New Mentoring Program The Registrar’s Committee of the American Alliance of Museums (RCAAM) and the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS) invite you to participate in the RCS Mentoring Program (Mentoring for the Future). This is a special opportunity that brings together RC-AAM and ARCS in an effort to mentor emerging museum professionals who have dedicated themselves to a career in registration and collections work.
If you’re an emerging or mid-career professional and would like assistance navigating the field, or would like to expand your knowledge base and receive helpful advice about loans, exhibitions or anything registration related, then consider applying for a mentor to help guide you. If you are an established professional, with experience you are willing to share, or want to connect with a new generation of registrars and collections specialists, then consider applying to be a mentor. The RCS Mentoring Program committee will work to match mentors to mentees. Relationships will be established using three criteria: museum discipline (art, science, history, etc.); need (career advice, loans, database, etc.), and geographic location. While not all mentorships will be in the same city, we will do our best to connect people who are close. Once connected, mentees are invited to reach out to their mentor and solicit the advice they need. The Committee will check in occasionally to ensure a connection has been made, but the level of communication is on the participants to determine. While the mentor-mentee relationship is expected to last one year, we encourage long-term connections. Application forms can be found here: http://www.arcsinfo.org/ programs/registrars-and-collections-specialists-mentoring-program If you have questions about the program, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you. Sebastian Encina (RC-AAM) & Jeanne Benas (ARCS) Mentoring Co-Chairs rcsmentoringprog...@gmail.com Saving the Now..... Our sister institution, the International Institute for Conservation (IIC) is holding its 2016 World Congress in Los Angeles. Saving the Now: Crossing Boundaries to Conserve Contemporary Works, September 12th to the 16th, is an event of interest to all those involved in collecting and managing contemporary art collections. For more info go to http://www.arcsinfo.org/news-events/event/199/1/institute- for-conservation-iic-2016-world-congress-saving-the-now- crossing-boundaries-to-conserve-contemporary-works or https://www.iiconservation.org/congress.
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