Thursday, April 8, 2021: Collections & Community Now

About the Presenters
(listed in presentation order according to the program)

The Future of Museums Post-Covid
Tyree Boyd-Pates is a Los Angeles-based museum curator, historian, and public speaker whose museum work centers the African American experience in the American West. Recently, Tyree joined the Autry Museum of the American West as the Associate Curator of Western History. At the Autry, he is spearheading American history exhibitions and historical initiatives that engage communities across the region for archival purposes, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matters protests occurring across the American West. Boyd-Pates museum work has received mention in The New York Times, The LA Times, Vogue, NPR, Hollywood Reporter, and recently was selected by multi-Grammy award-winning producer and composer Pharrell Williams to be included in his guest-curated TIME Magazine issue “The New American Revolution” to discuss his views on American history. Currently, Boyd-Pates a 2021 Civic Media Fellow with the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC and a 2021 Innovation Fellow with the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy.

Equitable Acquisitions: A New Paradigm for Collecting With Community
Presenters: Valerie Huaco, Deputy Director & Chief Content Officer, Oakland Museum of California; Peggy Monahan, Director of Content Development, Oakland Museum of California; Erendina Delgadillo, Curator of History, Oakland Museum of California; Violetta Wolf, Associate Director of Collections, Oakland Museum of California
Valerie Huaco was a registrar and conservator before leading exhibitions and collections. Peggy Monahan has spent decades leading teams to create innovative exhibitions. Erendina Delgadillo has curated recent projects on Black Power, Chicano history, and intersectional feminism. Violetta Wolf brings an access-focused approach to collections care and research. 

Collecting, Contextualizing, and Exhibiting Inclusion at the Autry Museum
Presenters: Amy Scott, VP of Research and Interpretation, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Visual Arts, The Autry (Moderator); Joe Horse Capture, Vice President, Native Collections and Ahmanson Curator of Native History and Culture, The Autry; Liza Posas, Head of Research Services and Archives, The Autry; Tyree Boyd Pates, Associate Curator of Western History, The Autry
The Autry has long been engaged with collecting from the community, a practice that evolved rapidly with the pandemic, shutdown, and calls for racial justice this summer. In addition to our Collecting Community History Initiative, we are pioneering ways to actively engage Native communities via their collections in our care.

How the Pandemic Helped Heal Our Database
Presenter: Matthew Clouse, Museum Registrar, University of California, Riverside-California Museum of Photography
Matthew Clouse, MA has over 15 years of museum experience, beginning in museum education before transitioning to collections management. Currently, he is the Museum Registrar at the University of California Riverside, California Museum of Photography/UCR ARTS.

Moving Collections During a Global Pandemic
Presenter: Christopher Smith, Registrar, Center for Sacramento History
Participants include Christopher Smith, Registrar at the Center for Sacramento History

2020, The Year We Gave Our Collection to Guerrilla Historians
Presenter: Nicole Meldahl, Executive Director, Western Neighborhoods Project
Nicole Meldahl is Executive Director of Western Neighborhoods Project and a member of the CAM Program Committee. Overseen by Meldahl, this initiative earned WNP a write up in the San Francisco Chronicle, a feature on KTVU news, and a retweet by the National Council on Public History.