Shogren Consulting | Heritage, Museum & Cultural Planning

Welcome to Shogren Consulting! We are a forward thinking organizational consultancy that serves all of the nonprofit/ngo sector with a specialization in cultural and planning, cultural resource management, application of new technologies and a growing practice in sustainability. New content is always developing and being added to this site, so please check back ofter. And take a moment to tell us about yourself and why you came by registering with us for future updates! Thanks again, Sam Shogren & Associates

Motive Space Symposium

We are providing a variety of administrative and support services to the Symposium including support and development of the Symposium’s open source solutions based website, a discussion forum, creation of a PayPal system for event registration, conference planning advice, and consultation on Nonprofit start-ups.

Shogren Consulting’s support of the Symposium represents the first of our new initiatives to build sustainable communities and to implement the principals of LEAD International.

The September dialogue will provide a forum for industry related professionals and citizens to gather + contribute toward a community model of Cooperative Development. For the purposes of the dialogue, the proposed definition of cooperative development is the initiation of multi-family infill projects through the collaborative efforts of citizens and designers. It proposes a renegotiated partnership between enterprising architects and design-savvy citizens, in order to simultaneously diminish the risk of new construction in a shaky market economy, and maximize the creative excitement of design as a tool for personal, civic, and social empowerment.

Tags: collaborative efforts, community model, conference planning, cooperative development, LEAD International, Motive Space Symposium, social empowerment, sustainable communities, WordPress

The Phillip Foster Farm and Jacknife-Zion-Horseheaven Historical Society of Eagle Creek, Oregon

We are beginning work with the Historical Society in August to help them develop a Long-Range Preservation Plan for their collections and buildings. We will also be offering workshops for staff and volunteers on collections care, housekeeping and implementing an environmental monitoring program for the buildings to develop baseline data for future projects.

Tags: collections care, environmental monitoring, Phillip Foster Farm, preservation planning, self studies, volunteer education

Good Morning - Later today Sam will be presenting a draft of his paper for the Transforming Museums conference in Seattle before the students in the Arts Administration and Museum Studies Programs at the University of Oregon.

The paper’s draft titled: Museums, Starbucks, and the Third Place Way: the Museums Role in Civil Society proposes a new role for museums in our communities by   proposing that our real role is in fostering civil discourse concerning contemporary   topics and utilizing the museum’s collections to bring insights into the public debate.

Sam also argues that contemporary models of museum development and continued growth are not sustainable. The paper concludes with a new vision for museum in the 2st century as Third Places built upon a model of sustainability that envisions curtailed construction by the museum of new space (perhaps we have museum bloat?) that is replaced by community partnerships to build new museum spaces in new civic and commercial buildings taking the museum to the public.

Check back as a drafts of this exciting paper will be made available under the RESOURCES tab on this site!

Tags: arts & econmic development, arts managment, arts social impact, conferences, presentations, Revisioning Museums, Sustainability, third place way, third places, transforming museums, university of oregon, university of washington

Our Principal, Sam Shogren, was appointed to Washington County’s Arts, Heritage and Humanities Coalition by the Washington County Board of Supervisors in January of 2007. This month Sam assumed a leadership position within the Coalition by volunteering to steer the Coalition’s efforts at rewriting the Washington County’s Cultural Plan. The Coalition was formed at the County level in response to the formation of the Oregon Cultural Trust by the state legislature in 2001. Today the Coalition re-grants funds given the County by the Oregon Cultural Trust. And in accordance with the initial legislation of the Cultural Trust each county and tribe in Oregon must revisit and revise their cultural plan every 5 years. To contribute to the revision of the County plan, please contact Sam directly or through the County Cultural Coalition.

For more information please visit:

The Washington County Cultural Coalition Website at:
http://www.westsideculturalalliance.org/wccc/index.htm or,
the Oregon Cultural Trusts Website at:
http://www.culturaltrust.org/home/index.php

Tags: arts, arts managment, grants, heritage, humanities, legislation, oregon cultural trust, Washington County, WCAHHC