IMLS Director Anne-Imelda Radice with Opening Speaker Francie Alexander, Senior Vice President of Scholastic Education and Chief Academic Officer of Scholastic Inc.

Heritage Preservation President Lawrence Reger delivers welcoming remarks.

Forum attendees listen to the panel sessions on day one.

The panels on the first day of the forum were held at the Denver Public Library.

Bruce Cole, Chairman of NEH, and Adair Wakefield Margo, Chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, chat with forum attendees between sessions.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper greets forum attendees before the Keynote Address.

 

NEH Chairman Bruce Cole introduces Keynote Speaker Elizabeth Broun.

Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, delivers the Keynote Address.

Forum attendees walk over to the Colorado History Museum for the evening reception.

The reception was held at the Colorado History Museum.

Forum attendees get a chance to network at the reception.

 

Panel sessions on day two took place at the Denver Art Museum.

The Connections Lab gives forum attendees and opportunity for one-on-one discussion and networking.