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Tennessee Association of Museums
"TAM Celebrates 50 Years and 50 More!"
50th Anniversary Annual Meeting
The Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, Nashville, TN
March 30-April 1, 2010


Updated June 28 2009    
Click on the words in BLUE to go to that area of the 2010 Annual Meeting Page.

 Schedule of Sessions
 
Hotel Registration          
Meeting Registration
TAM Awards      
Humanities Scholarships    
TAM Scholarships

Exhibitor Info    Sponsor Info   Advertising Info   
Auction Info
Museum Match
     
Education Programs Marketplace of Ideas
Workshop Registration
Chattanooga Zoo Tour Registration

Attendee List


 
  Comments about the last TAM Meeting.
Rachel South enjoyed the TAM Meeting in Chattanooga. To see her note, click Rachel South.
 
 


2010 Hotel Accommodations at The Chattanoogan

We are excited to announce that the 2010 TAM meeting will be held at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel on West End Avenue in Nashville, TN. To make your reservation go to


 
  Meeting Registration    

Early bird meeting registrations will be available in a few months. Please check back in September.
This year we gave away two free registrations for the 2010 meeting. The winners were Amy Vickers with the Cookeville Museums and Roosevelt Whitfield with the Matt Gardner Historical House Museum. Congratulations!
 
   Attendee List will be available prior to the meeting. In order to save paper, we are offering this electronically instead of having printed copies at the meeting.
If you would like a copy of the 20009 Attendee List, click List.
 
 
Keynote Speaker -
 

 
 
 

Sessions Schedule

Click here for the Updated 2009 TAM Meeting Schedule of Sessions


For a quick overview of the meeting sessions & events click on At A Glance.


 
  Education Programs Marketplace of Ideas
Education Programs Marketplace of Ideas is a new way to share your
"recipes of success" in Education programming.
To sign up and join this session go to Marketplace.
 
  Exhibitors
Its not too early to be thinking about being an exhibitor at the TAM Meeting in 2010 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel on West End Avenue in Nashville, TN. We have a great space for exhibitors for the meeting. If you are interested in being an exhibitor or if you have any questions you can call the TAM phone number 866-390-3638 or by emailing info@tnmuseums.org. Exhibitor Fee includes business luncheon and evening events for up to two exhibitors. To download the exhibitor information, just click on 2010 Exhibitor Form.

2009 TAM Exhibitors 

Case Antiques, Inc.
LaPaglia & Associates
Stories Past
The Creative Company
The History Workshop
1220 Exhibits

Sponsorships
Sponsorships for the TAM Annual Meeting are encouraged from any individual or organization interested in providing additional support to TAM. These organizations will be acknowledged in the Conference Program as well as with signage where appropriate. To find out more go to Sponsorships.

2009 TAM Sponsors & Hosts

Creative Discovery Museum
Chattanooga African American Museum
LaPaglia & Associates

Advertisements
Advertisement space will be available in the annual conference program. The deadline for receipt of ad/art will be the end of February 2009. Digital ads and art can be sent on disc or via email to info@tnmuseums.org. Please have all images as jpeg, tif, or pdf. Payment must accompany the ad/art or be received before the deadline for the advertisement to be listed.  Click on Advertisers for more info and ad rates.


 
  Museum Match

Museum Match is an informal mentoring program for museum professionals that will commence at the TAM annual conference held in Nashville March 30-April 1, 2010. The mission of Museum Match is to strengthen the museum community in Tennessee by pairing emerging professionals with experienced professionals.

To serve as a mentor, we ask that you have at least 5 years experience in the museum industry. For more information, please contact Jessie Foster at 615.744.4902 or jfoster@fristcenter.org.

We hope you will consider participating in the Museum Match program!

Click on Museum Match Application to read and print application.



 
  Humanities Tennessee Scholarships     

Twenty  individuals from eleven organizations were recipients of the 2009 Humanities Tennessee scholarship program.  They were:

Campbell Culture Coalition, LaFollette: Jo Anne Myers, Gerry Myers
Cumberland Homesteads Tower Museum, Crossville: Vickie Houston
Dyer County Historical Society, Dyersburg: JD Stephens, Barbara Stephens
Dickson-Williams Mansion, Greeneville: Kimberly Bublat, Roger Hankins
Dockery Association, Knoxville: Paul Dockery
Historic Watertown, Watertown: Lisa Chesley, Donna Delmas
Matt Gardner Homestead Museum, Elkton: Roosevelt Whitfield,
Nathanael Greene Museum, Greeneville: Randi Nott, Betty Fletcher
Pleasant Hill Historical Society, Pleasant Hill: Jeanne Chappell-Kingsbury,
          Chris Gulick
Tom & O.E. Stigall Museum, Humboldt: Jerry Marable, Johnny Cyrus
White County Heritage Museum, Sparta: Bill Hurteau, Peggie Hurteau

Congratulations to all and we look forward to seeing you at the meeting!.

Humanities Tennessee and the Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM) are pleased to announce our joint scholarship program for the 2009 TAM conference. This initiative stems from our organizations' commitment to provide opportunities for professional and organizational development of Tennessee's museums and humanities community. Past conference sessions covered relevant topics such as collections care, exhibit design, and fundraising. Each scholarship provides two nights lodging at the Doubletree Hotel, all meals provided by the conference, and conference registration fees. Scholarship recipients will be responsible only for their mileage , and an institutional TAM membership at a cost of $50.00.

The scholarships are available to volunteers without museum related backgrounds who work with a nonprofit museum or organization that is starting a museum. Organizations with paid, professionally trained staff are not eligible, nor are previous scholarship recipients. Preference will be given to applicants whose organizations are new to TAM.
Interested organizations must submit a simple application form in order to receive a scholarship.

For questions about scholarships or to receive an application form, please contact Melissa Davis at Humanities Tennessee by phone, 615-770-0006 x16, or by email, melissa@humanitiestennessee.org. For questions about the conference, please contact John Lancaster of TAM by phone 1-866-390-3638, or email, info@tnmuseums.org.


 
  2009 TAM Scholarships  

NOTE:
  This is separate from the Humanities Tennessee Scholarships.

The Tennessee Association of Museums awards three Scholarships to the annual meeting, usually one to a qualified recipient from each Grand division of the state.  Each scholarship recipient receives full conference registration fee waivers, accommodations for two nights at the Conference hotel and a transportation allowance of up to $50.

TAM established this scholarship program to encourage students to enter the museum field, to promote museum studies in Tennessee’s higher education institutions, and to encourage networking opportunities among new museum professionals.

ELIGIBILITY:
Undergraduate students, graduate students, museum interns, and first-year museum professionals may apply for a TAM scholarship.  They must be residents of Tennessee, be employed in Tennessee, or attend a school in Tennessee.

APPLICATION GUIDELINES:
Applicants should send a letter of application to the TAM mailing address.  The letter should be no more than one page in length and should include the applicant’s mailing address, daytime phone, reasons for wanting to attend the Conference and a brief description of interest and experience in museums.  In addition, applicants should include a resume and the name and phone number of at least one reference who can attest to the applicant’s interest in the museum field. All applications should be sent to the TAM Office address or email to info@tnmuseums.org.

The winners of the 2009 TAM Scholarships are:

Mary Carter, Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College

Genevieve Joyner, Historical Interpreter& Museum Educator, Belle Made Plantation,

Amy Rohmiller, Graduate Research Assistant, Albert Gore Research Center, MTSU

Congratulations to the 2009 winner!

IF YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE, PLEASE  NOTIFY SOMEONE YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM ATTENDING THE TAM CONFERENCE!


 
  Auctions
This year we are going to have another great silent auction. One will be set up in the Exhibit Hall and the other will be of higher dollar amounts at the Thursday Evening Event. Be sure to bring your checkbook, because we don't take credit cards.

 
  TAM Awards Nominations

Its time to be thinking about who you will nominate as your special 2009 accomplishments for a TAM Award of Excellence at the 2009 meeting.
The deadline for sending in nominations is yet to be announced.

If you have questions about the nomination instructions, please contact John Lancaster, at 866-390-3638
.
For TAM Award Guidelines and Nomination Form click on Guidelines.

The area representatives are as follows:

Northeast Tennessee Representative: 
Theresa Burchete-Anderson, Director, Carroll Reece Museum

Middle Northeast Tennessee Representative: 
Andy Simon, Operations Manager, Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center

Southeast Tennessee Representative: 
Lollie Bekkevold, Museum Services Coordinator/Curator, Museum Center at 5ive Points

Middle Tennessee Representative: 
Hillary Steinwinder, Manager of Public Programs, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art

West Tennessee Representative:
Alisa Bradley, Museum Manager, Mississippi River Museum

For Rep contact information and county information click on TAM Awards Committee


The 2008 TAM Awards Dinner and Ceremony was held at The Chattanoogan Hotel. It was a wonderful evening to recognize and honor Tennessee museums for their professionalism, creativity, scholarship, and public service.
Congratulations to all the winners!

2008 TAM Award Recipients -

Awards of Excellence, Medium Sized Museums:

Napoleon in Egypt and Egyptomania in Tennessee, Frank H. McClung Museum, Temporary Exhibition

Time Made Real: The Carvings of Tim Lewis, Customs House Museum and Cultural Center, Publication/Catalog

Bicentennial Celebration of President Andrew Johnson’s Birth, The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, Special Event

Zoo Front Entrance Capital Campaign, Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park, Special Recognition

Commendation, Medium Sized Museums:

2007-2008 Annual Report, Chattanooga Zoo, Publication

Awards of Excellence, Large Museums:

Artists Collect: The Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong Private Collection, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Temporary Exhibition

Space Chase and the New Sudekum Planetarium, Adventure Science Center, Permanent Exhibition

Masterworks of Fabergé, The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, Publication

Strokes of Genius-RENOIR-the Art of Pierre-Auguste & Alexandre Seed Packet, Tennessee State Museum, Novelty

Scarecrows! (Advertising), Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, Publication/Flat Paper

Space Chase and the new Sudekum Planetarium, Adventure Science Center, Press Kit

Exploration Station: Artists Collect, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, Educational Programming

The River Inside: John Guider’s Amazing Journey, Tennessee State Museum, Educational Programming

Commendations, Large Museums:

Bone Detectives Lab, Adventure Science Center, Educational Programming

Bagels and Barbeque: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee; Tennessee State Museum in Collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, Jewish Community Federation of Greater Chattanooga, Knoxville Jewish Alliance and Memphis Jewish Federation; Special Recognition

Awards of Excellence, Small Museums:

At Home in Appalachia: A Day in the Life of Sarah and Jonah, Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, Permanent Exhibition

Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee, East Tennessee Historical Society, Permanent Exhibition

Faces of Power: Ancient Coins of the Biblical World, The Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum, Temporary Exhibition

Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee, East Tennessee Historical Society, Publication - Audio-Visual / CD

Voices of the Land: The people of East Tennessee, Grand Opening and History Fair, East Tennessee Historical Society, Special Event

“Andrew Johnson: Heritage, Legacy and Our Constitution,”A Celebration of the Bicentennial Of Andrew Johnson and The 221st Anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, President Andrew Johnson Museum & Library, Special Event

“Dan the Man,” Dan MacDonald; East Tennessee Historical Society; Volunteerism

Barry VanWinkle, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Volunteerism

Commendations, Small Museums:

Ancient Worlds Uncovered: Windows into the World of the Bible, The Biblical Resource Center and Museum, Permanent Exhibition

Sutton General Store, Granville Museum, Inc., Permanent Exhibition

A T-Rex Named Sue, East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum, Blockbuster Exhibition

Coordinating Brochure Set: Bringing History to Life, Making History Personal & A New Adventure Begins Here!, East Tennessee Historical Society, Publication/Flat Paper

Button Whizzer, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage center, Novelty

Concert Series Tabletop Tri-Fold, Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Publication/Flat Paper

Hands on History: Native Americans of East Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Educational Programming

History, Heritage and the Constitution, Doak House Museum, Educational Programming


 

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