CALIFORNIA, HERE WE COME 

Open Source: Jewish Museums + Collaborative Culture (March 8-10) is just around the corner; we will see many of you in the Bay Area next month. And it's been a particularly busy month for Conference Co-Chair Anita Kassof, who began a new job as executive director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Check out this wonderful article, which includes her thoughts on ethnic-specific museums, in the Baltimore Jewish Times. One last conference reminder: There's still time to register, but just two more days to benefit from the CAJM rate at the Marriott Marquis. Book online or call (800) 228-9290 by February 12.

NEW TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS

The Traveling Exhibitions pages on the CAJM website can be a great resource for planning. Here we highlight a few new additions. According to the New New Haven Independent, No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration and the Making of an American Family (left) is an "engrossing" and "original" exhibit that traces diverging family members

from Czarist Russia to new lives on three different continents. Contact curator Patricia Klindienst for more information. The popular exhibition Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American from the National Museum of American Jewish History is now available to rent in one of two different formats. Finally,

Hanno Loewy, director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems (Austria), tells us that CAJM members may want to learn more about Jukebox. Jewkbox! A Jewish Century on Shellac & Vinyl (above), a current show that should be available to travel in the not-too-distant future. Sounds like fun.

... AND TRAVELING SPEAKERS 

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EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION & JEWISH MUSEUMS 

Of interest to younger museum professionals and others hoping to expand horizons: The George Washington University is now offering a unique Master's Program in Experiential Education & Jewish Cultural Arts. This interdisciplinary program brings together faculty from Museum

Education and Judaic Studies to train the next generation of professionals

in Jewish arts and culture: the visual arts, dance, film, music and theater. It prepares individuals for leadership positions in Jewish museums and other cultural settings while seeking to generate new forms of Jewish communal engagement. The impressive faculty includes Lotte Lent, Carol Stapp, and Jenna Weissman Joselit (right), who, appropriately, will be part of our Brainstorm: Growing the Profession panel discussion at the upcoming conference.