#ARCSchat The Post-COVID19 Courier Part 2: The Full Chicago

01/21/21 • 64 min

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 Chicago

Tiffany Charles, the Head of Exhibitions Registration at the Field Museum in Chicago

Resources discussed in the podcast are linked below:

AIC Courier Checklist https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wKvqJwPP1d72su_BXY-nCN5uGFoM0HC1U5VAyEogrPI/edit NPR Segment on Virtual Couriers https://www.npr.org/2021/01/16/957593528/museums-get-virtual-help-to-have-artwork-delivered-during-the-pandemic

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 Chicago

Tiffany Charles, the Head of Exhibitions Registration at the Field Museum in Chicago

Resources discussed in the podcast are linked below:

Previous Episode

January 2021 #ARCSChat: Career Perspectives with Emerging Museum Professionals

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.

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Installing the Butterfly Effect: Talking Collaboration w/ PACCIN & Art Pro Net

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 Net https://artpronet.com/ PACCIN Chats https://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