This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. On May 6, 2021, arts professionals from around the country convened to explore best practices for nurturing diverse talent within museums and cultural institutions. Advancing Change: The Future of Museum Leadership was a virtual summit that presented lessons learned from over 30 years […]
IRB 101: What are they? Why do they exist?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Last week, I led an IRB 101 workshop for the Visitor Studies Association. IRB is the acronym for Institutional Review Board. That short three-letter acronym, IRB, can instill a lot of fear and anxiety in researchers and evaluators for multiple reasons. For one, […]
Gen Z are Investigators: What Does This Mean for Cultural Institutions?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Summer is here, and with it, a new guest blogger series! Today we are excited to share a new post by our friend Sadiya Akasha of Sitara Systems. Sadiya is a researcher, product designer, and expert on Gen Z (people born between 1995 […]
Collaboration, Expertise, and Museum Education: Reflections from a COVID-era Furlough
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. By: Sarah Boyd Alvarez In early April I returned to work after a three month furlough. While being furloughed was not welcome news in an already challenging year for the field of museum education, this period away from my job as an art […]
Anti-racism Pledge: 7-month Update
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Seven months ago, RK&A committed to anti-racist practice. To hold ourselves accountable, we write these updates to publicly document the work we have been doing and work still to do. We at RK&A, individually and collectively, pledge our commitment to being anti-racist—which we […]
Illuminating Culture and Nature Equally: Generative Thinking at a Critical Time
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. By: Emlyn Koster Spurred by the art-dominated sections on Museums in The New York Times, Emlyn reflects on this sector’s pressing need for a balanced profile between people/society and non-human life/nature. Eminence of Art Museums Titled ‘Reinventing the Future,’ the May 23, 2021 […]
The Chief Fill-in-the-Blank Officer: A Trend in Museum Restructuring
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. Combining experiences at the helm of nature and science museums with insights from literature and courses on leadership, Emlyn Koster reflects on the corporate roots of this trend and its application to the museum sector. An unfortunate paradox surrounds the subject of organizational […]
Improving Our Museum Labels Through A Harm Reduction Lens: Part 4
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. By: Rachel Nicholson Having drafted new labels, we want to ensure our approach is actually meaningful to our audiences at the Nelson-Atkins before putting them on the walls. We’re currently in the process of evaluating our new labels to better understand their impact […]
Improving Our Museum Labels Through A Harm Reduction Lens: Part 3
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. By: Rachel Nicholson, Jocelyn Edens, and Ariana Chaivaranon In our workshops with curatorial colleagues (which we wrote about in the last post), we continually heard certain ideas rise to the surface about shared principles for interpretive text at the Nelson-Atkins. These included: Complexity: […]
Join us for the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Virtual Summit on Diversity
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at rka-learnwithus.com. RK&A was honored to work with the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2019 to evaluate their longstanding Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellowship, which prepares outstanding museum professionals from historically underrepresented groups (particularly people of color) to become leaders in the field. The Bearden […]