Committees, Affinities and SPCs

Affinity Committees are groups with a common professional affinity that represent specific disciplines within the museum profession. They provide a network for people with common interests and similar professional positions. Standing Professional Committees (SPCs) are affinity groups that meet specific requirements to have a vote on the MPMA board.

Affinity Committees and SPCs provide MPMA members a chance to gather in a small group with like-minded professionals who do the same thing. For example, those who belong to MPMA NAME (National Association of Museum Exhibition) meet exhibits designers and techies from ten different states and find out about their projects, where they buy exhibit-related items, and what their opinion is on the latest exhibit issues. MPMA’s groups operate informally and formally, provide a means by which colleagues can network and discuss issues AND are open to all MPMA members. Affinity groups typically gather annually at the MPMA Annual Conference and are in contact with each other throughout the year.

Feel free to attend these groups’ meetings at the next MPMA conference. You will find that they are your ticket to getting to know others around the region who do what you do. For more information, call or email the contact people listed below to find out more about the group (or groups) that interests you.

MPMA SPCs and Affiliate Committees offer opportunities to network with colleagues from similar professional backgrounds. SPCs are Standing Professional Committees which have a vote on the MPMA board.

Advocacy (Board Committee)

Rick Young, Museum Director

Fort Caspar Museum & Historic Site

4001 Fort Caspar Rd. / Casper, WY 82604

307/235-8462 - fax 307/235-8464

ryoung@cityofcasperwy.com

AAMG (Association of Academic Museums & Galleries Association)   Affinity Committee

Vacant

Board Development (Board Committee)

Jay S. Smith, Executive Consultant

Fort Stanton

PO Box 24 / Fort Stanton, NM 88323-0024

575-937-2121 / jssnm05@gmail.com

COMPT (Affinity Committee)

Committee on Museum Professional Training  click here for more information

Nicky Ladkin, Assistant Director

Museum of Texas Tech University

PO Box 43191 / Lubbock, TX 79409

806-742-2470 / Fax 806-742-1136

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Hyojung Cho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Center of Advanced Studies for Museum Science and Heritage Management
Museum of Texas Tech University
3301 4th St. Box 43191
Lubbock, TX 79409

hyojcho@gmail.com

CurCom (Affinity Committee) - Curator’s Committee

Elisa Phelps
Director of Collections/Library Division
Colorado Historical Society
1300 Broadway / Denver, CO 80203
T: 303.866.3688
elisa.phelps@chs.state.co.us / coloradohistory.org

David Kennedy, Curator

Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center

507 South 4th Street / Enid , OK 73701

580- 237-1907 ext 225 / Fax 580- 234-8703

dkennedy@okhistory.org

EdCom (SPC)

Erin B. Rose, Curator of Education

Fort Caspar Museum / 4001 Fort Caspar Road

Casper, WY  82604

   307-235-8462 / Fax 307-235-8464

erose@cityofcasperwy.com

     www.fortcasparwyoming.com

Emerging Museum Professionals (Affinity Committee)

For Students and people new to the field.

Heidi Vaughn, Director
Laboratory of History Museum

Dept. of History & Geography / University of Central Oklahoma
100 N University Dr / Edmond, OK 73034
405-974-5789     hvaughn@uco.edu

Communications and Marketing (Board Committee)

Membership (Board Committee)

Jenny Yearous, Curator of Collections Management
State Historical Society of North Dakota
612 E. Boulevard Ave.
Bismarck, ND 58505
T: 701.328.2666
F: 701.328.3710
jyearous@state.nd.us

NAME (Affinity Committee)

National Association for Museum Exhibition

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David G. Mead, Exhibits Coordinator
Sweetwater County Historical Museum
3 East Flaming Gorge Way
Green River, Wyoming 82935
(307) 872-6436
dv_mead@yahoo.com

PURCHASING CO-OP

Jami Frazier Tracy, Curator of Collections,

Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

204 S. Main, Wichita KS 67202

316-265-9314 / 316-265-9319 fax

jtracy@wichitahistory.org

RC-MPMA (SPC)

Registrars and Collection Managers

Sofía Galarza Liu, Collection Manager

Spencer Museum of Art / The University of Kansas

1301 Mississippi Street / Lawrence, KS 66045

785-864-0146

reina@ku.edu / www.spencerart.ku.edu

SMAC(Affinity Committee)

Small Museum Administrators Committee

Katie Herrick, Director

Stanton County Museum

P.O. Box 806 / Johnson, KS 67855

620-492-1526 scmuse@pld.com

Glo Cunningham, Executive Director

Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum

P. O. Box 2480 / 331 Elk Ave.

Crested Butte, CO 81224

970 349-5729 wk 970 3491880 fax 9703491885

Technology (Board Committee)

Volunteer Coordinators Committee (Affinity Committee)

Beth Campbell
Visitor Services Coordinator
State Historical Society of North Dakota
612 E. Boulevard Ave.
Bismarck, ND 58505
T: 701.328.2674
F: 701.328.3710
bcampbell@state.nd.us