In the News

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• People in the News
  • Spertus Museum promoted Susan Bass Marcus from Curator of the ARTiFACT Center to Senior Educator of Spertus Museum.
  • Katrina Stacy has been appointed Assistant Curator of Education at the Worcester Art Museum. Her responsibilities include collections, education and interpretation; in addition, she is responsible for managing the Museum’s docent program. Before taking this position, Katrina who has a Masters of Art Education from the Rhode Island School of Design was the Outreach Coordinator for the Museum.
  • Cheryl Palmer is honored to say that she received the 2005 AAM Excellence in Practice Award from EdCom.
  • Board member, Sarita Rodriguez, along with Jana Magruder and Nancy Josephson were awarded the 2005 Award for Excellence in Published Resources (Teacher Category) for the collection "For Texas: The Big Picture." This collection of resources enhanced Texas: The Big Picture, a giant-screen film produced by the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. The goal was to develop versatile museum resources that provided curriculum connections for the film and the teaching of Texas history in the classroom that were aligned to national standards. The materials included pre and post visit materials for students who saw the film, student activity guides, and a collection of images. Since the premier of the film in 2003, more than 5,000 teachers have utilized the bilingual materials to great success.
  • Caren S. Oberg is now working as a freelance consultant in visitor research and museum evaluation. Caren graduated from the George Washington University Museum Education Program in 1999 and has since worked to promote exhibition and program evaluation in a variety of museums. She is based in Alexandria, VA.
• Places in the News
  
  • The ARTiFACT Center at the Spertus Museum received the Arts Advocate Distinguished Partner Award from the Chicgo-based organization, Art Resources in Teaching.
  • The Worcester Art Museum celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Art pARTnership with Elm Park Community School this June. Each graduating sixth grade student will be named an “ART partner for Life” and will be given free lifetime admission. The Art pARTnerhsip brings over 400 inner-city students into their museum for multiple visits and engages students in studio and gallery activities that are part of an arts-based social studies curriculum.
    Submitted by Honee Hess, Director of Education, Worcester Art Museum
  • Inside Egypt, a collaborative project between The Dayton Art Institute and the Dayton Public Schools, opened May 21, in the Experiencenter, the Art Institute’s interactive family gallery. The goal of the collaboration is to provide students in the Dayton Public Schools with a museum-quality arts education experience by developing an exhibition for the museum’s family gallery that will find a permanent home in the New Visions Museum of the Dayton Public Schools. The New Visions program is a school-based “sensory museum” which serves children in grades 1 and 4 who are part of the Dayton Public Schools. Developed by the education staff at The Dayton Art Institute, the exhibition will remain on view in the Experiencenter through April 2006. At that time, the majority of the show will find a permanent home at the New Visions Museum in the Dayton Public Schools. In addition, The Dayton Art Institute has produced an educator resource guide to assist Dayton teachers in connecting the Egyptian exhibition to other subject areas. Teachers will also have the opportunity to attend specially designed workshops providing them with the tools they need to integrate the arts into their classrooms.
    Submitted by Arlene Branick, Associate Educator for the Experiencenter, The Dayton Art Institute