Category Archives: Education

What’s Behind the Green Doors?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Maya Valladares

On the first floor of the Museum, if you look to your left while waiting for the double elevators, you will notice two wide green double doors. If they doors are open, you might see some works of art on … Continue reading…

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It’s important to draw in the Museum

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Maya Valladares

Sculptors and painters draw constantly. Architects, botanists, designers, and many a traveling student have been known to constantly have a sketchbook in hand. But what about teachers? Dancers?  Surgeons? What about you? I spent a recent Saturday at an inter-disciplinary … Continue reading…

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Inside the Staff Show

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Maya Valladares

On May 4, the Brooklyn Museum’s staff show opened to a group of staff, family and friends. Though the show is not open to the public, the wonder of Flickr makes it possible for visitors to see some of the … Continue reading…

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An Invitation to The Dinner Party Institute

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Cheri Ehrlich

This summer I had the opportunity to further investigate ways to teach students about feminist artworks from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection when I participated in “An Invitation to The Dinner Party Institute.” Held at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, the Institute … Continue reading…

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Collaborations, Continued

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Jennifer Bantz

The current exhibition Andy Warhol: The Last Decade features some remarkable paintings that Warhol made with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente in the 1980s. With the earliest of these, one artist would begin a canvas and then it was circulated … Continue reading…

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Shout(Out) Brooklyn! A Visitor-Curated Target First Saturday

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Last month, our Adult Programs team came to me asking how we could help create a visitor-curated Target First Saturday.  It was one of those situations where the web team didn’t have a ton of time, but the idea of … Continue reading…

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Teens Unite at Two Institutions

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Cheri Ehrlich

In celebration of the new relationship between Brooklyn Museum’s Costume Collection and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, teen programs at both museums have joined forces to offer fashion related events for teens. On Friday, May 14, … Continue reading…

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Teen Night Events Planning Committee

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Cheri Ehrlich

This year, with the help of my colleague, Museum Educator, Keonna Hendrick, we’ve created the Brooklyn Museum Teen Night Events Planning Committee. The committee consists of eight high school students who meet two to three times a month to plan … Continue reading…

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You Shot Rock

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Jennifer Bantz

Album covers are a part of rock photography that seems to resonate with people’s everyday experience. In talks with our Design and Education staff, we decided that the Who Shot Rock exhibition might be a great opportunity to experiment with … Continue reading…

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Eye Spy Caillebotte

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Cheri Ehrlich

In anticipation for the exhibition, Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea, my colleague and I, Adelia Gregory, Museum Educator and School Partnership Coordinator, created a small guide to be used in the galleries to encourage visitors to … Continue reading…

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