Affinity Project - A three-part program that includes research, workshops, and community activation plans to strengthen relationships between law enforcement and the community.
Witness to History - Panel discussion series that explores important historic moments in law enforcement history.
Conversations - Quarterly panel discussion series that examines contemporary topics like opioids and predictive policing.
Brewsday - an after hours program for young professionals that offers fun and engaging ways to learn about law enforcement, while socializing with peers from diverse backgrounds.
The Briefing Room - Content producers across a range of disciplines provide divergent perspectives on law enforcement, including career professionals, book authors, podcasters, journalists, and community activists.
Family Programs
Family Fun Day - a quarterly program that provides hands-on activities for parents and children, including performances, guest presentations, activity carts, face painting, scavenger hunts, and art-making.
Science Saturday - a monthly program in the Learning Center that explores law enforcement through the lens of science, technology, and engineering.
Storytime - Law enforcement Volunteers share stories that bring law enforcement to life for young audiences.
School Programs
Forensic Workshops - Workshops cover topics ranging from fingerprints and impressions to DNA and Forensic Pathology.
Traveling Workshops - Workshops offered offsite that cover topics ranging from fingerprints and impressions to DNA and Forensic Pathology.
Scout Workshops - Workshops specifically designed for boy/girl scouts and explorer groups.
Law and Society Workshops - These workshops teach students about their constitutional rights, police policies, and rules regarding the use of force.
Teen Leadership Council - High school students meet once a month to plan events at the museum.
Teacher Advisory Group - Teachers meet quarterly as advisors who help strengthen connections to teachers and students.
Evening for Educators- An annual event and reception for teachers in the DMV area.
Virtual Classes - Virtual classes hosted on Field Trip Zoom and Streamable Learning that focus on law enforcement history, women in law enforcement and forensic science.
Camps
Forensic Detectives Summer Camp - Students aged 10-15 engage in hands-on training in the basics of crime scene investigation from fingerprints to DNA, and tool marks to trace.
Duncanson Artist-in-Residence Program - An annual two-week residency that celebrates the achievements of contemporary African American artists in honor of Nicholas Longworth and Robert S. Duncanson.
Cohen Distinguished Lecture Series - A yearly lecture series that features noted scholars in the area of nineteenth century European art.
Chamber Music | Tunes of the Taft | Fall Jazz Series - A series of monthly music performances held from January through October that features classical, jazz, country and rock music.
YP (Young Professional) Programs - Program organized quarterly in conjunction with special exhibitions. The program includes tours, art making, music, talks and discussions, and opportunities to socialize with peers and professionals.
A Deep Look: Participants are invited to look closely at a single work of art for a prolonged period of time.
Symposium - A symposium organized in conjunction with Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape. The speakers included: Lynne Ambrosini, Director of Collections and Exhibitions; Nienke Bakker, Curator of Van Gogh Paintings Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands; David A. Brenneman, Wilma E. Kelley Director Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington; Heather Lemonedes, Curator of Drawings and Interim Co-Chief Curator Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Kevin Robbins, Associate Professor of Modern French Urban and Cultural History Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort, Professor Emerita American University, Paris; Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Independent Art Historian, Paris
School Programs
Artist Reaching Classrooms - A program that provides opportunities for high school students to meet with work with living artists and to create art that is exhibited in an annual exhibition. Awards and scholarships are made available to the top five winners. Student artwork is on display at the public library for 3 months.
Learning Through Art - A year-long partnership with Wade Elementary School to strengthen arts integration in the classroom. The program included weekly classes held at the school and student exhibitions. A special focus was placed on literacy and oral communication.
Curriculum Tours - Passport to Art - Language Arts for grades 2-8; Daily Life in the Past - Social Studies for grades 2-3; Ohio “State of the Art” – Social Studies for grade 4; China Connection – Social Studies for grade 6; The Apple and the Rectangle - Math and art for grade 4; Probability Tour of the Taft Treasures - Math and art for grades 6-8.
Family Programs
3rd Sunday Funday - A monthly family program designed around a them related to the permanent collection or temporary exhibition that includes performances (puppet shows, mimes, live history storytellers, etc), art cart activities, art-making, and scavenger hunts.
Preschool
Taft Junior - A special pre-k program for parents and pre-k children that features storytelling in the galleries (based on a them in the permanent collection) and art-making in the Dater education space.
Taft Junior on the Go - Taft Junior reformatted to outreach opportunities at locations like the Cincinnati Public Library.
Senior Programs
Memories in the Museum - A year-long program for patients with Alzheimers organized in conjunction with the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati Museum of Art and the Alzheimer’s Foundation.
Making Connections: VTS Symposium, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, April 2013. Conference featuring VTS representative Nancy Jones.
Bill Traylor Symposium, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, April 14, 2012April 2012, (Keynote Speaker, Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, Susan Crawley, High Museum of Art (Tours of historic Montgomery led by historians Mary Ann Neeley and Richard Bailey)
Ekphrasis: A Monthly Book Club about Art and Artists. The program included a multimedia presentation and visiting authors on site or via Skype.
Art Talk - Quarterly meetings that provide opportunities for community artists to discuss and exchange ideas about the art and artistic practice.
Studio Classes
After School Art and Young Artists - After school painting classes for elementary school students
Adult Art Classes - Offering one day to weeklong art workshops that included painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, and stained glass.
School Programs and Tours
American Scene: A fifth grade tour that included every school in the Montgomery Public School System. This three-part tour included tours of the permanent collection, the ArtWorks family interactive gallery, and art-making activities. The tour made curriculum connections to history, social social studies, math, and the visual arts.
AP Art History - the AP Art History class was held daily throughout the year to educate students about the history of art. Students learned to identify works of art by artist and time period and analyzed individual works of art in depth, comparing and contrasting art from different world cultures and periods. The class included gallery study and trips to other museums.
After School Art - A special art program organized in partnership with Mt. Meigs Juvenile Correction Facility and Campus.
Teen Council - Teens met once a month with education staff to plan two major events a year that celebrated artistic expression in the form of poetry, music, dance and visual art.
Family Programs
Family Art Affair - A monthly family art-making program held in the museum’s studios, in conjunction with Jazz Jams featuring local jazz musicians. The program focused on themes related to special exhibitions.
Preschool
Tales for Tots - A monthly preschool program that included storytelling and artmaking
Kindergarten
The Art of Baking - an annual puppet show that educates young audiences about the "art of baking" through the language of color and movement. The puppets represent a diversity of cultures and includes video projections and musical performances.
Learning to Look - a curriculum tour that focused on the formal elements of art for grades 1 through 3. Tour included hands-on activities in the studio and tours of the collection.
Georgia Children at Work and Play - A tour for third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades that focused on regional history. The tour included multiple visits to the Columbus Museum’s Chattahoochee Regional History gallery, Historic Columbus and Port Columbus Museum. Tours focused on history and social studies.
VTS Conference for Educators featuring Phillip Yenawine. Noted scholar and researcher, Phillip Yenawine led discussions on the core principles of VTS.
Adult Programs Symposium
American Decorative Arts Symposium - The symposium featured prominent scholars in the field of collecting and interpreting decorative arts in the United States: Dr. Philip Zimmerman, Museum and Decorative Arts Consultant, discussed "Duncan Fyfe and Furniture Making in New York City"; Dr. Stephen Harrison, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Cleveland Museum of Art, addressed "Early Modernism in the Work of Louis Comfort Tiffany"; Dr. Joseph Cunningham, Curator, American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, discussed the topic of his most recent publication, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs; and Ulysees Grant Dietz, Senior Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum, addressed "The Art of Pottery from Rookwood to Robineau, 1880-1930."
Art and Artists Book Club - a monthly book club about art and artists. Book discussions were accompanied by PowerPoint presentations that provided art historical and biographical information about topics in the book.
Rothschild Distinguished Lectures - Prominent scholars were invited every year to address topics related to the Museum’s collection and exhibitions: The Right Chemistry: Color in Fashion 1700-1900, Anne Bissonnette, Guest Curator for January 2009; The Eight, Mathew Baigell, January 19, 2008; Let the Records Show, Dr. Anthony Carey addressed the history of slavery throughout the Chattahoochee Valley.
Teacher Workshops - Teacher workshops, coordinated with the Muscogee County School District, were offered annually during the winter break and summer periods.
Family Programs
Family Art Affair - A monthly program that included tours of the museum and hands-on studio activities.
Family Fun Day - Two major events a year held for families, including performers, art making, demonstrations, and tours.
Preschool Tales for Tots - A preschool program that included storytelling and artmaking
Senior Programs
Coffee Break for Seniors - a program that provided tours and presentations related to special exhibitions, social hour, and delectable treats.
ARC Teen Council - Teens met once a month with education staff to plan two major events a year that celebrated artistic expression in the form of poetry, music, dance and visual art.
Urban League and Teen Leadership. A series of after school programs that explored identity in the works of Carrie Mae Weems, artists in the collection, and artists featured in Art:21.
Summer Camps
On the Way to Grandma’s House - Inspired by Grandma Moses exhibition. Camp was developed in partnership with the Discovery Museum
Happily Ever After - Camp examined stereotypes in children’s literature. This camp was organized in partnership with Girls, Inc of Chattanooga
Girls Make the Message - Girls from Girls, Inc studied the aesthetics of hip hop, created graffiti murals, and worked with choreographers to learn hip-hop dance routines.
After School Program
Boys and Girls Clubs - An after school program that encouraged personal responses to works of art. Discussions were recorded as audio and video podcasts
Adult Evening Programs
Hunter Happens - Special programs held every Thursday evening. Programs ranged from artist talks and demonstrations to dance, music, and drama performances.
Jazz and the Blues was a program that explored the meaning of the blues as conveyed in jazz music and 20th century modern art. Featured band: Sweet Georgia Sound
Music at the Hunter - A part of Hunter Happens, a series of musical performances featuring such artists as the Fletcher Bright Bluegrass Band, and the pop, rock singer Leticia Wolf.
Junior Curators - 5th grade students attended weekly training sessions in preparation for public tours of the collection. Tours covered the Museum's architecture and paintings from the late 19th century to contemporary.
Wonder of Birds - Two family programs that were designed to educate families about the Museum’s Audubon print collection, organized in partnership with the Raptor Center on the campus of Auburn University.
Sketchbook Saturday - A drawing class for children and parents that focused on sketching in the galleries from works in the permanent collection.
Teacher Workshops
Advancing American Art and John James Audubon - One-day teacher workshops for K-12 teachers in the Auburn school district.
Rodin Rediscovered - One-day workshop organized in partnerships with Auburn City Schools in preparation of the special exhibition Rodin Rediscovered.
School Programs
3rd Grade Curriculum Tour - A tour developed for third grad teachers based on Disciplined Based Arts Education.
Junior Curators - 4th grade students in Auburn public schools attended weekly training sessions in preparation for leading collective tours of the permanent collection.
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School Programs
Arts in the Basic Curriculum - A multi-visit curriculum tour program for 4th grade that focused on arts integration in over five content areas in the museum, including Asian art, Pre-Columbian art, Egyptian art, African art, American art, European art, and contemporary art. The programs consisted of a teacher orientation session and four visits per school.
Outreach Programs
Community Women Against Hardship - A monthly outreach program for low-income families that used works in the collection to find personal meaning in works of art.
Summer Camps
Summer camps - Egyptian Art Camp - Egyptian theme-based camps
SAVVY: Media Influence in Contemporary Society - A three-week camp for middle and high school students organized in partnership with the Des Lee Endowed Professor, E. Louis Lankford.
Gallery Talks
George Inness and the Italian Presence in Landscape Painting - A gallery discussion for the general public that explored George Inness's In the Roman Campagna and the general influence of Italy on 19th century artists.
Dox Thrash Rediscovered - a gallery discussion about Dox Thrash, printmaker and inventor of the Carborundum Mezzotint.