What is a Museum?

This free public art museum in Allentown, PA commissioned us to create an educational video for their patrons on the topic, “What is a Museum?”. As we often do, we used this as an opportunity to forge new connections. In this case, these new connections were between the different departments of the museum, for whom there are not always opportunities for interdepartmental interaction. We asked every staff member a series of questions about museums and art and stitched the answers together to create a compelling narrative (with puppets and animation!) that explains the function and purpose of an art museum. This video has been made available to all local public school students in addition to the local community of alternative learners (home schoolers, etc.).

We also offered a day-long professional development workshop for local public school teachers on a topic of their choosing: the use of unconventional materials in arts and arts-integrated curricula.