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​On this page, I want to specifically demonstrate my service for the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art as an Associate Curator of Education. The museum provides me an opportunity to integrate my expertise in art education and museum education.

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The programs that I led:

  • Story & Studio Time (Changed to Family Day from Spring 2019)

  • Bringing Arts Integration to Youth (BRAINY)

    • ​Description:
      BRAINY is a program of the Allicar Museum of Art with assistance from the School of the Arts departments of Visual Art, Music, Theater, and Dance. BRAINY provides arts opportunities for students from Title 1 schools in northern Colorado. Students who enrolled in ART 326 Art Education Studio are trained and responsible for giving a 45-minute interpretive tour and designing art activities related to museum collections for participants.

    • Student tour-guide training:

      • The training aims to guide students to apply interpretive strategies to the tour is reinforced through the following steps:

        • Learning interpretive strategies 

        • Researching museum artworks

        • Writing a tour plan based on the museum’s permanent collections

        • Sharing tour plans with peers

        • Practicing the tour plan at the museum

        • Revising the tour plan

        • Leading BRAINY tours

        • Revising and reflecting on the led tours​

          To adapt to pandemic influence, ART326 students (2021 Sp term) created VIDEO TOURS for Virtual BRAINY. In particular, CSU Art Education collaborated with Professor Silvia Soler Gallego and her students at the CSU Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. In each group tour, Professor Gallego produced a Spanish version of one video clip and the art activity related to the video clip.
           

      • In 2022 Fall, I collaborated with the Curators of the exhibition Off the Shelf: Contemporary Book Arts in Colorado and developed the Book Hunter Bingo sheet and book art making activity for BRAINY. Professor Aitor Lajarin-Encina helped us translate the bingo sheet into Spanish to include Spanish speakers.

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A student was answering my question while filling out the Bingo sheet.

A student was experincing how to rub on bood blocks to get prints on paper.

The student was showing his book design.

A scene that the student tour-guide was leading students to observe the exhibition and complete their Bingo sheets. (October 2022)

  • Family Day​ (Started in 2019 Spring)

    • Art Education students ​design art education activities based on the museum's temporary/travel exhibition. There are three to four art activity booths at the museum's learning center to serve families. We had 43 on the first Family Day in 2019 spring and had more than 100 in 2019 fall.

      • 2019 Spring activity instructions

      • 2019 Fall activities: Geometric Animals, Alien Can, Shrink Down the Flatten Laser Design

      • 2020 Spring activities: Abstracting Landscapes, Abstraction game, Creating Portraits by Shapes, Depicting Sounds, 
                                                  Structuring Abstraction (Activity sheet pdfs)

        • We collaborated with Professor Silvia Silver Gallego from the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literacies and had Spanish tours for Spanish speakers. We had more than 140 people participate in the event.

        • Photo album​

        • Video tours (for the students who could not come because of the pandemic influences)

      • 2021 Fall activity: CYANOTYPE PRINTS~Let’s play with light!!!    English activity sheet    /     Spanish activity sheet​

        • When the museum reopened in 2021 fall on Sept. 8, we still had around 80 people participating in the Family Day event!

        • We collaborated with Professor Andrea Purdy from the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literacies. She helped us translate the activity into Spanish version.​

        • Photo album

      • 2022 Spring activities (with the topic of "IDENTITIES"): https://artmuseum.colostate.edu/events/art-science-family-day/

        • Creating an Identity Key Chain, Expressing the Self through Textures, Forming and Shaping Identities, Making a Mask to Represent You!!!, Making an Identity Kite, Printing Your Cultural Identity (All the activities were translated into Spanish, and we had a Spanish translator on-site to help with the event.). More than 270 adults and children participated in our activities.

        • Please click the picture below to link to each activity sheet!

      • 2023 Spring activities (with the topic of "SCALES IN ART")​

        • I led gallery tours, and Art Education students (ART326) facilitated the following art activities at the learning center:
          ChromaDepth 3D Mask,  Art Spy, Personal Imprint (Click the sheet links to view the instructions)

        • 104 participants participated​ within 3 hours.

        • Photo album

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Creating an Identity Key Chain, 2022

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Expressing the Self through Textures, 2022

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Forming and Shaping Identities, 2022

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Making a Mask to Represent You!!! 2022

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Making an Identity Kite, 2022

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Printing Your Cultural Identity, 2022

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