AAH Freelance and Independents Workshop Series

Public Engagement for Art Historians

Thursday 13 February 2014 11.00am – 4.00pm
The Gallery, AAH Headquarters, 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ

We welcome participants from all sectors
Art historians in all sectors are increasingly required to communicate
their research to the public, whether in the context of museums or art
galleries, schools, or other public arenas. How can we fund projects in
an environment of severely limited resources? How can they best be
delivered? And how can we evaluate projects so that we can inform future
planning? This workshop will explore these issues with experts working
in the field.

Mary Godwin
Mary Godwin is the Arts Council's Relationship Manager for Museums in
the South West. In this role she supports the development of the sector
and administers the Arts Council's funding for museums in the region.
Mary has a degree in Art History and an MA in the History of Design and
Decorative Arts. Before joining the Arts Council 2011 she worked for 20
years in curatorial and leadership roles in independent museums in
London and the South West, and as a Museum Development Officer and
museums consultant.

Gill Hart
Gill Hart has worked in Museum and Gallery Education since 2000. She
started her career at the National Gallery London, contributing to the
gallery's Adult Learning Programme and managing the Access programmes
between 2000 and 2005. Since 2005, she has worked for Glasgow Museums,
managed the Art and Wellbeing programme at the Fitzwilliam Museum and
was the Museums Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme between
2009-11. Gill returned to the National Gallery in November 2011 as Head
of Adult Learning. Gill is an experienced teacher as well as creative
programmer. Her research interests lie in exploring new approaches to
interpretation and in particular developing models where different forms
of expertise come together to deliver public engagement experiences.

Emily Pringle
Emily Pringle trained as a painter and worked for many years as an
artist, educator, consultant and researcher in a range of cultural
settings in the UK and internationally. She has a particular interest in
the role of the artist in education contexts and in developing creative
research and evaluation models. Her publications include 'What's with
the Artist? Researching Practice with Visual Arts Practitioners' in
Researching Creative Learning Methods and Issues (2011) and 'The Gallery
as a site for Creative Learning' in The Routledge International Handbook
of Creative Learning (2011). She is currently Head of Learning Practice
and Research at Tate Gallery, London where she is responsible for
strategic programme development and overseeing research and evaluation.
She is the editor of the recent publication ‘Transforming Tate Learning'
which is available at http://www.tate.org.uk/download/file/fid/30243.

Places are limited to 30 and allocated on a first-come, first-served
basis.

To register, please click here:
http://www.aah.org.uk/events/professional-development
Members £40, Concessions £30, Non-Members £55 (sandwich lunch provided)