Sharisse Butler - Team

Sharisse Butler
Senior Research Associate
butler@ilinet.org

Areas of Interest

I enjoy working with institutions to help them articulate and assess their goals for programs and exhibitions. My research areas include:

programs and environments designed to foster creativity,
participatory museum experiences and visitor-generated content, and
cross-disciplinary programming and interpretive materials.

Current Projects

Disney's Planet Challenge
Learning Worlds Institute - The Arts of Science learning: Shaping the 21st-Century Workforce
Cornell University, Department of Ornithology - Crowd ID: Collaborative tools connecting people to biodiversity through social networks and machine learning

Recent Published & Presented Work

Butler, S. & Stutzman, N. (2011, July). Changing Teaching Materials through Evaluation and Collaboration. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Visitor Studies Association, Chicago, IL.

Ancelet, J., Butler, S., & Ong, A. (Fall 2010). Exhibition Review: Object Stories, Museums & Social Issues, 5(2).

Butler, S. (2010, October). Evaluation in the Development and Implementation of smARTphone Tours at the Dallas Museum of Art. In Sheila Carey (chair) Engaging the Audience: Understanding and Responding to our Visitors Needs. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Museum Computer Network, Austin, TX.

Butler, S. and Sobel, R. (2010, July). Conversations about Web Applications and Evaluation. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Visitor Studies Association, Phoenix, AZ.

Butler, S & Kysar, M. (2010, April). Evaluating Docent Teaching Practices. Presentation at the annual meeting of the National Art Education Association Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Butler, S & Kysar, M. (2009, July). Evaluating Docent Teaching Practices. Poster session presentation at the annual meeting of the Visitor Studies Association, St. Louis, MO.

Education

Certificate in Evaluation Practice, 2010, The Evaluators' Institute, The George Washington University.
M.A., Aesthetic Studies, 1998, University of Texas at Dallas, TX.
B.M., Ethnomusicology (with fieldwork in Papua New Guinea), 1993, Wheaton College.

Professional Affiliations

Visitor Studies Association (VSA)
National Art Education Association (NAEA)
Museum Computer Network(MCN)