[MCN-L] Register for "Learning to Look and Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy" at University of Kentucky

[Betha Whitlow]

The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) is pleased to announce
that registration is now live and filling fast for *Learning to Look,
Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy*, to be held on March 2,
2018. This workshop will be hosted by *University of Kentucky Libraries in
Lexington, KY, *and is open to cultural heritage professionals, the
information, museum, and educational communities, and to anyone interested
in visual culture. *Learning to Look, Looking* *to Learn* is one of four
workshops being offered in the 2017-2018 VRAF Regional Workshop Program.
The VRAF is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their continued
support of this exciting opportunity to partner with cultural heritage and
educational institutions.



As our culture moves from an oral tradition to a visual one, an increasing
emphasis is being placed on developing the visual literacy skills of both
educators and students, uniquely positioning those who work with visual
media to provide necessary visual literacy training and instruction. This
workshop will provide participants with the tools to develop and implement
a visual literacy training program. Part one of this workshop will focus on
visual literacy skills and pedagogical approaches by exploring objects at
the University of Kentucky Art Museum. The afternoon session will focus on
ways for participants to apply these pedagogies to their own work and
institutions. Participants will discuss and develop ways to implement and
evaluate their own visual literacy programs as well as how digital
archives, art objects, and other primary sources can be used by staff,
students and faculty. The question of what it means to teach from
collections within a range of professional perspectives–-including from
information, museum, and education contexts—will also be explored.

*Learning to Look, Looking to Learn *will be taught by Jessica Sack, the
Jan and Frederick Mayer Senior Associate Curator of Public Education at the
Yale University Art Gallery. Jessica has worked in the field of museum
education for more than fifteen years. In that time she has been developing
professional development programs in Visual Literacy for a variety of
audiences including librarian, teacher, and faculty workshops, and training
graduate students as museum educators. In addition, Jessica works with area
teachers and faculty, helping them find ways to teach from objects and hone
their own observation skills. Prior to Yale, Jessica was the Senior Museum
Educator and Coordinator of Teacher Services at the Brooklyn Museum. She
has contributed to publications including *The Caring Museum: New Models of
Engagement with the Ageing, Interpreting the Art Museum, * “Looking to
Learn, Learning to Teach” *Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin *and *Picturing
a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture*. Jessica
received her M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from Oxford
University, England, and a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York
University. She previously instructed* Learning to Look, Looking to Learn:
A Workshop on Visual Literacy* at the University of California Berkeley and
at Colorado College.



To register for *Learning to Look, Looking to Learn *and to learn more
about the workshop, visit http://www.vrafoundation.com/visual-literacy-KY.  The
fee for this day-long workshop is $125. If you have questions about
registration, feel free to contact Betha Whitlow, VRAF Director,
bwhit...@wustl.edu. For questions about the venue, please contact Crystal
Heis, cnhei...@uky.edu or Karyn Hinkle, karyn.hin...@uky.edu.


-- 
Curator of Visual Resources + Lecturer (Spring 2018)
Co-Chair, Danforth Staff Council
Washington University in Saint Louis
bwhit...@wustl.edu
314.935.5256
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[MCN-L] Join us at the 2018 Building Museums Symposium!

[Averie Shaughnessy-Comfort]

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) is proud to present the 2018
Building Museums® Symposium

*What is this symposium?*

The symposium is organized under three inter-related themes: Vision,
Implementation, and Sustainability (or Life after Opening) . The content of
each day will reflect these themes across a broad range of museum sizes and
scales, budgets, scope of building projects, disciplines, and collecting
vs. non-collecting institutions.
Who is the symposium for?

This symposium is for architects, museum leaders, planners, project
managers, technical experts, and all those who plan or implement new
construction, renovation, or expansion projects for museums. Whether your
institution is a small historic site under renovation, a mid-sized art
museum planning an expansion, or a large children’s museum building a new
facility, this symposium is for you.

Building Museums® is an annual international symposium created, produced
and managed by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums [MAAM] but is open
to everyone with an interest in this important topic.

*Learn more:* http://midatlanticmuseums.org/building-museums/

*Register:* https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-building-museumstm-symposium-
tickets-41123276828

*Sponsor* (See page 11 for sponsor opportunities): http://
midatlanticmuseums.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2018-
Building-Museums-Program-and-Registration-FINAL.pdf


Please excuse cross postings.

*Averie Shaughnessy-Comfort*

*Executive Director*

Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums

PO Box 4

Cooperstown, NY 13326

Cell: (412) 310-7999



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