SIXTH-GRADERS FROM WASHINGTON HEIGHTS WORK BEHIND THE SCENES AT MOMA DURING CITYWIDE SHADOW DAY
Twenty-nine sixth-graders from Washington Heights will get an introduction to the working world and learn how a museum operates when they participate in Citywide Shadow Day at The Museum of Modern Art on November 9.
Citywide Shadow Day has been coordinated for MoMA by the Internship and Public Programs staff of the Museum’s Department of Education. An annual event co-sponsored by The Board of Education of the City of New York and the Colgate-Palmolive Company, Citywide Shadow Day helps students to learn about the workplace through adult mentors. It is designed to provide students with knowledge of the working world and to encourage them to identify and pursue higher education goals.
After an orientation beginning at 9:30 a.m., the students will tour one of MoMA’s current major exhibitions, ModernStarts: Places. Each student will then be paired with a personal mentor from various Museum departments, including Architecture and Design, Conservation, Development, E-Commerce, Education, Film and Video, Finance, the Library, Photography, Security, Special Programming and Events, Telecommunications, and Writing Services. After completing their assignments, the students will have lunch with their mentors in the Museum’s Garden Café. The day’s events will end at 1:00 p.m.
DETAILS
WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street
WHEN: Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
WHO: The 29 sixth-graders are from Intermediate School 143.
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: By pairing each student with a mentor, MoMA offers each student the
opportunity to experience one of many aspects of Museum work. Activities include accompanying a guard on a security walk through the Museum, helping to organize a set of photographs for the photography department, and general office duties for the various departments.
Press and photographers must pre-register to cover this event. To RSVP, contact Kena Frank, Department of Communications, at 212/333-6597.
ABOUT MoMA’S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION:
Founded as an educational institution in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art has been dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual
arts of our time. The Department of Education, a vital link between
The Museum of Modern Art and its public, offers programs for adults, children, families, students, and visitors with disabilities and special needs. MoMA hosts family programs, such as One-at-a-Time Gallery Talks, Tours for Tots, and Family Films, that offer children and adults the opportunity to enjoy art together, as well as school programs that encourage students and teachers to develop skills for understanding, analyzing, and enjoying art.
ABOUT MODERNSTARTS:
The first of three cycles of exhibitions organized by MoMA under the banner MoMA2000, ModernStarts focuses on the period 1880–1920. Occupying three floors of the Museum, ModernStarts is organized under the rubrics of People‚ Places, and Things, with each floor conceived as an innovative grouping of several exhibitions. People explores aspects of figural representation in early modernism through several exhibition themes; Places demonstrates the broad interpretations of site, both real and imagined; and Things examines the importance of the object, both real and depicted, in early modernism.
ModernStarts is organized by John Elderfield, Chief Curator at Large; Peter Reed, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design; Mary Chan, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings; and Maria del Carmen González, Associate Educator/Middle and Elementary School Programs Coordinator, Department of Education.
