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July 25, 2016 | Events & Programs

“Gay Jungle Galaxy Prom”: The Open Art Space Program Comes Out Swinging

Posted by Mark Joshua Epstein, MoMA Teaching Artist and Open Art Space Co-Creator

Exploring MoMA's collection and searching for new narratives. (Photo by Kaitlyn Stubbs.)

Exploring MoMA’s collection and searching for new narratives. Photo: Kaitlyn Stubbs

On a Thursday afternoon earlier this summer, apprentice educator Tali Petschek and I rushed around the Education Center, heading up to the seventh floor to ferry down supplies to our classroom on the mezzanine level. It was the culminating session of Open Art Space, a new MoMA Teens drop-in program for LGBTQ high school students. For our 15th and final session of the season, we decided, in collaboration with some of our most devoted participants, to do an LGBTQ prom-themed photo shoot. Teens wanted at least a taste of a prom they couldn’t have in their own schools, where they could bring whomever they wanted, dress however they wanted, and explore whatever gender roles felt right to them at that moment.

May 26, 2016 | Collection & Exhibitions, Events & Programs, Learning and Engagement

Degas in Process: Why Monotype?

Posted by Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs Alethea Rockwell, Assistant Educator for Exhibition, Gallery, and Artist Programs

All photos by Manuel Martagon. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

For the past five weeks, we have organized a series of weekly monotype printmaking workshops, Degas in Process: Make a Monotype, in conjunction with the exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, on view on MoMA’s sixth floor through July 24. Taking Degas’s innovative use of the monotype as a starting point, these workshops are led by teaching artists—Justin Sanz, Sophy Naess, Neil Berger, Kerry Downey, and Bruce Waldman—each of whom brings a unique creative approach to their session and offers a glimpse into the sustained relevance of the monotype technique in contemporary artistic practice.

May 18, 2016 | Events & Programs, Learning and Engagement

Prime Timers’ Thoughts on Aging and Art

Posted by Laurel Humble, Assistant Educator, Community and Access Programs

Albert Bukszpan in a recent Prime Time painting class. Photo: Beatriz Meseguer

I’m an educator here at MoMA, and I am 30 years old. When I teach in MoMA’s galleries I am mostly talking with people who are twice, sometimes three times my age. It’s not something I anticipated when I was an art history student 10 years ago, but it is one of the more informative and enlightening aspects of my job: discussing art with people who have far different—and far more—life experiences than I do.

May 17, 2016 | Artists, Learning and Engagement

Experiments in Engagement with Wafaa Bilal

Posted by Henry Murphy, Fellow, Public Programs MoMA/Studio Museum in Harlem

As the fellow for public programs at MoMA, part of my focus is working with artists to develop experimental programs that position the Museum as a resource for the public, artists, and “non-artists” alike. This season, I worked with artist Wafaa Bilal to develop a two-day public workshop, Dynamic Encounters: Experiments in Engagement to develop, execute, and present what Bilal calls an “open-ended performance” workshop that became a space for experimentation not only for participants but for Bilal and the Museum as well.

April 22, 2016 | Learning and Engagement, Library and Archives

Touching Art: Teaching with the MoMA Library’s Artist Book Collection

Posted by Alethea Rockwell, Assistant Educator for Exhibition, Gallery, and Artist Programs

Making the Moving Image: Past to Present workshop, April 2, 2016, The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Manuel Martagon. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Earlier this month, I worked with artist and educator Mark Joshua Epstein to bring a group of workshop participants to view objects in the MoMA Library that are not typically associated with modern art: artist-made flip books. This visit was part of Making the Moving Image: Past to Present, a studio workshop about experimentation with animation techniques that predate the invention of cinema. I watched participants hold and manipulate the books and was struck by how the direct physical contact with an artist’s work makes visiting the library’s collection of artist books so unique.

December 23, 2015 | Learning and Engagement

Learning with Museums: On Place and Proximity

Posted by Wendy Woon, Edward John Noble Deputy Director for Education

This past Veteran’s Day I had an extraordinary experience at MoMA. Aaron Hughes, an artist and Iraq War Veteran, invited two small groups of strangers into an intimate exchange: he made tea for us. He made tea for us in what might seem a very strange place within the museum, on a bridge next to MoMA’s Walid Raad exhibition, near Take an Object, and in proximity to Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War one floor above—all of which include work that reflects artists’ responses to war. Walid Raad, a friend of Aaron’s, was excited that this would take place near his installation.

October 30, 2015 | Events & Programs, Learning and Engagement

The Warhol Pop-Up: How Participation Can Enrich Visitors’ Experiences with Art

Posted by Jackie Armstrong, Associate Educator, Visitor Research and Experience, Department of Education

The Education Department is passionate about engaging visitors with art and ideas, bringing people together and creating experiences in which the visitor becomes an active participant. Most recently, there has been an initiative to bring more participatory, hands-on, and creative experiences outside of classroom walls and closer to art in the galleries. For example, from May to September 2015, 16 “pop-up” art-making sessions took place right outside the exhibition Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Cans and Other Works: 1953–1967</a>. Each of the afternoon sessions was two hours long and open to anyone who wanted to take part.

July 24, 2015 | Events & Programs

Breaking Down Barriers: A Continuing Tradition of Access Programs at MoMA

Posted by Francesca Rosenberg, Director of Community, Access, and School Programs

A Meet Me at MoMA program for individuals with Alzheimer's or dementia and their family members or care partners at The Museum of Modern Art. © The Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Jason Brownrigg

The appreciation of art can be a powerful point of human connection. People come to MoMA from all over the world, each with rich, diverse personal experiences. A moment in front of an artwork at MoMA could be the spark for two seemingly different people to share a connection, conversation, and inspiration. Access to these fundamentally enriching experiences is imperative. MoMA’s commitment to access for all is embedded in the history of the institution itself, beginning with one of the Museum’s earliest innovations in art education

July 14, 2015 | Artists, Learning and Engagement

Notes on Yoko Ono’s White Chess Set

Posted by Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs

Participants playing an exhibition copy of Yoko Ono’s White Chess Set (1966/2015) in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. All photos: Manuel Martagon. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

“CHESS SET FOR PLAYING AS LONG AS YOU CAN REMEMBER WHERE ALL YOUR PIECES ARE.”

These are the words inscribed on a brass plaque on the underside of Yoko Ono’s original White Chess Set (1966)—a work that is currently on display in the exhibition Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971 (open through September 7, 2015). In conjunction with this show, an exhibition copy of Yoko Ono’s celebrated work is installed and open for public engagement in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden throughout the summer.

June 30, 2015 | Intern Chronicles

Making Architecture Accessible: Architectural Adventures in Chicago

Posted by Jessie Parsons, 12-Month Intern, Office of the Director

Chicago skyline, taken from Grant Park. Photo: Jessie Parsons

In early May I set out on a four-day journey to Chicago, Illinois. I began the trip wondering how architectural organizations in Chicago, a city so densely packed with renowned buildings and structures, approach the challenge of engaging their viewers with these works. How can architecture be made more accessible? What techniques are used? Curated exhibitions of images, models, and research, or tours and activities that physically involve the structures? What methods have been found to be the most successful?

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