Made it to USSEA

Made it to Wichita State University this afternoon for the USSEA/InSEA regional conference. This year's theme is Building a Civil Society through art. The theme was the first thing that interested me, to submit a proposal for being a breakout session for this conference.

The last couple of months Danielle and I have been preparing for this event. We are facilitating a 70-minute workshop in which we will be bringing up the structure and design of The Museum of Street Culture to lead into a conversation about the "Big Question" what is a Museum and what is its civic and social role.

The workshop portion is set up like a think tank in where small groups will be given scenarios of city or town populations and what crisis that population is facing. Some of the crisis scenarios include drugs, high crime, illiteracy, racism or bigotry, to name a few. The objective is to explore what the museums can do to help advocate and bring to the attention of the population of this crisis in hopes that change will occur.

Below is the pdf of the poster we created for this event.

I will write again later this weekend to let you all know how the session went.