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SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: History Funding from Local Cultural Councils
DESCRIPTION:History Funding from Local Cultural Councils: Talking through and workshopping LCC grant applications\n \nNovember 6\, 2020\, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nA Conversation with Ymelda Laxton\, Assistant Curator at Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library\, and Heather Kowalski\, Executive Director of the Bidwell House Museum.\nSPECIAL GUEST: Lisa Simmons\, Manager of the Local Cultural Council Program\, Massachusetts Cultural Council. \nOutside of Boston\, Local Cultural Councils are a good source of funding for programming for history organizations. Applications are due on November 16. **Update: The deadline has been extended to December 14th.** What should you apply for? What makes an application likely to get funded? Join us for a conversation on cultural councils and their preferences. Plus\, we’ll be workshopping applications! Bring your draft application as well as any priorities statements by your Local Cultural Council. (Check out online application information here!)  \nThe conversation will be moderated by Penni Martorell\, curator of collections at Wistariahurst Museum and Holyoke’s City Historian. Registration is free. \nREGISTER HERE \nThis 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. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Heather Kowalski joined the Bidwell House Museum staff in the fall of 2015 after moving to the Berkshires with her husband and two children. She became Executive Director in 2017. Prior to working at the Bidwell House Museum\, Heather served as Registrar for the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh for 11 years and before that she spent six year as Assistant Registrar at the Carnegie Museum of Art\, also in Pittsburgh. Heather grew up in nearby Niskayuna\, NY and holds a BA in Art History from Penn State University.\n				\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Penni Martorell is curator of collections at Wistariahurst Museum and Holyoke’s City Historian. Martorell’s work at Wistariahurst includes managing and preserving collections and archive\, organizing history exhibits and lectures; providing opportunities for community organizations\, college classes\, school groups and the public to engage with local history through presentations and workshops. She lectures on Holyoke’s industrial history\, local textile and paper industries\, and women history makers. She has lead workshops on preserving heirlooms\, basic textile preservation and is an oral history trainer. Martorell served 5 years on the State Historic Records Advisory Board and has served 6 years as Vice President of The Pioneer Valley History Network. Her passion is book and printing history.\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Lisa Simmons is the Program Manager for the Community Initiative at the Mass Cultural Council which includes the Local Cultural Council Program. The Community Initiative works with 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts to support arts and culture in every community. In addition\, Ms. Simmons was the former deputy director of the Mass Office of Travel & Tourism.  She is the Artistic Director and Producer of the Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm)\, now in its 23rd year whose mission it is to support filmmakers\, and present films and film programs that celebrate people of color around the world.\n				\n		\n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org \nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good.
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SUMMARY:Conversations on the Commons: Six Months and Counting
DESCRIPTION:Six Months and Counting of COVID: What are you doing? \nNovember 13\, 2020\, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. \nA conversation with Nina Zannieri\, Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association\, and Katie MacDonald\, Executive Director of Old Colony History Museum \nSix months into the COVID pandemic\, we’re settling into new routines. Many organizations are implementing new versions of what it means to interpret and teach history as a public history organization. Where are you now? How do you see the coming year\, the future? What technologies are you adopting? How are you adapting them to provide quality historical experiences\, create AHA!-moments\, gain participation\, and supplant the “hands-on” experiences that are the strong suit of public history? Are you mixing and matching in-person and virtual experiences? What is going well? What is not? Join us for a conversation about the value and challenges of our transitions\, sharing our successes and also our failures so that we may\, as a field\, continue to bring indispensable history education to the public. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE. \nThis 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. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Katie has been the Executive Director of the Old Colony History Museum in Taunton\, Massachusetts since 2013. In this role\, she leads a team of five in all aspects of the museum’s mission. Under her leadership\, the museum has rebranded\, created an education department\, renovated public gallery spaces\, and enhanced its standing in the local community. Katie holds an undergraduate degree in history from UMass Amherst and an M.A. in History and Museum Studies from Tufts University.\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston\, MA since 1986. Previously\, she was Curator at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Vice Chair of the AAM from 2002-2003 and on the board from 1999 – 2003. President of the NEMA from 1998 – 2002 after many years of service on the Board. AASLH Council from 2004-2008. She sits on the board of the Freedom Trail Foundation and is also involved with several North End community groups. Ms. Zannieri is on the Advisory Committee for the Museum Studies Program at Harvard and the Public History Program at Suffolk. Recent Publications: an entry on house museums in Inclusive Historians Handbook and a chapter in Reimagining Historic House Museums: New Approaches and Proven Solutions. 2015 New England Museum Association Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 Finalist\, Commonwealth Award. BA in history from Boston College MA in Anthropology/Museum Studies from Brown University.\n				\n		\n\nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org \nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good.
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