3. VCAM TORONTO

4. 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.

5. Region 2 California, 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

6. EXHIBITS

7. SF FINE ARTS MUSEUMS

8. MONTREAL EXHIBIT

9. VCAM HISTORY EXHIBIT

10. 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

11. 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)

12. VCAM SAN FRANCISCO 1959

13. Past Conference Locations 1952 Toronto1979 Atlanta 1956St. Louis1982 Ottawa 1959San Francisco1985 Phoenix 1962Boston1988 Richmond 1964Chicago1991 Indianapolis 1967Montreal1994 New Orleans 1970Los Angeles1997 Philadelphia 1974Baltimore2000 Detroit 1976Minneapolis2003 Toronto

14. Friday Evening Reception

15. 50 th ANNIVERSARY

16. Saturday The 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

17. Art Gallery of Ontario Tour

19. Lunch at AGO

20. 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

21. Thomson Gallery Saturday Evening

22. Arcadian Court Hudson’s Bay Company

23. Plenary Session, Sunday Living with Perpetual Change Art Gallery of Ontario Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Pasadena Art Alliance

24. Concurrent Workshops Sunday. New Communications Strategies: The Virtual Volunteer.Where is Today’s Volunteer. Life During Construction. Need$$ - Need Ideas?

25. Need $$ - Need Ideas Boise Wine Festival & The Power Plant

26. Royal Ontario Museum Luncheon in Canada Court Museum Construction from Vision to Reality

27. New ROM

28. ROM Tour

29. Workshop, Monday Digging in – Making Change Work for You (All workshops very interactive!)

30. Cabbage Town Tour

31. Cabbage Town Flag