2026 Conference Schedule

**Schedule is subject to change**

Date	Time	Session Title
TUESDAY, June 9th	9am-12pm	Leading the 21st-Century Academic Museum Leadership Intensive
	8:30am-5pm	Registration Check-in Open
	12pm-5pm	Sponsor Set Up
	12:30pm-2:30pm	Networking Fun!
	2:30pm-2:45pm	Coffee Break
	3pm-4:15pm	– Empowering Creative Decisions: Student Art-Buying at Academic Museums and Galleries – From Page to Preservation: Narrative Power and Creative Fundraising – Quilting Connections: Creative Strategy, Curation, and Collaboration – Museum as Creative Media Lab: Bridging Museum Practice and Classroom Innovation through Digital Heritage Storytelling – Creativity as Method and Survival: Collaborating Across Disciplines to Navigate Ideological and Institutional Tensions – Truth, Repair & Material Worlds: Relational Approaches to Exhibitions and Engagement
	6pm-8pm	Opening Reception and Keynote Showcase
WEDNESDAY, June 10	8am-5pm	Registration Check-in Open
	9am-10:15am	– Let’s Get Into It: Student Exhibitions Challenges, Triumphs, and Lessons Learned – Deaccession is Not a Dirty Word: Deaccessioning as Creative Collection Stewardship, Part 1 – Creativity as Institutional Transformation: Student, Post-Bacc, and Community Collaboration at the Weisman Art Museum – Unlocking Campus Partnerships: Maximizing Existing Resources for Cross-Campus Collaboration – Fashion & Feather: Building Creative Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships – Outside Office Hours: A Cross-Institutional Case Study for Reimagining Faculty and Staff Exhibitions for the 2026
	10:15am-10:45am	Coffee Break
	10:45am-12pm	– From Mission to Meme – Learning through Doing: Visitor Interactives that Deepen Engagement – From Shelf to Showcase: Process Meets Problem Solving in Library Exhibition Planning – Creative Strategies for Building Institutional Buy-In in Shifting Academic Landscapes – Embracing Change: Collections Care Through Purposeful Apprenticeships – AAMG Certification and Core Documents
	12pm-1:15pm	Lunch and AAMG Annual Meeting
	1:15pm-2:45pm	– Leadership Training Models for Academic Museum and Gallery Professionals – Multisensory Engagement Strategies to Expand Accessibility – Activating Alumni: Creatively Engaging an Underutilized Ally – Build a Toolkit to Address Stubborn K-12 Engagement Challenges – Where the Heck is Yucca Fountain?: A Case Study in Collaboration and Experimentation – Cooking and Creativity: Leveraging a Campus Global Kitchen for Museum Team Building and Student Outreach
	2:45pm-3:15pm	Coffee Break
	3:15pm-4:45pm	– Nurturing a museum culture that values, rewards, and inspires “genius” and creativity – You Want To DO WHAT in Our Museum? – Drawing Collections: Slow-seeing to connect with collections, one another, and yourself. – Creative Problem-Solving for Attendance Tracking and Transparency – Deaccession is Not a Dirty Word: Deaccessioning as Creative Collection Stewardship, Part 2 – AAMG Field Wide Survey Use and Overview
	6pm-8pm	Affinity Dinners (more information coming soon)
	7:45pm	Bloomberg Happy Hour
THURSDAY, June 11	8am-5pm	Registration Check-in Open
	9am-10:15am	– Faculty as Connectors: Strengthening the Pipeline from Academic Programs to Academic Museums – Exhibition as Creative Process: Innovation for Complex Times – Amplifying Asian American Community Voices: Innovations in Collaborative-Curation for Academic Museums – Transformative Potential: Academic Museums and the Future of Higher Education – Doing a Lot with a Little: Creative Solutions for Small Museums – Censorship Concerns with AAMG
	10:15am-10:45am	Coffee Break
	10:45am-12pm	– Curating Collaboratively with Campus and Community: Strategies for Exhibition and Program Development – Quilting Connections: Creative Strategy, Curation, and Collaboration – Creatively Leveraging a Creative Workforce: Innovative Student Position Development at an Art & Design School – Reimagining African Material Culture in a University Collection: Student-Led Context Retrieval Research as Decolonial Practice – Centering Queer Voices with Campus Collections – Access to Art History for Incarcerated Students: Teaching with Collections Behind Bars
	12pm-1:15pm	Lunch
	1:15pm-2:45pm	– Getting what you need: a primer on working with campus facilities on your project. – Teaching Experiments: Exploratory Pedagogies and Faculty Partnerships – Audio and Imagination: How Audio Tours Spark Creativity – Our Own Solo Show: Strategies for a Staff of One – Creative Compromise: Sustaining Public Engagement and Academic Relevance in a Time of Constraint – Creative Approaches to Exhibiting Challenging Content: Navigating Conversations about Gun Violence in Academic Galleries
	2:45pm-3:15pm	Coffee Break
	3:15pm-4:45pm	– A Curator, an Educational Developer, and Five Faculty Walk into a Museum – What Happened Next – Inspiring Creativity: How adding Teaching Artist positions Transforms Community Programs – Material Matchmaking: Creative Curricular Engagement – Press Record to Engage: How Simple Audio Tools Creatively Spark Student and Visitor Engagement – Centering collaborative design and creative play in health and wellness programming
FRIDAY, June 12	Timing varies	Excursions!