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Box 104

 Container

Contains 46 Results:

Perceptarium: Experimental teaching gallery, 1977-1980

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents These folders include proposals, meeting minutes, correspondence, evaluations, research, children's artwork, and other materials. The Perceptarium was meant to be an experimental teaching space in the Museum. Using art objects and media, Museum educators would encourage close looking, connections and deep learning. The Perceptarium was inpsired by James Sullivan's article of the same name that called for academic Art Departments to revolutionize learning by rejecting tradition. He called for...
Dates: 1977-1980
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Youth and Family Programming / Administrative Files

Correspondence about building addition, 1977

 File — Box: 104, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Correpsondence on the new addition to the building and what would become the sculpture garden.

Dates: 1977
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Administrative Files / Staff and Director Files / Director of Education Files / David Katzive, Assistant Director for Education and Program Development

Docents, History and purpose, 1975, circa 1988

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes a brief history, tracing the more modern docent program to 1960 with the Community Committee having both docents for tours in the Museum, as well as Museum on Wheels outside of the Museum. Copies of archival documents from the Archives include information on the 1910s docent program.

Dates: 1975; circa 1988
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Adult Learning

Brooklyn Expedition Website, 1997-2004

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Brooklyn Expedition was a collaborative and joint venture from the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the Brooklyn Public Library. All 3 institutions worked together to create a children's website that could be viewed in the Brooklyn Museum's Learning Center, or at school, or in the viewer's home. These folders contain strategic planning, meeting minutes, drafts of text, correspondence, and reports. The Brooklyn Museum's website was launched in 1996, so this is a...
Dates: 1997-2004
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Administrative Files

History and reports, 1977-1979

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The Resource Center began as an exhibition resource center for the 1978 exhibit Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan. The center offered users books, pamphlets, and visual materials related to the exhibit. After the exhibit closed, the Resource Center was used by the Education department as a valuable tool for increasing access to collections, and information. The Center was the space for requesting pre-visit kits; the Center created thematic exhibitions on panels...
Dates: 1977-1979
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Community Services and Programs / Resource Center

Correspondence, 1985-1986

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes information on the closing of the Community Gallery.

Dates: 1985-1986
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Community Services and Programs / Community Gallery

Descriptions of department and policies, 1977-1985

 File — Multiple Containers
Dates: 1977-1985
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Community Services and Programs

Goddess in Indian Art, 1979-1980

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The Brooklyn Museum has a long and varied history of providing innovative and thoughful adult and public programming. Programming has included music, concerts, film series, lectures, panels, workshops, and seminars. The Adult and Public Programming has worked with various other Brooklyn Museum departments like conservation, the libraries and archives, and all curatorial departments to create unique programming. A few examples of programming include: West Indian American Day...
Dates: 1979-1980
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Adult Programming and Public Programming / Programming

Hannah "Toby" Rose - Statues Hardly Ever Smile, 1971-1974

 File — Box: 104, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This series contains records from the Directors, Vice Directors, and Deputy Directors of the Education division and the Learning and Social Impact Division. Vice Directors and Deputy Directors are on the highest administrative level of the Museum, at times called the Cabinet.

Most of the records in this sub series document large policy, pedagogy, and/or proposals for new initiatives. There is also a small amount of material related to Decolonize This Place protests.

Dates: 1971-1974
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Administrative Files / Staff and Director Files / Director of Education Files

Correspondence with Channel L, 1977-1980

 File — Box: 104, Folder: 2-5
Dates: 1977-1980
Found in: Brooklyn Museum Archives / RG-07, Education Division Records / Administrative Files / Staff and Director Files / Director of Education Files / Gerard LeFrancois, Vice Director for Education and Program Development
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