Patty Bode
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Museums, Communities and Engagement for Social Change

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UMCA/University Museum of Contemporary Art. University of Massachusetts Amherst December 2015. Students from Springfield Conservatory of the Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Cultural institutions such as museums play a pivotal role in advancing cultural rights in communities.  I have had the privilege of working with several museums and cultural institutions to invigorate community engagement and advance the voices of youth and their families; teachers and their schools; professors of teacher educators and their undergrad and graduate students.  In May of 2016 I delivered a keynote address to Mueums10 , which is a "collaborative of 10 museums that inspire, engage and enrich their communities through shared experiences of art, literature, history and the natural world."  My keynote talk focused on museum life as a civil right and was titled: "Museums, Engagement and Creating Social Change." In March 2017, I expanded on that keynote when I presented a session at NAEA titled,  "Cultural rights: Changing engagement among museums, art educators and youth communities." Here is a downloadable PDF of the slides of the NAEA power point which provides an overview of a forthcoming article. That article, and this PDF synthesize several case studies of engagement projects which focus on  three questions: 1) Sense of purpose: What is the museum for?  2) Sense of belonging: Who belongs here?  3) Sense of participation: How do I fit in? What is my role in museum life and what is the museum's role in my life?

- Patty Bode copyright 2017
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  • About
  • CV & Portfolio
    • CV
    • Art Gallery
  • Publications
  • Awards & Grants
  • Presentations
    • Videos
    • Conferences
    • Keynote Talks
  • PK-12 curriculum
  • Community Art Practices
    • Remember Love Recovery Project
    • Unity Flag Project 2020
    • Museums, Communities, Engagement
    • Family Court Mural Project
    • Senegal-America Project
    • Digital Visual Culture Project, BPS
    • Juvenille Justice Art Education
    • Ecuador: Amazonian Secoya Community