Learn how three different academic art museums develop meaningful and effective educational opportunities for students and faculty that create and disseminate knowledge while also preparing them to be world citizens. This session demonstrates the benefits of museums changing their educational approaches through expanding their models, letting go of traditional roles as “authorities” and allowing others to play a significant role in the research, curatorial, and programmatic aspects of museums.

1. When Academic Museums Teach 21st Century Skills
Katie Lee-Koven, Executive Director & Chief Curator, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Jill Hartz, Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
Heather Lineberry, Senior Curator and Associate Director, Arizona State University Art Museum

2. ”Tride and True” Academic Museum Programs That Teach 21st Century Skills
-Guest Curated Exhibitions by Faculty or
University Classes
-Student Advisory Groups taking lead on
outreach programs
-Internships
-Cross Disciplinary Exhibitions and Programs
21st Century Skills: Problem solving - Creativity - Analytic
thinking - Collaboration - Communication - Ethics, action,
and accountability

3. Museum + Music Series
Connecting the Visual with the Aural
Katie Lee-Koven
Executive Director & Chief Curator

4. Questions we asked when developing the Museum + Music Seres:
How do we get new audience members?
When should we schedule this series?
How many events should there be in this series?
What’s the budget?
How do we connect with our academic mandate?
Structure:
Three Concerts each semester
Always One Student Performance
1-2 Guest Performances
One Faculty Performance

5. How does this series “prepare students with 21st century skills?
Problem solving - Creativity - Analytic thinking - Collaboration
Communication - Ethics, action, and accountability

6. Agnes Pelton
This may have been better as a concert later once people knew what to expect. Too esoteric and too
contemporary performance based
ENCHANTED MODERNITIES:
Mysticism, Landscape & the American West
Where it Started

9. Christine Odlund

10. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE:
Shaping Craft & Design exhibition

11. Crafting Silence: The Music of John Cage

12. Second Year of Museum + Music: “Indigenous Expressions”
Abstraction and the Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Painting from the Western Desert

13. Maria Martinez and Julian Martinez, Plate, Santa Clara, ca.
1936, earthenware 13 in. diameter. Gift of Rachael Dunaven
Yocom and Gertrude Shurr.
Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1969-70, acrylic on plexiglass disc , 48 inch
diameter, Mari Eccles Caine Ffoundation Gift
Transcendence: Abstraction & Symbolism in the American West

14. Alaska Before US: The Music of the Russian Orthodox Church and John Luther Adams

15. Songs from the Great Basin with Arnold Thomas

18. Karaoke Kitsch: This is Your Band in conjunction
with symposium and exhibition A Matter of Taste:
Art, Kitsch, and Culture

19. What’s Next?
Students are researching collection through the lense of “Manifest
Destiny,” pairing a music composition and artworks in the collection.
The concert will be the result of highlighting a few of these selections
of art and music with the students performing the music.