M10 Summit 2026
Joy! Reimagining Work, Connection and Care
Joy! Reimagining Work, Connection, and Care.
Come celebrate the creative community of Museums10 and connect with fellow museum professionals at the M10 Summit 2026!
Enjoy breakout groups, lunch, and an art-making activity.
Joy As Infrastructure, keynote by Andrea “Philly” Walls, Multidisciplinary Artist, Creator & Curator, Museum of Black Joy, and Quilting the Commons: A Collective Practice, Workshop.
Monday, June 1, 2026, 11am - 4pm, Willits-Hallowell Conference Center, Mount Holyoke College.
M10 Summit Schedule
11:00 am Welcome & M10 Year in Review
Siddhartha Shah, John Wieland 1958 Director of the Mead Art Museum; Tricia Y. Paik, Florence Finch Abbott Director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; Terre Parker, Associate Project Director, M10 Workforce Development, Five Colleges, Incorporated.
11:25 - 12:10 pm Keynote: Joy As Infrastructure, Andrea “Philly” Walls
A reframing of joy not as a retreat from life and work, but as a practice that makes life and work sustainable, bringing a sense of wonder to the process. Through storytelling, visual examples, and participatory reflection, the session connects a joyful framework to the shared challenges and possibilities facing cultural workers and institutions.
12:10 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1 - 2 pm Workshop: Quilting the Commons: A Collective Practice, Andrea “Philly” Walls
This hands-on paper quiltmaking workshop invites participants to engage with pre-curated images drawn from Museums10 member collections. In a collaborative effort, we will transform institutional materials into a shared act of art and meaning-making. Using printed images, textures, and paper collage techniques, we will create a patchwork quilt that reflects joy, resilience, collective work and responsibility within sustainable futures. Rooted in the legacy of traditional quiltmaking as both art form and communal language, this workshop emphasizes process over perfection and participation over product.
2 - 2:15 pm Break
2:15 - 3:45 pm Breakout Discussions
Finances, Marketing, Visitor Experience, Curation, Collections, Development, Education, and more!
3:45 - 4:00 pm Closing
4:00-5:30 pm Post-Summit Gathering
Andrea “Philly” Walls
"I imagine & ritualize an opulent Black future rooted in joy". Multidisciplinary artist Andrea “Philly” Walls is the curator and creator of the Museum of Black Joy. Her writing, scholarship, and visual art have been supported by The Colored Girls Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Drexel Writers Room, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.
For questions, please contact fc-museums10@fivecolleges.edu.