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Create, Connect, Catalyze: YouthReach in FY24

Create, Connect, Catalyze: YouthReach in FY24

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 13, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.13.2024 Erik Holmgren, Manager of Advancement and Strategic Partnerships; Amy Chu, Program Officer; and Käthe Swaback, Program Officer Creative Youth Development | YouthReach New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Apprentices participating in a Seaweed public...
Celebrating our Arts-Vibrant Communities

Celebrating our Arts-Vibrant Communities

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 12, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.12.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs SMU DataArts’ Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2024,Ranked by Per Capita Supply, Demand, andGovernment Support for the Arts A week ago Mass Cultural Council celebrated the news that Massachusetts...
HLI Takes Public History to the Streets

HLI Takes Public History to the Streets

by American Association for State and Local History | Dec 11, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession

By Andrea Jones, Director, History Leadership InstituteWith Nicole Martinez LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Curator, Indiana Historical SocietyDoes our daily grind stand in the way of creating necessary change in the field of public history? With the constant Zoom...
Mass Cultural Council Seeks $28M in the FY26 State Budget

Mass Cultural Council Seeks $28M in the FY26 State Budget

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 11, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.11.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Budget Mass Cultural Council, the Commonwealth’s independent state arts agency, is primarily funded each year through the Commonwealth’s General Appropriations Act, often referred to as the annual state...
What’s the Mass Leads Act Got for the Cultural Sector?

What’s the Mass Leads Act Got for the Cultural Sector?

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 10, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.10.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Yvonne Hao, Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development and member of our governing Council, speaks at a ceremonial bill signing event for the Mass Leads Act in Cambridge. In March Governor...
Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

by American Association for State and Local History | Dec 9, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession

By Joan H. Baldwin Decades ago, when I was offered my first job as a county historical society director, I felt like the saint of neglected objects. I worked in the proverbial privileged, white person, helping a wealth of things speak in new ways. Along the way, I’d...
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