Community Conversation: Redefining a Museum's Role

Conversation 4 | Redefining a Museum’s Role: A Cultural and Educational Resource

Thursday, April 23, 6:30pm; Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis

Please join Pacific Northwest College of Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft and invited members of Oregon's creative community to engage in the fourth session in a series of conversations about the anticipated integration of two of Portland's most venerable institutions, that have, in recent years, reinvented themselves to respond to changing educational and cultural needs.

Through these conversations, we explore the broader concepts relevant to creating a more vibrant and expanded educational and cultural institution that will strengthen its contribution to the cultural voice and economic vitality of the region.

Panelists: Nan Curtis, faculty, PNCA, multidisciplinary artist and independent curator; Christina Olsen, director of education and public programs, Portland Art Museum; Stephanie Snyder, John and Anne Hauberg Curator and Director, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College; Linda Tesner, director, The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College; Namita Gupta Wiggers, curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft.

www.pnca.edu; www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org