Summer 2022
Muse Magazine
In this issue you will find a celebration of this year's amazing CMA Awards winners, updates and insights on the CMA Reconciliation program alongside the latest in Spotlight-worthy sector developments.
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A Message from the President of the Board
Just over a year ago the Canadian Museums Association asked Massimo Bergamini to take on the role of acting Executive Director after the departure of our former ED to assist in establishing our new board and oversee daily operations before we made any significant decisions about leadership. ...
A Message from the Executive Director
This is my last column for Muse. Before sitting down to write it, I had been thinking it would be an opportunity to reflect on my tenure as CMA’s (interim) chief executive officer and maybe dispense some advice to my successor and to anyone else interested in reading it. ...
In the Spotlight
Read about some of the latest developments in the museum sector.
Reconciliation Update
"Reconciliation is a gift to museums." These words, spoken by Yukon First Nation Heritage Advisor Nyla Klugie-Migwans at the CMA Yukon Heritage roundtable in April 2022, resonate through the work of the CMA’s Reconciliation Program, ...
Locating Relationality and Indigenous Cultural Memory in Museums
CMA Reconciliation Program Manager Stephanie Danyluk spoke with Jessie Loyer on how relationality intersects with collections management and the role of museums in confronting and disrupting their colonial legacy. ...
Renaming Artworks — How Changing Titles Helps Change Institutions
In 2022, the conversation on dealing with problematic titles and names is moving to centre stage in different scales across the country. Those sceptical of the practice of renaming perhaps do not understand why it is important, and for whom. This is a problem, but it’s a problem with an interesting silver lining. ...
Staff retreat and office warming
Last June 22-23, CMA staff gathered for two days of visioning, planning, reconnecting and learning more about each other and about CMA’s new hybrid workspace and office. CMA president Heather George joined the staff group in the two days of far-reaching discussions about the current state of the organization and of the museum and heritage sector. ...
Young Canada Works — Success Story
The Young Canada Works (YCW) team at the Canadian Museums Association is always delighted to hear that a former (or a current) YCW youth participant has been offered a permanent position with the organization where their YCW position had taken place. Success comes in many forms but an offer of continued employment in the heritage sector is a highly sought-after outcome.
Paraskeva Clark (Self-Portrait)
Part of the exhibition entitled Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection . Winner of the 2022 CMA Award for Outstanding Achievement — Research category. ...