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Conversations on the Commons: 12 months and counting of COVID
April 2, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Twelve Months and Counting of COVID-19
April 2, 2021, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
A conversation with Natalie Richards, Adult Education Coordinator at Storrowtown Village Museum, and Kate Boylan, the Director of Archives and Digital Initiatives at Wheaton College
It’s been one long year of ups and downs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are still wearing our masks and social distancing while anxiously awaiting vaccines and wondering about a “new normal.” After all this time, how are you doing? How is it affecting your organization? Are you open? What are you planning for the summer? What are your challenges in staffing, engaging visitors, and the bottom line? Join us for a peer to peer conversation about COVID-19 and the public and local history field in Massachusetts. This conversation will be moderated by Brianne Zulkiewicz, Visitor Services and Administrative Coordinator at Wistariahurst Museum.
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE!
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Natalie Richards is the Adult Education Coordinator at Storrowton Village Museum. She has previously worked as a Collections Intern and the Archivist & Historian prior to this role. Natalie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in the History of Art & Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has worked in Collections, Curation, Education, and Visitor Services at numerous museums throughout the Pioneer Valley including the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the University Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Springfield Museums.
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- Kate Boylan is director of archives and digital initiatives in Wheaton’s Madeleine Clark Wallace Library. She oversees the library’s strategic development, maintenance, preservation and curation of historical, special, and digital collections. Boylan partners with faculty, students and staff to identify materials to cultivate internal and external interdisciplinary partnerships for resource acquisition and sharing, as well as for collaborative scholarship and teaching. Boylan serves as the administrator of the Wheaton College Digital Repository, and JSTOR Forum collections, serving as liaison and support staff for many academic and institutional digital initiatives. She was previously the digital archivist at Facing History and Ourselves, Inc. in Brookline, Mass. She holds an MLIS from Simmons College, and is also a Wheaton College alumna.
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- Brianne Zulkiewicz is the Visitor Services and Administrative Coordinator at Wistariahurst Museum and serves as an associate board member for Pioneer Valley History Network. She is on track to graduate with her master’s in Public History at Central Connecticut State University in May 2021.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.