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Photo of the month (above): In 2019, the Missoula Art Museum piloted a free distance-learning platform called “Museum as Megaphone,” with the goal of reaching rural and Tribal populations across Montana. The onset of the pandemic in early 2020 accelerated the growth of this nascent platform helps ensure Montana youth are exposed to contemporary art, all for free! Learn more in the February 2022 edition of Museums and Communities News. (Image of the exterior of Missoula Art Museum, courtesy of the museum)
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Vermont's Shelburne Museum will be fully powered by renewable energy by the end of 2021 due to two solar arrays on museum property. Image courtesy of Shelburne Museum
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Nic Nicosia’s "bighands" created opportunities for kinetic learning and a discussion of how hands can be a means to experience the world for those without sight. Image courtesy Nasher Sculpture Center
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Cincinnati Art Museum patrons view Deborah Butterfield’s sculpture "Horse No. 1," August 2020. Photograph by Erin Geideman
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The Birmingham Museum of Art, image courtesy of the museum
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A grocery distribution at the Museum of Latin American Art, image courtesy of the museum
Museums and Communities News - March 2021
From the Henry Art Gallery's Set in Motion exhibition: Genevieve Gaignard, "Frontline (Nothing to Hide)," 2017. Image courtesy of the artist/Sound Transit.
Museums and Communities News - February 2021
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Museums and Communities News - January 2021
One of the Currier Museum of Art's art therapy programs for veterans, active duty service members, and their families; image courtesy of the museum
Museums and Communities News - December 2020
At the start of the pandemic, Corning Museum of Glass staff found many ways to help their communities, including using 3D printers to create face shields and other PPE. Here, John van Otterloo of the Chemung County Library Distric and Ryan Langile, Corning Museum of Glass, pose with some of these 3D printed face shields. Photo by Sarah Langille, courtesy of Corning Museum of Glass.
Museums and Communities News - COVID relief edition (April 2020)
The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY was one of dozens to donate gloves and masks to local medical facilities at the start of the COVID pandemic.
Museums and Communities News - March 2020
Jenny Bevill, Missoula Art Museum educator and outreach specialist, conducting a Museum as Megaphone pilot session. Photo courtesy of Missoula Art Museum
Museums and Communities News - February 2020
The Dali Museum’s Innovation Lab uses the strategies of visual innovation to generate resilience and empower individuals to reimagine their lives and then to step into that new world. The Dali uses this museum-based model of creative problem solving to help women living with domestic violence, or recovering from substance abuse or confinement, to reenter the work force. Photo courtesy of the Dali Museum
Museums and Communities News - January 2020