Well, I should say you did it. After a successful Kickstarter campaign (thank you!), months of work digitizing issues of The Docent Educator, putting the issues in a searchable format, organizing them into Web publishable pages, creating PDFs for downloads, printing books for high level donors (in two volumes!) we …
The impulse to connect events in the news to works of art in museums is common among art museum educators, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has created a team to bring that impulse to life. Every Wednesday in the NewsRoom, a conference room lined with white boards and …
by Guest Blogger Dina Rose Friedman 2013 wasn’t shaping up to be a great year. Almost 16 years to the day that I was hired as Site Director for author Washington Irving’s home, Sunnyside, I was downsized. I quickly went through the Elizabeth Kubler Ross stages of grief adapted for …
There are a few sweet treats among these in honor of the holiday season. All the Rowboats The Art of Reproduction Mapping the Wind (Long load time but it’s worth it.) Su Blackwell’s book sculpture People of the Art Museum Watching this and this Behind the Wire Flight Delay Next trip 3D …
There are so many great stories to tell about my month-long residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. (http://www.gardnermuseum.org/news/2013/july_2013) Which one to share? One of the best is about the lady herself, and how her amazing legacy lives on in the vision of the Gardner staff. When Isabella Stewart Gardner assembled …
I thought you might enjoy a sneak peek of what I’ve been working on as educator-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Here’s an excerpt from the guide to interpretive writing, more to come! Authenticity Lack of authenticity implies a lack of respect for your audience. If you …
I’m spending the month of June as the educator-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The task I’ve set for myself is to produce some guides for interpretive writing about art, to be published here on Museum-Ed. I started the month by watching Arts and the Mind (2012), …
Here’s a new favorites* list in honor of AAM in Baltimore next week. If you’re there are whiling away the time between sessions, this should entertain you. If you’re not there, this should console you. Natural Histories: Rare Books from the AMNH Library The Embroidered Color Wheel Tate’s WonderMind Roanoke, …
by Troy Smythe I’m reflecting on current trends in art museum educator career paths while listening to The Puppini Sisters’ version of “I Will Survive” (which lives in my Killer Cocktails playlist, I’ll pause here while you find it on iTunes). As an independent consultant I sometimes embed myself into …
On December 4 and 5, 2012 the leadership of sixteen internationally recognized U.S., European and Canadian art museum education organizations came together in Austin, Texas to establish communication channels to work together in the future to support our common goals. Organizations that serve the needs of art museum educators, whether …