[PADG:1116] Workshop- Telling the Story: Promoting Cultural Collections

["Hortz Stanton, Laura" <Lhortzstanton@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Program and registration information for the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts' upcoming workshop, Telling the Story: Promoting Cultural Collections, is now available on our website at <http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php>, and below. We would appreciate your sharing this information with your colleagues and memberships. Thank you.


The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) presents:

Telling the Story: Promoting Cultural Collections

Philadelphia, PA - September 25, 2006

Cosponsored by: 
Pennsylvania Hospital Historic Collections

Held at: 
Pennsylvania Hospital Zubrow Auditorium


About the Workshop

This workshop will focus on strategies for museum, archives, and library professionals to effectively use marketing and public relations to tell the stories of their collections throughout the year, and not just during special exhibitions. It will present the basic components of a public relations program, examine strategies that have worked for other institutions, and tackle some challenging situations drawn from the audience.  In addition, a panel of museum professionals will be on hand to share their personal success stories.


LOCATION & DATE

Monday, September 25, 2006
Held at Pennsylvania Hospital, Zubrow Auditorium
800 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA


TIME

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Registration and Coffee  
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM	Workshop


Speaker Information

Keltie Hawkins, Marketing and Communications Manager at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, has served as a key player in creating a newsletter for the Center, redesigning the Center's website, garnering increased press coverage, and producing a video in collaboration with WHYY, Philadelphia's local public television station, on the conservation treatment of John James Audubon's Birds of America.  Before coming to the Center, she worked as a Marketing Assistant and as a Sales and Exhibits Coordinator at the Brookings Institution, as Marketing Associate at Counterpoint Press (Washington, DC), and as an Editor for Running Press in Philadelphia.

Lee Price, Director of Development at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, has worked as a fundraising and marketing consultant for many regional and national cultural institutions.  Over the past 18 years, he has helped to raise over $30 million in federal, state, and private funding for nonprofit organizations in the Philadelphia area.  Before entering the nonprofit field in the late 1980's, he served for four years as publisher and editor of a tourist newspaper for the Bucks County region.
 

Brochure & Registration 

Workshop brochure and registration form can be accessed at: 
<http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php> (download may take a few moments)

Please Note:
 If you have special needs, please contact CCAHA three weeks prior to the workshop date so that accommodations can be made.


Funding

This workshop is partially subsidized through funding from the William Penn Foundation, the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, the Independence Foundation, and The Claneil Foundation. 


For information about CCAHA, its programs and services, please visit our website at www.ccaha.org or contact CCAHA's Preservation Services Office at 215.545.0613 or ccaha@xxxxxxxxxx

Laura Hortz Stanton
Preservation Services Officer
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 S. 23rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-545-0613
Fax:     215-735-9313
Email:  lhortzstanton@xxxxxxxxx