Showing posts with label youth arts camps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth arts camps. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

A Brief introduction...

Hello world.
Master of the Blog has commanded I introduce myself, so as a newbie to this whole blogging 'thing', I will give it a shot.....
My name is Kathryn and I am the School Programs and Artreach coordinator here at the Museum.... aka, the graduate assistant. I am a grad student here at William and Mary, studying school psychology. Having received my masters in May, I am now working on my Education Specialist degree.... oh yes, I'll be a master and a specialist. Now, how did a school psychology student end up in a museum?? I think its a grand ol' thing called fate. I have enjoyed tackling this new challenge and field, and learning about art, art history, and the ins-and-outs of a museum, which a year ago seemed like a whole other world to me.
As the school programs coordinator, I help to connect schools to the museum and exhibitions housed here via lesson plans and such. Artreach is a new program we are piloting and testing out, which involves bringing museum resources to the classrooms and schools, eliminating the red-tape and logistics nightmares, on the part of the teachers, of getting field trips here.
This summer, I have been working with the other fabulous ladies, Miss Caitlin and Miss Ansley, during a two-week gifted and talented art camp, as a part of William and Mary's Summer Enrichment Program for gifted students, grades K-10. With a week of The Artistic Word and a week of Looking to Listen, we connected art to the written word and to music with a cross-disciplinary approach to expression. Then, following the two weeks of GT classes, we have been hosting our own youth arts camp for kids with Miss Jen and have just been having fun.
I will admit now that I am neither sly nor witty, but will attempt to be somewhat entertaining, if not informative.
So stop on by, come see what we have here. Trust me, you will learn something new.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Hello!

I was told by the venerable Blog-Master Rusty, to write a blog to introduce myself. I'm Caitlin, and I'm an intern at the Muscarelle, working in the DEN as the Assistant Public Relations Coordinator. Though mostly I help out with everything, not just PR, but nice fancy titles never hurt anyone, right?
The Blogs that I've read are fun, witty, and a little bit sarcastic. However I can merely hope that our humble little blog will achieve those ideals. In real life I think us DEN-dwellers encompass all those things and more. And just as an aside, DEN stands for Development, Education, and New Media. The title serves as a cute little pun, since our office space is small, cozy, and just a little bit cluttered.
For the past few weeks, we've been hosting youth arts camps, and preparing the marketing for our upcoming exhbition Beyond the Edge of the Sea (Opens Sept. 5th- Come see it!) So the DEN itself is currently a jumble of press releases and crayons, layout notes and elmer's glue. We've also incorporated our new sunny, symmetric, and stupendous logo into everything we do. 
At this point I must get back to work, look for more posts to come!

-Caitlin

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