The CMA Welcomes New Fellows
CMA Fellows receiving their appointments at the 2024 CMA National Conference. Bottom row: Tracy Calogheros, President of the CMA Board of Directors. Top row, from left to right: Gail Dexter Lord, Robin Etherington, Wendy Fitch, Viviane Gosselin, Robin Inglis, Chair, CMA Fellows and Wendy Molnar. Photo — Kerry’s Klips Photography. Not pictured: David B. Flemming. Photo — Kerry’s Klips Photography
The CMA warmly welcomes the Board of Directors decision to appoint six new CMA Fellows. The following prominent individuals have made distinctive and exemplary contributions to the advancement of museums, including significant contributions to the work of the CMA.
Robin Etherington holds a Masters in Museum Studies, University of Toronto and a Masters in Language and Professional Writing, University of Waterloo. For over four decades, Robin worked in a myriad of institutions, including UNAM in Mexico, Royal Ontario Museum, Glenbow Museum, Nortel Networks and served as Executive Director, Guelph Museums, Manager, Culture and Heritage, City of Kingston, President and CEO of the RCMP Heritage Centre, Saskatchewan, Executive Director of the Bytown Museum and Interim Executive Director of the Ontario Museum Association.
Wendy Fitch retired as Executive Director of the Museums Association of Saskatchewan (MAS) in 2022. She began her career at MAS in 1986 as Museums Advisor where she assisted museums throughout the province in all areas of their operations and governance. Wendy has served on committees at the national level with CCI/CHIN, CMA and National Trust for Canada. Provincially, Wendy served on the Board of Heritage Saskatchewan including as President and currently on the Board of the Saskatchewan Archaeology Society.
David B. Flemming, FRNSHS. Since 1968, he has been employed in numerous historic sites and museum curatorial, administrative and management positions in Nova Scotia and Ontario. He has written, lectured extensively and given media interviews and commentaries on a wide variety of historical subjects. He has been an active member of numerous heritage organizations and currently volunteers as advocacy committee chair for Heritage Ottawa. He is a Fellow of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Wendy Molnar has been making important contributions to the Canadian museum community as an educator, author and consultant for over four decades. As the Training Coordinator for the Association of Manitoba Museums, her structured programs introduced new generations to the opportunities of museum work. She was a founder of the Learning Coalition, a collaborative of association professionals which set standards and expectations for museum training. As a CMA member, Wendy has been a member of Conference planning committees and has served as an adjudicator for the Young Canada Works program. As a consultant Wendy assisted many museums and heritage organizations across northern and southern Canada in their capacity building, notably in Nunavut. Recently she organized conferences for the Commonwealth Association of Museums in South Africa and New Zealand and administers their Distance Learning Program for emerging professionals.
Viviane Gosselin identifies herself as a settler of French ancestry working on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She has authored several articles on participatory museology and intercultural curation and is co-editor of Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness (UBC Press). She also led and co-curated several exhibitions that have been recognized nationally and internationally. Viviane is currently Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Curator of Contemporary Culture at the Museum of Vancouver.
Gail Dexter Lord —experienced, innovative, effective, creative—is one of the world’s foremost museum planners. She is also an art critic, commentator, public speaker, and co-author of six museum planning manuals and several books, including “Cities, Museums and Soft Power”. Gail co-founded Lord Cultural Resources with her husband Barry Lord in 1981, to deliver specialized planning services to museums, the arts, cultural districts, and the creative economy with the goal of making the world a better place through culture. Based in Toronto and New York, Lord has offices in Mumbai, Dubai, Los Angeles, Madrid, and Beijing. They have completed over 2,500 projects in 57 countries and 450 cities.
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