Nancy Proctor Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

225 Holliday Street, Baltimore, Md 21202

As founding Executive Director, with Board support I led the completion of the $5.5 million USD capital campaign to restore the historic Peale building – the first purpose-built museum in the U.S. – and relaunch it as Baltimore's Community Museum and a laboratory for cultural innovation. I have also grown The Peale's revenue streams and operating income from $0 in 2017 to over $1 million per year with a staff of 10 plus fellows and apprentices in the "Accomplished Arts Apprentices" workforce development program.The Peale is both a teaching museum and a place where anyone can contribute their story to the city’s cultural and historical narrative. Together with creators and storytellers of all kinds, we’re actively redefining the role of museums in society and building the largest archive of Baltimore stories in the world. With Baltimore’s communities, we co-create ground-breaking exhibitions, performances, and programs, and are pioneering new models for accessibility, relevance, and sustainability in the cultural sector.A core activity at the Peale is rethinking systems and structures that perpetuate inequity and injustice in society and our organization. As a result, the Peale adopted a shared leadership model in September 2020, and Nancy assumed the title of Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for strategic planning, partnerships, and developing new business development opportunities to ensure the financial security of the organization as well as fund its initiatives.

Online

Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Museum Learning Hub began as a nationwide initiative organized by the six U.S. regional museum associations and dedicated to providing free, self-paced training resources for small museums. The inaugural series of online trainings and resource toolkits focused on digital media and technology topics and was made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant for Museums award MG-248568-OMS-20. Initially created as part of the Digital Empowerment – Technology and Digital Media Training for Small Museums Project, training programs and resources on the Hub support small museums seeking to overcome barriers to audience engagement and educational program delivery in a post-pandemic environment. The resources available on the Museum Learning Hub address a range of topics, from diversity and inclusion to best practices to program and exhibition planning. Nancy served as the Museum Learning Hub's independent consultant and skilled museum technologist for its inaugural series of online trainings. Nancy’s role was to contribute to content and resource development, identify skilled technologists to provide instruction for technical trainings, and recruit emerging technologists to the project.

Mw21 Will Be In Washington, Dc And Online April 5-9, 2021.

Museums and the Web (MW) produces the largest international conferences dedicated to innovation in the cultural sector and the annual GLAMi awards, recognizing the most groundbreaking projects from galleries, libraries, archives and museums each year. Thousands of papers from the conference's proceedings have been made freely available online since MW's founding in 1997, and its community includes cultural professionals from around the world.With Co-chair Rich Cherry, Nancy developed the conference's annual program, edited the annual proceedings, and provided overall management and strategic direction for the conference as part of its leadership team. She led MW's pivot to online conferences when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Nancy also directed the MuseWeb Foundation, MW's non-profit initiative, whose mission was to transform the business of culture by catalyzing, supporting and coordinating projects that rapidly test and iterate methods for increasing the accessibility, inclusivity, and sustainability of the cultural sector and creators of culture.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

The Baltimore Museum of Art is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 95,000 objects—including the largest public holding of works by Henri Matisse. Since 2006, the BMA has provided free general admission so that everyone can enjoy the power of art. Nancy joined the BMA to establish its first Digital division in March 2014. She developed the museum's first digital strategy and participated in a refresh of the Museum's overall strategy with digital tactics and priorities interwoven throughout. She hired the BMA's first digital team, oversaw a complete renovation of the Museum's digital infrastructure and website, and took on leadership of the Marketing, Communications and Creative team in June 2014. In December 2014, the Visitor Services group also joined the expanded and restructured Digital Experience and Communications division under Nancy's direction.

Responsible for the development, execution, and continuous evaluation and refinement of mobile applications and websites, and the development a cohesive and rational pan-Institutional approach to mobile development across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo.

At the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Nancy managed a team of four FTEs + four part-time (work-study students, interns & volunteers) to develop all public-facing digital media and technology for the American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery of American craft and decorative arts (websites and blog; mobile applications, podcasts, audio tours; in-gallery kiosks and digital signage; publication on third party and social media platforms). She developed a strategic digital plan and budget in accordance with Museum and Institutional goals and priorities, and undertook research, communications and marketing in concert with the Museum's Public Affairs Department. With her team Nancy provided support for the Curatorial and Exhibitions Departments on the acquisition, installation and care of digital artworks, as well as support for the Development department on fund raising through digital channels.

As “face of the company,” Nancy was responsible for public relations with Antenna's museum (B2B) client base in addition to continuing to manage new product deployments globally. She oversaw company marketing, market research, product development and evaluation during a period of organization restructuring in 2007.

Antenna Audio (now Antenna International) is a leading provider of audio tour services around the world. As part of the company’s senior leadership team, Nancy developed business strategy and forecasting for new products. She established and enlarged a department responsible for development of multimedia tours, sign language guides, phone-based tours, podcasts, vodcasts, downloadable audio tours, virtual tours, and mobile content management software, and also developed mobile and broadcast cultural products for the Travel Channel (then part of Discovery Communications). She also led new product sales, including key new product contracts with Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Institution, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha. During her tenure, the company's new products won 11 international awards for technical content and excellence, including a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for development of Tate Modern's first multimedia tour (2003).

Concurrently with leading new product development for Antenna Audio globally, Nancy managed the company's French Sales Team and office of 15 during the transition to a new MD for French territory and led the process for key new product sales in France in 2006. Under Nancy's leadership new and renewed contracts in the French region included Centre Pompidou, Château de Versailles, and the Louvre.

The founders of digital publishing consultancy, Pink ink., developed its activities into TheGalleryChannel Ltd. in 1998 to focus on digital services in the cultural sector. TheGalleryChannel.com offered one of the largest searchable databases of museum, gallery, artist and exhibition listings on the Internet. It was acquired by Antenna Audio in 2002 and shut down in 2007.o Developed overall business concept; recruited seed funding and investment in the company.o Manager for team producing TheGalleryChannel.com and syndicated listings content online.o Creative direction for New Art online gallery and CD-ROM, one of the UK's first digital contemporary art exhibition spaces.

Phd, Art History

Dissertation topic: 19th century American women sculptors in Rome in the Neoclassical period.

Ma With Distinction, Feminism In The Visual Arts

Dissertation topic: Feminist Curation of Contemporary Art: The Absent Bodies/Present Lives Exhibition.

Ba With Distinction, Classics & Art History

Activities and Societies: St Anthony Hall (Delta Psi): President 1990-1991 Phi Beta Kappa 1988Dissertation topic: Mary Kelly’s Interim.