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Making SPACE: An innovative high school program creating artists and winning awards

By Lydia Ross and Ricardo Gamboa
This post originally appeared on the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) DNA blog on October 3, 2018, and is republished here with permission. Each year AAM’s Education Committee (EdCom) …

Call for Applications: Aroha Fellowship for Museums & Creative Aging

By Elizabeth Merritt
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American Alliance of Museums Empanels Education Task Force

By Joseph Klem

The Citizenship Project

By Samantha Rijkers
Samantha Rijkers, Citizenship Project Manager, New-York Historical Society

‘Art Rx’: museum tours linked to easing chronic pain

By Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper

Exploring a Fragmented Future

By Elizabeth Merritt
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What makes K-12 public school educators choose to use a museum as part of their curriculum?

By Amber Geary
A woman in a blck top with a black apron that says Wellin on it stands smilling a the camera with a group of children in the background.

Seeding Vitality Arts with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

By Meg Nicoll

Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum

By Sonnet Takahisa

50 years later, St. Louis’ Gateway Arch emerges with a new name and a skeptical view of western expansion

By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism

By Ashton Lattimore, Slate

Meeting Teachers Where They Are

By Meg Davis
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Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time

By Ivette Feliciano, PBS.org
Category: Curatorial Practice
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Museum Creates Program for Families Suffering from the Opioid Crisis

By Zachary Small, Sarah E. Bond, Hrag Vartanian, Jasmine Weber, Naomi Polonsky, Hyperallergic
Category: Influence of Museums
Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone. For families hurt by addiction, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire has created an unprecedented program that …

Introducing TrendsWatch2018: The Scenario Edition

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
“The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.” —Mary Catherine Bateson TrendsWatch 2018: The Scenario Edition has been released into the wild! This …