This speech is a modified version of the paper “Intentional Civility” and includes the worksheets. This is a useful paper for staff to look at their assumptions of normative behaviour in the
I had the honor of being a keynote speaker at the MuseumNext conference in Melbourne Australia in 2017. The paper I delivered in both on their website and uploaded and linked here.
In 2010 I was invited to speak at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago under the direction of Madeleine Grynsztejn. It was and remains an experimental art museum offering a diversity of
“Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly” was about the Smithsonian Institution after I had left. I had been the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Museums and the Deputy Director for Public Program Plann
In 1990 I was asked to participate in a debate about fairness in museums for the American Association of museums. My second was Joallyn Archambault who was director of the American Indian Pro
In 1995 a shortened version of OFFERINGSAFERSPACES was published in the Journal of Museum Education (Volume 21, #1, Fall, 14-16). It came from a much larger paper that I did not reread for
This paper, published in Curator in 2001 (Curator 44/1, January 2001, pp 87-113) was written after I had carefully reread Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of the Great American City and real
