AIC's Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) and the Equity and Inclusion Committee (E&IC) have joined forces and are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar, “Gender Equity in the Conservation Field,” taking place on Wednesday, April 24th from 12:00-1:00 pm EDT.
Did you know that women currently comprise over 75% <https://www.culturalheritage.org/docs/default-source/reports/compensation-survey-2014.pdf> of the workforce in art conservation? Yet, women in our field statistically do not command the same pay rate as men with comparable education and experience. How does being a “pink collar field” affect gender equity, and what can emerging conservation professionals do to promote and support the fair allocation of resources and decision-making power to both men and women? Find out in this webinar! It is never too early to begin advocating for gender equity in the workplace. ECPN and E&IC have invited two speakers to provide their perspectives on this topic. Joan Baldwin and Anne Ackerson, the authors of the book Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Workplace, will discuss issues of gender equity and leadership as they pertain to the conservation field and to the museum sector at large. ECPN and E&IC are seeking questions for the Q&A session following the speakers’ presentations. To submit your questions in advance, please post in the comments section below or send them via email to [email protected]. Questions will be accepted until the morning of the webinar or can be submitted during the presentations via the GoToWebinar platform. Attendance is free and open to all AIC members. Please register here <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/87145490389802499> to watch the webinar. If you are unable to view the program on April 24th,or are not a member of AIC, the full video will be recorded and uploaded onto the AIC YouTube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/user/aiconservation/> following the broadcast. This webinar is the first of a series of educational programs supported by the Department of Art Conservation, University of Delaware, in honor of Bruno Pouliot. ECPN is grateful to the University of Delaware for this opportunity to celebrate Bruno’s legacy as a mentor and educator and to commemorate his passion for the conservation profession. Please see this announcement <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mO98ulBIg8Crd2yr2I0iAEhwthOLOu3hmYE6MBm9wKM/edit?usp=sharing> for more information. Please see below to learn more about our speakers: A former museum director, JOAN BALDWIN is the Curator of Special Collections at The Hotchkiss School. With Anne Ackerson, she is the co-author of Leadership Matters (2013) and Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Field (2017). She and Ackerson have just completed work on a revision of Leadership Matters, scheduled for publication in 2019. She is the principal writer for the Leadership Matters <https://leadershipmatters1213.wordpress.com/> blog with reached 58,000 readers in 2017. Her work has also appeared in The Museum Blog Book, "History News," and "Museum" Magazine, Museopunks, and "The Guardian." She is a co-founder of the Gender Equity in Museums Movement <https://www.genderequitymuseums.com/>, and teaches in the Johns Hopkins University museum studies program. ANNE W. ACKERSON is a former museum director, director of the Museum Association of New York, and director of the National Council of State Archivists. She represented the Council in a multi-year IMLS-funded project exploring the leadership needs among museums, libraries and archives. Anne is currently a contractor/consultant to cultural and educational nonprofits, specializing in leadership and management issues, and meeting facilitation. With Joan H. Baldwin, she is the co-author of Leadership Matters, a book examining the history of museum leadership for the 21st century, and Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Workplace. She leads a course in leadership and administration for the American Association for State and Local History and co-teaches museum leadership with Baldwin for Johns Hopkins University. She is a co-founder of the Gender Equity in Museums Movement (GEMM) <https://www.genderequitymuseums.com/>. Jen Munch ECPN Webinar Coordinator, 2017-2019 Graduate Fellow in Art Conservation, SUNY Buffalo State (M.A., C.A.S. 2019) Graduate Intern in Paintings Conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC [email protected] ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
