[Bcma-l] Dynamic Art Museums in Small Cities

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

Dynamic Art Museums in Small Cities

 

The Board of Trustees of the Kamloops Art Gallery, www.kag.bc.ca  a

not-for-profit art museum located in the interior of British Columbia in

western Canada, met recently to consider its future and to address our

considerable responsibilities to various communities. 

 

The Board hopes to develop a new paradigm, an ideal model that

emphasizes the compatibility of popular success, scholarship and

museological responsibilities that can be used to benchmark our future

outcomes and achievements.  It also intends to look at the vital and

critical role of the "small city gallery" within the global environment.

 

To these ends, our Trustees would like to know about art galleries in

similar small communities with a population between 50,000 and 150,000.

It is inviting museum professionals and scholars to define what

constitutes a successful small city art museum.  How, for example, are

historical/traditional and contemporary art programming integrated? What

are the inherent responsibilities that come with being recognized as a

rigorous institution committed to research and scholarship?  What is the

potential of small art museums as learning hubs, especially given the

opportunities available through the use of new technologies? And lastly,

the Board is trying to determine how art museums make a difference in

their own immediate and diverse communities and how success is defined

in these terms.

 

The first part of this multi-faceted project is to compile a list of

small-city art galleries world-wide that are recognized as leaders in

their field. The next step is to refine this list and prepare case

studies of 20 to 25 of these institutions for inclusion in a publication

about the challenges and possibilities facing the small city gallery.  

 

We would appreciate receiving your opinion on the most outstanding

galleries based on the objectives of the study outlined in this email.

Please forward them to jlmb@kag.bc.ca

 

We would also appreciate if you would take the time to forward this

inquiry to your email list of colleagues in order to expand the search

for outstanding art galleries in small cities. Please include your full

name, title and work affiliation for reference and follow-up.

 

Thank you for your time.

 

Jann LM Bailey

Executive Director, Kamloops Art Gallery

101-465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada V2C 2A9

t 250 3772412 / f 250 828 0662 / www.kag.bc.ca

 

 

 


 

**Jann LM Bailey**  executive director

**Kamloops**** Art Gallery**

101-465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada V2C 2A9

t 250 3772412 / f 250 828 0662 / www.kag.bc.ca <http://www.kag.bc.ca>

 

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