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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.

February 3, 2015 | Collection & Exhibitions, Learning and Engagement

Sketching from Life: Drawing Sessions Inspired by The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec

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

Sketching from Life drawing sessions at MoMA inspired by The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters. All photos by Manuel Molina Martagon. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

In 2014, MoMA’s education, curatorial, graphic design, exhibition design, and marketing departments collaborated to develop an interactive learning space adjacent to the exhibition The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters. This is the third interactive space we’ve developed in relation to an exhibition, following the success of Performing John Cage and the Polke Pop-Up Activity Space. This café-like space offers activities and resources to connect participants with Lautrec’s life and artistic process using both unfacilitated and facilitated approaches.

August 7, 2013 | Events & Programs, Learning and Engagement

Asking the Big Questions: Agora Conversations in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden

Posted by Alison Burstein, Associate Educator, Studio and Artist Programs, Department of Education

Agora: What makes something art?, facilitated by Petra Pankow. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, July 9, 2013

“What do we want from museums?” As the topic for the final meeting of this summer’s educator-facilitated, public discussion series, Agora, this question fittingly articulated the line of thinking that motivated the program’s unique format and approach. While Agora (named after the ancient Greek tradition of philosophical inquiry)

July 2, 2013 | Artists, Events & Programs

Embodying the Archive: Xaviera Simmons on Archive as Impetus (Not on View)

Posted by Jordan Carter, 12-Month Fluxus Collection Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints Hanna Exel, Louise Bourgeois 12-Month Intern, Department of Drawings and Prints

An Archive as Impetus performance in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Photograph courtesy of Xaviera Simmons)

An Archive as Impetus (Not on View) performance in MoMA’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Photograph by Martin Seck

Plenty of people think of museums, libraries, and archives as stagnant and apolitical places; sites where histories are not created, but simply preserved. In her performance Archive as Impetus (Not on View)—presented several times per week during the month of June as part of MoMA’s Artists Experiment initiative—artist Xaviera Simmons asked viewers to reconsider the role of the museum.

June 20, 2013 | Artists, Events & Programs

Living History: Xaviera Simmons and Archive as Impetus

Posted by Sheetal Prajapati, Associate Educator, Public Programs

An Archive as Impetus performance in MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. Photograph courtesy of Xaviera Simmons

What do women artists want?

This question is announced through a microphone, repeated—carrying out into MoMA’s Garden Lobby and on to the second-floor Marron Atrium as visitors stop, turn, and listen.

May 3, 2011 | Events & Programs, Intern Chronicles

The Art of Conversation

Posted by Colleen Brogan, Digital Learning Project Coordinator

Leading Museum visitors through a Gallery Conversation

Part of the 12-month internship program is the opportunity to facilitate a Gallery Conversation, a one-hour guided tour of the galleries for the public. As a 12-month intern, I was given the opportunity to pick any topic or works I loved and research diligently—but what I have learned is that when I speak to the public, the research is less important than the conversation.