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Katonah Museum of Art
Katonah, NY
Thinking Through the Arts was a multi-session, multidisciplinary program that connected elementary language arts and visual arts curricula with the Katonah Museum of Art through poetry, visual art, and creative movement. Led by poet Pamela Hart and dance educator Tamar Ettun, students responded to Marsden Hartley’s “Give Us This Day” using descriptive and narrative language as well as improvisational movement. The in-school program culminated in a public showcase where students shared their poetry, artwork, and choreography with family, friends, and community members. The program engaged students from local Title I schools, emphasizing access, expression, and cross-disciplinary learning.
Through this program, the Katonah Museum of Art hoped to prompt new conversations and create new multi-layered experiences for at least 400 students. It especially wanted to reach immigrants from Latin America — as student populations at local schools are over 60% Latino — and provide insight into American landscape painting.
The museum reached 400 students from Title I schools in its county. Students felt empowered to express themselves through the written word, movement, and visual art.
Museums planning a similar program should begin by grounding interdisciplinary activities in a single exhibition or artwork that serves as a shared anchor across writing, visual art, and movement.
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The Hyde Collection created a sensory experience in which visitors were invited to create their own 3D cityscape, drawing inspiration from "Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes."
A one-day music festival was planned to engage local audiences.
To activate the “Un/Natural Selections” exhibition, the Gibbes Museum of Art partnered with community wildlife and conservation organizations in presenting artmaking activities, yoga classes, and birding and garden demonstrations for intergenerational audiences.
The Hyde Collection created a sensory experience in which visitors were invited to create their own 3D cityscape, drawing inspiration from "Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes."
A one-day music festival was planned to engage local audiences.
