Hello from 'Arctic' Atlanta (everything has been shut down all week),
 
For upcoming New Harmonies tour - I attended a big regional tourism conference. The people that attended were mostly city managers, downtown development folks, travel industry business people, etc. It was held in GA but people from other southern states were there as well. We rented an exhibitor booth and did a display on New Harmonies.  The point is we reached a lot of different individuals (outside the humanities realm). That is one of the reasons that we asked for communities (not organizations) to apply for the exhibit. We required them to work in partnership with organizations in their town and mention that on the application. We interested not just  humanities groups by doing this, but we were able to familiarize tourism groups/businesses with the humanities. 
 
Another thing we did was a short presentation at an historic preservation conference. The GHC partnered to present the conference and there were people in attendance from all all over the state (humanities groups, art groups and city development people). For our presentation I invited one of the Key Ingredients site directors to talk about her community's experience for a few minutes. They were our most successful site and she connected very well with the audience. I was amazed at how many questions were asked about MOMS and the exhibit specifics following our presentation.  
 
We also presented at the state museum association conference but I think  you are just preaching to the choir there (in Georgia they all knew about it already from K.I.). That is why we thought of different ways of reaching more people too.
 
Sorry I rambled - hope this gives you some ideas.
 
Best regards,
Arden
 
Ms. Arden Williams
Senior Program Officer
State Coordinator -
Museum on Main Street Exhibits
Georgia Humanities Council
50 Hurt Plaza, Ste. 595
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404-523-6220 ext. 17
Fax: 404-523-5702
http://www.georgiahumanities.org/
 
GHC and the Smithsonian
Presents:
New Harmonies:
Celebrating American 
Roots Music-
a traveling exhibition
Arriving in GA April 14, 2012
Exhibit locations are on the GHC website
 
Grants for 2011: 
Community Program Grants up to $2,000
Deadlines are 2/1, 5/1 and 9/1
Check the GHC website for guidelines
 
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From: Museum on Main Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jean Wortman
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:15 PM
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Subject: recruiting host sites

Hi and Happy New Year!

 

I am wondering if any of you have some good tips and creative ideas for recruiting MoMs host sites. We will be bringing Journey Stories to Maryland in 2012. For past MoMs tours we’ve done emails and sent snail mail  to museums, libraries, cultural orgs on our database and used our museum association’s mailing list and I have spoken at the annual regional museum conference, we’ve never had an overwhelming response to a request for applications.

 

Does anyone have the secret to successful recruiting?  Catchy appeals or promotions?  Has anyone directly recruited specific host sites and, if so, has this been successful?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Jean

 

Jean Wortman

Program Officer

Coordinator Maryland Center for the Book

Maryland Humanities Council

108 W. Centre Street

Baltimore, MD 21201-4565

(D) 410-685-4187

(0) 410-685-0095

(F)  410-685-0795

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Website: htpp://www.mdhc.org

 

 

MHC wants to hear from you! Do you have a transportation story about Baltimore City? Submit your story idea to Beth Barbush at [log in to unmask] or call 410-685-3715, and plan to attend our free event “Moving Stories: Getting Around Baltimore” at the Walters Art Museum February 10, 2011 at 6 p.m. See www.mdhc.org/programs/practicing-democracy/moving-stories-getting-around-baltimore/ for more information.