• Celebrating six successful years and enjoying the seventh!

• Current Projects and Events (As of August 2010)

• Desert Space Foundation, Las Vegas, NV – Review of Bylaws and Documents/Advice on Strategic Planning/General consultation
• Harvard University Extension School - Thesis director (2)
• Museum of South Texas History, Edinburg, TX - Survey, Assessment and Planning Services (in association with Quintanilla Schmidt Consulting)
• UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum - General consultation
• Art will deliver a keynote address, "Succession Planning as Board Policy: A Strategy for (Sm)all Museums," to the luncheon meeting of the Small Museums Administrators Committee during the Mountain-Plains Museums Association Meeting in Rapid City, SD, September 13-16.
• Art will present in the panel session "Politics and How it Impacts Museums", with former South Dakota Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern and AAM President/CEO Ford Bell during the MPMA meetings.
• Art will moderate a panel discussion on "Locals vs. Tourists: Tourism and the Museum," and will present on the panel "Difficult Departures: Leaving an Executive Leadership Position" during the Western Museums Association conference October 18-20 in Portland, OR.
• Art is working on an essay for the Informal Learning Review.

• Recent News and Events
• Art contributed Case Study commentary to an article titled Looking at the Big Picture, in Board Member Vol. 19(3), May/June 2010, pp. 16-19, @boardsource.org.
• Art attended the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums, Museums Without Borders, from May 23-26 in Los Angeles.
• As Chairman, Art announced the launch of the new website for the Desert Wetlands Conservancy on May 12th. www.desertwetlands.org
• Art led an AAM Accreditation Visiting Committee to a Midwestern museum seeking subsequent Accreditation in mid-April.
• WOLF Consulting was a major sponsor of the AAM’s second annual Museum Advocacy Days on March 22-23 in Washington, DC, and Art attended as the Chair of the MPMA Advocacy Committee.
• Art presented in a session entitled Take This Job and Love It, at the Texas Association of Museums conference in College Station on March 16th.
• Art facilitated an action workshop, Sustaining Your Programs By Aligning Your Mission with Partners, during the Our Places Tell Stories conference on February 25th at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve.