We are the 2016-2017 Museum Education Fellows! In September we went through 6 weeks of intensive tra

We are the 2016-2017 Museum Education Fellows! In September we went through 6 weeks of intensive training which included daily meetings with the Fellowship Coordinator, pedagogy and practice workshops with Brooklyn Museum Educators, Curators, Conservators, and more! Since mid-october, collectively, we have taught over 440 visiting school groups (that’s over 10,000 individuals!) along with many other programs. Here is a taste of what else we’ve been up to since then….Jackie Du is a School, Youth and Family Programs Fellow. Her Guided Gallery Visits focuses on liberation through self-empowerment. and has an upcoming School Partnership with Kindergarten at PS 104. In Family Programs Jackie works with Meet the Museum for ages 2-3, Family Art Magic for ages 4-6, and Creativity Lab: a free with admission monthly program for visitors all ages. Jackie also assists the Museum Apprentice Program for high school students who are training to teach summer camp tours. Her research is focusing on students’ deep thinking and curiosity during GGVs.Midrene Lamy is a School, Youth and Family Programs Fellow. She works with the Teen Night Planning Committee, a group of teens hired to create public programs for teen audiences. Midrene is currently teaching a drawing animation class for 8-10 year olds in the Gallery/Studio Program, called Drawing Movement. Another component of her fellowship are Guided Gallery Visits for visiting school groups and the PS154 school partnership. Lastly, she’s currently working on a research project centered on the experience of black self-guided visitors.Sarah Chavarria is a School, Youth, and Family Programs Fellow. They developed and are teaching the curriculum for Build a Better Brooklyn, a 10-week Gallery/Studio course for artists ages 8-10. Completed a school partnership with Lyons Community School where they led students and trained them on how to use Visual Thinking Strategies. Sarah also conducts lessons for K–12 school groups in the galleries. As well as teach and co-program multigenerational art-making activities for monthly First Saturday Hands-on Art program. Sarah is researching the empowerment of young women of color in the museum through teen programs.Camilo Godoy is an Adult and Public Programs Fellow. He teaches Guided Gallery Visits to K-12 school groups that use movement based activities and theater games to engage students with the museum’s exhibitions. He assists in the coordination of Public Programs including the museum’s favorite night: Target First Saturday, as well as Brooklyn Talks, Artists’ Eye, Art of Yoga, and the museum’s partnerships with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. For his research project he is occupied with thinking about the impact of movement based pedagogy in museum education. Follow him on Instagram @camilogodoyHaley Graham is a Public Programs Fellow. Along with teaching gallery lessons to general ed, integrated co-teaching (ICT), and self-contained K-12 school groups, Haley also plans and develops public programs that are geared toward our adult audiences, with a focus on Thursday nights. She coordinates regular programs like Brooklyn Talks, Art History Happy Hour, and our monthly Salsa Party, along with special programs such as Defending Immigrant Rights: A Brooklyn Call to Action and Brooklyn Comedy Marathon: Fierce, Funny, and Feminist. Haley is an advocate for accessibility initiatives within Brooklyn Museum’s public programs.Chris Moyer is a Public Programs Fellow from New Jersey.  On Wednesdays through Fridays you’ll see him frolicking throughout the Museum, aka leading K-12 school groups leading guided gallery visits. On Saturdays Chris hosts First Saturday programs as well as a the monthly “Artist’s Eye” series in which contemporary artists share personal insights into special exhibitions. At the Museum, his passions are grounded in questions of power and access to space, and he advocates for museums as sites of community agency. @masahikokun on Instagram.Posted by Jackie DuPhotos: Jonathan Dorado -- source link
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