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Mennello Museum of American Art
Orlando, FL
Following an exhibition tour, students made cyanotype prints using native Floridian flora and fauna and experimented with their own photography using Instax polaroid cameras. In addition to practicing printmaking and film photography basics that mirror Will Wilson’s process, students gained tactile connections between photography, chemistry, and natural science. At the end of the workshop, all participants were gifted Instax cameras and film to continue photography beyond the program.
Mennello Museum of American Art aimed to engage 40 to 80 local teens as well as emphasize the importance of self-representation and encourage an understanding of the photographic process through the work of Native American artists.
The museum welcomed 61 people with its Viewfinders program. Though originally targeted at teen audiences, the museum found that the program appealed to others beyond the proposed high school students and expanded the activity to accommodate elementary students and middle schoolers as well. Ultimately, many of the participating students came from Orlando’s most underserved neighborhoods and had not previously visited the museum, so this program proved to help engage more local students with the exhibition and the museum’s free resources.
In addition to in-gallery lessons and activities, think about what physical take-home tools you can offer participants, so their engagement doesn’t end with a facilitated one-time activity. By gifting free cameras to participants of the Viewfinders program, the museum offer edits young visitors a reusable resource that likely would not have been accessible to them otherwise.The free workshop, coupled with the gifted cameras, provided a foundation for these students to continue exploring photography independently, whether at the museum orin their own communities.
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) created resources designed for blind and low-vision visitors to access the “Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice” exhibition. It partnered with NewView Oklahoma, a low-vision advocacy group, to review and promote the exhibition's new accessible materials.
Drawing inspiration from the “Walker Evans: American Photographs” exhibition, the Mattatuck Museum offered a cooking class series led by local chefs who taught participants a recipe that combined Great Depression methods and their own cooking styles.
Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) created resources designed for blind and low-vision visitors to access the “Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice” exhibition. It partnered with NewView Oklahoma, a low-vision advocacy group, to review and promote the exhibition's new accessible materials.
