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Learning & Engagement Idea Center

Art Bridges Learning & Engagement helps partners create programs to connect with new audiences, engage current ones in new ways, and highlight interdisciplinary elements.

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Photos courtesy of the Crocker Art Museum

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  • Youth and Family,
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  • Diversity,
  • Breadth

Black History Month Family Festival at the Crocker Art Museum

By collaborating with community partners, as well as local and regional BIPOC artists, the Crocker Art Museum’s Black History Month Family Festival created an atmosphere of joy and connection for its visitors, surrounding the Art Bridges Collection loans by Elizabeth Catlett, David Clyde Driskell, and Jack Whitten.

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Guest speakers and attendees at the lecture “For Which It Stands: Brick by Brick: Black Women Breaking New Ground”, hosted at the Avery Research Center at College of Charleston, July 2022. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charlston, NC). Programming inspired by the exhibition Fights for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice. The exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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  • Innovative,
  • Interdisciplinary,
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Waiting for Gorky’s Mother, Child’s Companion (Companion)

The Yellowstone Art Museum collaborated with Montana State University to write and produce a film that accompanied the display of Arshile Gorky’s “Child’s Companions.”

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  • Access,
  • Community Building,
  • In Gallery,
  • Learning,
  • Reach

Making Abstraction Accessible: Translated Materials and In-Gallery Handouts at Old Jail Art Center

The Old Jail Art Center highlighted the work of Norman Lewis, particularly “Untitled (Subway Station),” by providing visitors with individualized in-gallery pamphlets and wall texts in both English and Spanish.

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  • In Gallery,
  • Youth and Family,
  • Students,
  • Tours and Talks,
  • Reach,
  • Breadth

Scavenger Hunts and Tours at the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center

The William Bonifas Fine Arts Center maximized exposure to the “Vision of American Art” exhibit by offering tailored tours alongside age-specific scavenger hunts and hands-on activities.

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  • Depth,
  • Community Building,
  • Innovative,
  • Interdisciplinary,
  • Wellness,
  • Tours and Talks,
  • Access,
  • Diversity

Dinner with Chef Sean Sherman: Reclaiming Native American Food

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art hosted Chef Sean Sherman, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe who led a workshop on foraging and cooking with at-risk youth followed by a discussion over the prepared dinner.

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  • Access,
  • Youth and Family,
  • Tours and Talks,
  • Breadth

Meet the Museum at the Harn Museum of Art

To provide access to a major regional art museum and introduce a diverse group of young people to careers in museums, the Harn Museum of Art offered programming that included in-class lessons and museum visits for middle and high school students.

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  • In Gallery,
  • Community Building,
  • Depth,
  • Students,
  • Artist Collaborations

True Stories – Visions of American Life

The Dennos Museum Center partnered with Here:Say Storytelling and students enrolled in the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District’s Front Street Writers program to record personal stories responding to the artworks in “Visions of American Life: Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, 1850–1940.”

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  • Community Building,
  • Innovative,
  • Interdisciplinary,
  • Wellness,
  • Youth and Family,
  • Reach,
  • Access,
  • Breadth,
  • Students

The Art of the Book: Papermaking, Bookbinding, and Zines

The Art Museum of West Virginia University (WVU) offered a series of artmaking workshops, including papermaking, bookbinding, and zine-making, designed to support literacy and complement the “Radiant Pages: The Art of the Book” exhibition.

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  • Community Building,
  • Interdisciplinary,
  • Students,
  • Perception,
  • Breadth

Echoes of Levine: A Collaborative Zine

Museum of Wisconsin Art collaborated with artists and the public to produce a zine inspired by Sherrie Levine’s “After Russell Lee: 1-60.”

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  • Community Building,
  • Innovative,
  • Youth and Family,
  • Reach,
  • Breadth

Paint Pour at Newfields

Inspired by the work of Lynda Benglis, Newfields invited families and visitors of all ages to join in the creation of a large pour painting.

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  • Community Building,
  • Interdisciplinary,
  • Youth and Family,
  • Tours and Talks,
  • Diversity,
  • Awareness,
  • Breadth

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians: Cultural Festival at Mobile Museum of Art

In partnership with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Cultural Affairs Program, Mobile Museum of Art presented a cultural festival that included performance, artifact sharing, and dialogue centering on Jeffrey Gibson’s “Migration” and the larger exhibition “(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art.”

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  • Community Building,
  • Youth and Family,
  • Perception,
  • Access,
  • Reach,
  • Diversity,
  • Breadth

Mirror Me Art: Making Self-Portraits at Millard Sheets Art Center

Located on the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, Millard Sheets Art Center transformed an unused space to capitalize on fair attendance by offering hands-on art activities like drawing and clay sculpting.

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  • Community Building

Self-Fashioning at the Syracuse University Art Museum

In collaboration with Jeantrix founders Nyce and Homm, the Syracuse University Art Museum hosted a two-part program exploring identity, race, gender, and fashion through Mickalene Thomas’s work. The program featured an interactive art workshop and a Community Day meet-and-greet highlighting the intersection of art and entrepreneurship.