2007 Annual Meeting and Conference

Transforming Our Institutions:
Challenging Histories & Engaging Community

May 24 (8:00 am – 8:00 pm) & 25 (8:00 am – 5:30 pm), 2007
Mission Memorial Auditorium, 550 South King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

Post Conference
May 26 (9:00 am – 4:00 pm), 2007
Paki Conference Room II, Bishop Museum

THURSDAY, May 24, 2007

Registration & Continental Breakfast

Welcome
Betty Lou Kam (President, HMA; Vice President of Cultural Resources, Bishop Museum)

Keynote Address: The Perils of Public History: Controversy and Cultural Institutions

James O. Horton (Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies, George Washington University; and Visiting Professor of American Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

BREAK

1. Panel: Challenging Historical Interpretations
Exhibitions can encourage visitors to view the world from another perspective.  Panelists discuss new interpretative strategies that challenge and expand our understanding of history and historical practices.

Akemi Kikumura-Yano (Senior Vice President, Japanese American National Museum and National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los Angeles)
Noelle Kahanu (Project Manager, Bishop Museum)
Daniel Martinez (Historian, USS Arizona Memorial)
Moderator: Karen Kosasa (Director, Museum Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)

2. What's New?
Anne Smoke (Special Projects Consultant for Museums and the Arts)

LUNCH
Box lunches provided w/ registration

3. Roundtable: Innovative Partnerships
Museums and related institutions are finding creative ways to support their mission and programming.  Panelists reveal how they solved a problem with the help of a partner.

Marilyn Cristofori (Chief Executive Officer, Hawai'i Arts Alliance)
Peter Van Dyke (Manager, Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden)
Susan Shaner (State Archivist, Hawai'i State Archives)
Wei Fang (Independent Consultant)
Alan Hong (Manager, Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve)
Moderator: Geogianna Lagoria (Director, The Contemporary Museum)

BREAK

4. 'Budget 101' Teaser
Kilikina Mahi, Executive Administrator, Ka'ala Farm, Inc.

5. Panel: The Larger Vision: Integrating Digital Projects
How can digital projects support and/or expand the mission of institutions in creative and practical ways?  Panelists discuss large and small projects and their relationship to other activities and partnerships.

Susan Sayer Batton (Deputy Director, Honolulu Academy of Arts)
Akemi Kikumura-Yano (Senior Vice President, Japanese American National Museum and National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, Los Angeles)
Michael Thomas (Acting Collections Manager, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Herbarium)
Moderator: Robert Saarnio (Associate Director and Historic Property Manager, Shangri La)

BREAK

6. Nuts & Bolts Session: Archival Materials: Protecting Your Collections
Larry Gates (President, Metal Edge Inc.)

PAU SESSIONS

HMA Reception and Award Ceremony
First Recipient of HMA’s Ka Lama Award: Agnes Conrad
Cafe Laniakea, YWCA, 1040 Richards St.

FRIDAY, May 25, 2007

Registration & Continental Breakfast

7. Panel: Understanding NAGPRA: National and Local Issues
After 16 years, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is still surrounded by controversy and confusion.  Panelists clarify issues and provide insights on developments at the state and national levels.

C. Timothy McKeown (Senior Program Coordinator, National NAGPRA Program, National Park Service)
Linda Lee Farm (Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel)
Kai Markel (Director, Native Rights, Land and Culture; Office of Hawaiian Affairs)
June Noelani Cleghorn (Cultural Resources Manager, Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i) 
Moderator: Lani Ma'a Lapilio (Ku'iwalu)

BREAK

8. Panel: Place-Based Education: A Community Approach
A number of predominantly Hawaiian communities challenge traditional models of education by drawing on a local base of knowledge.  Panelists discuss innovative curricula and how their “places” permeate the ways they address their communities' educational and cultural needs.

Ku Kahakalau (Director, Kanu O Ka 'Aina New Century Public Charter School)
Eric Enos (Executive Director, Ka'ala Farm, Inc.)
Jonathan Kuahiwi Moniz (Program Coordinator and Curator, Nanaikapono Community School Museum)
Moderator: Matt Mattice (Executive Director, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center)

LUNCH / Annual Membership Meeting
Box lunches provided w/ registration

9. What's New?
Presenter: Gloria Chun Hoo (Marketing and PR Manager, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i)

10. Round Table: Addressing Historical Controversies
How do organizations present controversial perspectives?  Panelists discuss the ways their institutions address important but thorny issues about the past.

James O. Horton (Professor of American Studies, George Washington University and University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
Brian Niiya (Resource Center Director, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i)
Sanna Deutsch (Registrar, Honolulu Academy of Arts)
Stuart Ching (Curator, 'Iolani Palace)
DeSoto Brown (Collections Manager of Archives, Bishop Museum)
Moderator: Inger Tully (Curator of Education, The Contemporary Museum)

BREAK

11. Panel: Remembering Pearl Harbor: Exploring Multiple Perspectives Through NEH Teacher Workshops
For the past three years, the East-West Center in collaboration with the USS Arizona Memorial offered National Endowment for the Humanities workshops for teachers focusing on American history and culture. Panelists will describe how the institute inspired teachers, including those from Japan, to move beyond conventional textbook treatments of Pearl Harbor and engage students in exploring multiple perspectives and a complex understanding of war, memory, reconciliation and commemoration.

Daniel Martinez (Historian, USS Arizona Memorial)
Yujin Yaguchi (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo)
Moderator: Betsy Robb (Curator of Education, Honolulu Academy of Arts)

BREAK

12. Nuts & Bolts Session: Take Charge of Your Graphics
Richard Osicka (President, General Graphics Exhibits)

Closing Remarks
Betty Lou Kam (President, HMA)

SATURDAY, May 26, 2007

Instructors:
Kilikina Mahi (Executive Administrator, Ka‘ala Farm, Inc.)
Wei Fang (Independent Consultant)

This workshop provides a fundamental overview of budgeting for nonprofit organizations faced with a double bottom line—sustaining an organization’s mission and financial health.  It will be a “how-to” workshop covering a range of information including reviewing budget categories that reflect an organization’s particular needs, “bottom up” budgeting for individual programs and “top down” budgeting for an entire organization, understanding indirect administrative costs and justifying these hard-to-fund expenses, managing your budget during periods of growth or cost-cutting, and using your budget to communicate your needs to funders.  The workshop consists of four sections:

Introduction to Budgeting for Nonprofits
Budget Basics for Art, Culture and Museum Organizations
Your Budget as a Tool
Individual Breakout Session

Optional:  Workshop attendees should bring laptops with fully charged batteries, a copy of your organization’s annual budget, other relevant financial info., program and business plans to work on during the breakout session. 

Workshop instructors:  Kilikina Mahi is Executive Administrator for Ka‘ala Farm, Inc., a nonprofit Cultural Learning Center and educational program provider.  Ms. Mahi received her MBA from the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.  Her work experience ranges from private sector investment management to nonprofit finance and administration.  Wei Fang brings 10 years of experience working in art museums and arts organizations.  She managed education and artist residency programs at the Harvard University Art Museums and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  From 2002-2005, she was Curator of Education at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu. She recently developed business projects for Artforum International magazine and Phillips de Pury auction house.  Wei received an MA in Education from Harvard University and will complete her MBA at Columbia University in May 2007.

Fee: $30 General Public, $20 HMA Members

Limited Enrollment

“Working with NAGPRA”
Post-Conference Session
May 26, 2007, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Paki Conference Room II, Bishop Museum

Presenter: C. Timothy McKeown (Senior Program Coordinator, National NAGPRA Program, National Park Service)

This session will deal with issues pertaining to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. It will be conducted by Dr. C. Timothy McKeown, senior program coordinator with the National NAGPRA Program, National Park Service, and the designated federal official (DFO) to the NAGPRA Review Committee. Dr. McKeown drafted the NAGPRA regulations and is responsible for the regulations on reserved sections involving the future applicability of NAGPRA and disposition of culturally unidentified human remains. He has given training on NAGPRA for more than 15 years to tribes, museums, and federal agencies throughout the country and in international forums. He has published extensively on NAGPRA, burials, and repatriation and the applicability of preservation law to Native American culture.

Fee: Free
(Must register to attend. Please indicate on registration sheet that you want to sign up for the “Working with NAGPRA” session by placing a √ (check) or other mark in the boxed window of the conference registration form.)