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Art Education

Skidmore College

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Supporting Artists In The Gallery: The Role Of The Museum Educator At An Art College, India N. Clark Aug 2011

Supporting Artists In The Gallery: The Role Of The Museum Educator At An Art College, India N. Clark

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

Campus museums are uniquely positioned to enhance student learning and support faculty in achieving course objectives. By tapping the potential of objects, exhibition themes, and the gallery environment, museum professionals can empower faculty and students to make meaningful and relevant connections to curriculum content. Inspired by the successes in such endeavors of revered teaching museums at elite liberal arts colleges, but frustrated by the challenges of transferring model practices to the context of an art college, I set out to investigate what was possible at my own place of employment, the nation's only publicly funded art college, Massachusetts College of …