WHAT'S NEW AT LORD: NEW PROJECTS, NEW IDEAS
The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) 48th Annual Conference takes place in Philadelphia, PA, from August 19–21, 2026, where Lord Cultural Resources team members Joy Bailey-Bryant, Valerie Guevara, and Tiffany Lyons will attend and speak. Read more about our sessions below.
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Collaboration is at the heart of The Collection Sharing Project, an initiative anchored by the iSchool Institute at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information, in strategic partnership with Gail Lord, Cultural Entrepreneur in Residence at the iSchool. The project explores how new ways of thinking, along with information science, including AI, can unlock the vast potential of museum collections in storage—transforming hidden collections into shared cultural resources while supporting equitable access, collaborative stewardship, and new models of knowledge exchange.
Read about this and other news in our July issue of Cultural News.
Lord Cultural Resources is pleased to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Clara Luper Civil Rights Center, marking a major milestone in the creation of a new cultural destination dedicated to preserving and sharing Oklahoma's civil rights history. President and Managing Partner Joy Bailey-Bryant was in attendance.
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