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Box 35

 Container

Contains 55 Results:

Meeting with Mayor DeBlasio, 2021

 File — Box: 35, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Education helped to create and participated in a presentation to the Mayor of New York City to advocate for additional funding for the Museum.

Dates: 2021

"The Uncertain Profession", 1984-1990

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

These folders contains a report written by Elliot Eisner for the J. Paul Getty Center for Education, and a summary of the discussion of the report from a conference. It includes observations of the Museum education field for long term planning.

Dates: 1984-1990

Collaborative for Creative Practice and Social Justice, 2016-2019

 File — Box: 35, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a program brochure from a "convening" of a cohort of NYC and North Carolina cultural institutions. They focused on building the cohort, evaluation and social impact, relationship to community, justice and equity, and sustainability. The BkM participated and specifically had a project called Arts as Social Justice which brought the Museum and art making into classrooms.

Dates: 2016-2019

Protest, Decolonize This Place, 2018

 File — Box: 35, Folder: 40
Scope and Contents This folder includes protest materials from actions at the Museum. Partially in response to the Museum hiring a white curator of African Art Decolonize This Place called on the Museum to participate in the formation of a Decolonization Commission that would address injustices (paraphrased from the flier). They called on the Museum to make a Land Acknowledgement, the diversify curatorial and executive staff, a decolonial inventory, an upgrade in working conditions of ground staff, the...
Dates: 2018

Brooklyn Museum Racial Equity taskforce, 2016-2019

 File — Box: 35, Folder: 42-50
Scope and Contents

These folders include information on employee trainings, research and resources, and action plans for the taskforce.

Dates: 2016-2019