in detail the biennial event slated for November 7 – 9, 2019 and Toni will unveil exclusive conference information that you won’t want to miss!