Hi! I’m Zoe Kessler, one of the 2 interns working in the education department at the Museum of Arts and Design. It’s only day 1 of my second week here at MAD and I’m already falling in love with this museum. If it wasn’t enough that the artwork that is being exhibited is some of the most gorgeous work I’ve ever seen, the people here are fun and passionate about the job they do. The energy in this building is incredible!
This past week at MAD I had the opportunity to participate in and assist with a 3-day Portfolio Development workshop. High School students from the Gotham Professional Arts Academy in Brooklyn participated in this program as part of the MADLab Summer Art Camp series. The students worked with an artist-educator to create and organize successful portfolios.
Ed: Brandon worked in the Open Studios at MAD with the Bamboo Bike Studio to create his own bike from bamboo. It’s not quite finished yet, but we’ll post photos when it is
It was a labor of love. Attaching bamboo pieces to make a bike frame turned out to be a laborious and beautiful process. Despite initial anxieties that I was perhaps not ready to be a creator, the actions required to bring something of utility and value into the world were laden with aesthetically memorable moments. I started out shaping the foam pieces that would act as joints between different pieces of bamboo.
On Thursday, June 10th MAD held a Professional Development program for teachers in conjunction with the current exhibition Dead or Alive. Professional Development Seminars are led by artists, curators and education professionals to assist teachers in utilizing art, craft and design in the classroom.
This past February MAD held a Professional Development seminar for teachers and educators in conjunction with the exhibition Slash: Paper Under the Knife. Andrea Dezsö– an artist featured in the exhibition– conducted a morning seminar. She discussing her practice and influences; followed by an afternoon hands-on workshop where participants created and assembled a four-layered, hand cut, tunnel book. During the seminar the professionals discussed creative ways of using this project in the classroom and integrating it into their school’s curriculum.
In conjunction with the exhibition Bespoke: The HandBuilt Bicycle, the Brooklyn based Bamboo Bike Studio worked in MAD’s Open Studio during MAD Saturday: Family Day.
In conjunction with the exhibition Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle the Bamboo Bike Studio out of Brooklyn worked in MAD’s Open Studio during MAD Saturday: Family Day.
For the past four and a half months I’ve had the privilege of working as an intern in the education department at the Museum of Arts and Design. I had a wonderful learning experience, one that stretched and inspired me as an educator and a professional, as well as a student and lover of the arts.
Teen Voices:
MAD Advisory Counsel emerged pretty organically. After four months of settling into my new responsibilities in my new position as Manager of School, Youth and Family Programs, I had been thinking of the next step in the Artslife program, an internship for teens whose pilot program began last summer 2009. Two teens from the Beacon High School had just dropped off volunteer applications at MAD’s visitor’s service desk. Though, not a customary practice to accept interns in the Museum in this fashion, the timing seemed appropriate. Why not respond now, call and interview these two students; they could certainly give me added insight into what it would be like to have teens interact with staff at the museum.
Both students are exceptionally smart, responsible, and interesting teen-agers. I arranged a meeting between the alumni of Artslife, myself and my two new teenage interns. After introductions and discussing the positives and challenges of the Artslife program in the summer of 2009, we decided upon a regular meeting time, and some initial ideas regarding the role and responsibilities of the Advisory Counsel. Delighted to have the Artslife Alumni back into the fold, I look forward to their continued counsel on matters that have to do with youth audiences for the museum, and their contribution on the interview process during the 2010 Artslife application process at MAD.
I participated in a walk-thru and critique with the students from Bridget Malloy’s Honors and drawing class at The Beacon School. I was invited to attend the tour, but; since I was there I participated in the dialogue. The exhibition at Beacon was inspired by their recent visit to MAD to see the exhibition Slash: Paper Under the Knife. The Beacon work is ambitious, well executed, sometimes political, sometimes beautiful and very inventive. All of the work, done with paper, looked at the exhibition for inspiration.
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