VCAM TORONTO

VCAM MEMBERSHIP

• 100 Museums: – High Museum of Art, Atlanta– Museum of Fine Arts, Boston– Vancouver Museum of Art– Royal Ontario Museum– Art Gallery of Ontario– The Walters Museum, Baltimore– Dallas Museum of Art– The Art Institute of Chicago– Los Angeles County Museum of Art– The Detroit Institute of Arts– Portland Art Museum– Denver Art Museum etc.

Region 2California, Nevada, Utah, Hawaii, Arizona

• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco• Honolulu Academy of Arts• The Huntington Library• Los Angeles County Museum of Art• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego• Pasadena Art Alliance• Phoenix Art Museum• San Jose Museum of Art• Santa Barbara Museum of Art• Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, Los Angeles• Tucson Museum of Art• Armand Hammer Museum of Art, UCLA

EXHIBITS

SF FINE ARTS MUSEUMS

MONTREAL EXHIBIT

VCAM HISTORY EXHIBIT

HISTORY

• VCAM was founded by Art Gallery of Ontario volunteers in Toronto in 11952 and was incorporated as a non-profit institution in the United States in 1976. It is the only association established solely for art museum volunteers

Purpose of VCAM

• The purpose of VCAM is mutual education by communication among member committees. VCAM is committed to provide a forum for information exchange, mutual education and enhancement of services to its art museum volunteer committee members through international conferences, regional meetings, published comprehensive conference reports, resource files, and the VCAM News publication.

• (Presently fundraising is a large topic of discussion)

VCAM SAN FRANCISCO 1959

Past Conference Locations

• 1952 Toronto 1979 Atlanta• 1956 St. Louis 1982 Ottawa• 1959 San Francisco 1985 Phoenix• 1962 Boston 1988 Richmond• 1964 Chicago 1991 Indianapolis• 1967 Montreal 1994 New Orleans• 1970 Los Angeles 1997 Philadelphia• 1974 Baltimore 2000 Detroit• 1976 Minneapolis 2003 Toronto

Friday Evening Reception

50th ANNIVERSARY

SaturdayThe Art Gallery of Ontario

• Keynote address by David Foot, Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto

• “The Demographics of Volunteering: from Vigilante Consumer Vigilante Volunteer

Art Gallery of Ontario Tour

Lunch at AGO

Concurrent Workshops, Saturday

• Is your Museum Relevant? How do you Know?

• Interpret the Museum through Literature & Drama

• Involving Teens & Twenties, In the Education Theatre

• The Museum as Educator

Thomson GallerySaturday Evening

Arcadian CourtHudson’s Bay Company

Plenary Session, SundayLiving with Perpetual Change

• Art Gallery of Ontario

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Pasadena Art Alliance

Concurrent WorkshopsSunday

. New Communications Strategies:

The Virtual Volunteer

. Where is Today’s Volunteer

. Life During Construction

. Need$$ - Need Ideas?

Need $$ - Need IdeasBoise Wine Festival & The Power Plant

Royal Ontario Museum

• Luncheon in Canada Court

• Museum Construction from Vision to Reality

New ROM

ROM Tour

Workshop, Monday

• Digging in – Making Change Work for You

• (All workshops very interactive!)

Cabbage Town Tour

Cabbage Town Flag