Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational program

Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns and Fellows participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.Week Three: For the Interns and Fellows’ Tuesday program this week, we were first given a tour of the Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. Our guide, who’s been working with the Museum for 17 years now, was a wonderful lady who talked to us about her own journey and how the visit to the installation many years ago inspired her into pursuing the job.This gallery visit was then followed by the much anticipated Black Gotham Experience walking tour. Kamau, the founder of the project, led us around lower Manhattan and talked to us about the erased history of slavery and rebellion of early New York. Named Sarah’s Fire, the tour focused on the act of rebellion that happened on Wall Street on April 6, 1711. Continuing off last week’s theme on archives, we had discussions about the importance of archives and how power plays a role in the way history gets told. After the tour, we met Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, back at the Museum. She talked to us about what goes behind curation of an exhibit and gave us her own views on the artworld. She never shied away from any of the questions we asked and gave us honest, detailed answers. Getting to sit down and talk to one of the leading curators of the Museum was an insightful experience for all the interns.Posted by Umisha KC -- source link

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