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On-Demand Programs: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
AAM’s DEAI programs are a great first step to learning about diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. Programs cover topics such as trans allyship, making art accessible, and responding to visitors with neurodivergent abilities.
On-demand programs are free to Individual, Ally, Industry, Tier 2, and Tier 3 Members. Be sure to log in to your membership account to access these programs.
The Uses of Discomfort: LGBTQ Collections Their Repositories and Their Legacies
People left out of traditional cultural narratives are forced to become the custodians of their own histories. For queer institutions, this means collecting stigmatized materials that other …
Museum Accessibility Helping Patrons Who Are Blind to See Your Exhibitions
Audio description (AD), a relatively inexpensive and readily available technology, broadens the museum experience for all people and particularly for patrons who cannot see or have low …
Is That Hung White? Revisiting Issues of Race and Inclusion in Exhibitions
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. In 2019, we got real and vulnerable about the consequences stemming from the lack of diversity and …
Lessons in Equity from Culturally‐specific Museums
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Many culturally‐specific museums are committed to providing space, a consistent platform, and an …
Taking a Moment: Reflecting on our DEAI Responsibilities, webinar from March 2021
Handout of additional resources Slides from webinar In this webinar, Dina Bailey of Mountain Top Vision discussed how the last year has affected diversity, equity, accessibility, and …
#AAM2021 Elevate Stage Session: Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Museum Boards
How do we diversify the makeup of museum boards while promoting artists, curators, leaders, and museums who preserve and tell the stories of people of color? Many museums are challenged …
Stories of Inclusion: Responding to Visitors with Cognitive, Developmental and Emotional Disabilities
In this recorded webinar, accessibility experts and advocates explore the issues, challenges, and successes of addressing the needs and expectations of visitors and families of visitors …
Telling Trans Stories Through Collections and Exhibitions
View this recorded webinar organized by the co-chairs of the AAM LGBTQ+ Alliance’s Task Force for Transgender Inclusion, panelists Margaret Middleton and Eric Feingold share their …
Trans Allyship 101
View this recorded webinar organized by the AAM LGBTQ+ Alliance. LGBTQ+ Alliance Chairperson Anna Woten, and Task Force for Transgender Inclusion Co-chairs Alison Kennedy and Alex Lussenhop …
How Immersion Makes Art Accessible
Watch this keynote from the two-day convening titled, "Immersion in Museums: AR, VR or Just Plain R?," hosted by the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit…
Stories of Inclusion: Responding to Visitors who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Blind or with Low Vision
In this recorded webinar, accessibility experts and advocates explore the issues, challenges, and successes of addressing the needs and expectations of visitors and other facility or …
Stories of Inclusion: ADA@25 and Universal Design at Cultural Institutions
This recorded webinar will help guide you in finding approaches to sharing information and telling compelling stories that can help audiences make meaning of their museum ex…