Exhibition Label Writing and Audience
Engagement
In collaboration with the Curators Committee
(CurCom), the Education Committee (EdCom), and National Association for Museum
Exhibition (NAME), Professional Networks of the American Alliance of
Museums
Exhibition
labels can be an important means to deeper audience engagement. This program
provides several approaches for including audience voices and telling intriguing
stories that can help audiences make connections as part of their museum
experience. Winners from past AAM Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing
Competitions share their insights about the variety of label writing styles that
help people to connect with ideas.
Presenters
Sarah Bartlett, senior exhibition
developer, SplitRock Studios, Wilmington, NC; Susan Day, director of education, Dar Al Athar al
Islamiyyah Museum, Kuwait;
Shiralee
Hudson,
interpretive planner, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Kathy Talley-Jones, writer and
interpretive planner, Los Angeles, CA; Benjamin Filene, director of public history, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro (CurCom); Jenny-Sayre Ramberg, director, planning
& design, exhibits & design, National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD
(EdCom/NAME); James Burns, executive director,
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson (CurCom chair)