Curating Your Future
Robert Rock Belliveau and Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum provided a unique opportunity for learning invaluable skills. Interns developed essential communication and interpersonal skills for personal and professional growth by working with museum professionals, enabling them to educate and inform peers and visitors. Participants learned about museum operations, art, and cultural history and developed communication skills by working with museum professionals and visitors.
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The project also inspired students to create their own art and poetry. During their first four-week internship, they completed two major projects. In the initial two weeks, they created a handbook for docents and a flyer about the sculpture garden. They focused on a project tailored for elementary school students for the following two weeks. Designing activities to encourage interactive visits empowered students to create art and poetry, which deepened their understanding of the arts and sparked their curiosity.
What is the connection between this outreach project and the principles of the portrait?
Learners developed communication and interpersonal skills by working with museum professionals and visitors.
Students expanded inside and out through hands-on learning about art and cultural history.
The project contributed to local cultural preservation and K12 arts education.
Several interns will continue on to train new interns and pass on their knowledge.
"My favorite interactions so far have been the ones with older patrons. Many have connected with or loved the art since much of the work on display spawned from movements that passed during their generation. I can imagine my joy if, when I am older, I see art made during my current favorite art movements that I never saw before. It is like uncovering a hidden gem of history. Seeing the museum touch people spiritually and emotionally is inspiring."
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- STUDENT