Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Cooperstown Graduate Program announces its third annual Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICE) May 6-9, 2012. Twenty (20) openings are available for mid-career museum professionals at the spring 2012 entrepreneurial training program in Cooperstown, N.Y. 

ICE’s enrichment program teaches museum, preservation, historic site and other arts and culture professionals the entrepreneurial skills designed to strengthen institutions and build on sustainability while engaging community.

 

Here's what fellows from the 2011 institute said about their ICE experience:

• ICE gave me "a new framework for problem solving, or rather taking challenges and transforming them into opportunities." - Laura Thayer
• "Create the buzz folks - this program rocks!" - Elizabeth Shapiro
• "Using the interaction and experiences I had at ICE has really allowed me to envision and plan for a future with a clarity that I did not have before." - Matthew Mittelstadt

ICE tuition is $500 and includes most meals and your stay at the historic Otesaga Resort Hotel ( http://www.otesaga.com/ ) on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown. Some scholarships are available.

 

Join ICE on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-Cultural-Entrepreneurship-for-Museum-Leaders/190560077627609

 

Get more information on the ICE website: http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/ice/index.html

 

E-mail Elizabeth Furlow at ICE: furlowew@oneonta.edu

Outstanding Small Museums - Where Are You?

SMA has received a request from a student at Cooperstown Graduate Program wanting to know about outstanding small museums, who are fully engaged with their communities. In particular, she is seeking to identify volunteer run organizations without staff and/or museums with 1 - 3 professional staff members. Naturally, we want to know about them too! Please share your recommendations on our wall (either blog or Facebook), and we will pass them along to her. We need the submissions by next week, if possible.