Brooklyn Museum
Program: Access to Arts
Area of Work: Arts
Grant Purpose: Education Programs
Overview
As the largest cultural institution in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Museum offers free admission to more than 650,000 visitors a year, with nearly 40% of visitors self-identifying as people of color, approximately 60% under the age of 45, and many first-time museum visitors. Its collections and exhibitions are globally. heralded, and while a destination for citywide, national and audiences, the Museum is dedicated to serving its neighbors through both access and representation.
Grant
Purpose: To support art education programs, including School Programs, Teen Programs and Family & Community Programs.
Education is one of the core pillars of the Brooklyn Museum’s mission. The Museum is particularly committed to youth in neighboring communities, where nearly half of children live below the poverty line, less than half complete high school, and college readiness is 0–5%. The school district in which it is located is one of the most “arts-poor” school districts in the State. The Museum serves as one of the borough’s leading arts educators — and “Brooklyn’s Largest Classroom” — providing services to over 50,000 students. In addition to programs for youth, the Museum provides professional development for teachers to support training around content-aligned strategies and tools for arts integration, as well as programs for seniors, other adults, and teens.
Impact
For the 2021-2022 school year, Brooklyn Museum expects to serve more than 17,000 students from at least 900 schools nationwide through their breadth of programs, including:
- In-depth School Partnerships
- Gallery Visits
- Professional Resources for Teachers
- Arts of China Toolkit
The Museum will also welcome a cohort of 75 paid interns, who will reach nearly 4,000 audience members through programming that they will plan and lead. Their Family and Community programs will reach more than 4,000 children and their caregivers through multigenerational weekend programming and camps that help nurture a strong foundation for learning.
