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<\/a>Art History major Emma Shouse with alumnus Mike Murawski, at his gallery presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n
Thanks to funding from the School of Arts and Letters, the Art Department was happy to welcome back Dr. Mike Murawski (BA – Art History and History, 2000),\u00a0Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, and Pacific Region Director for the Museum Division of the National Art Education Association. \u00a0Dr. Murawski met with students and faculty and spoke to several classes, including the interdisciplinary Museum Studies class taught by Dr. Sara Orel.<\/p>\n
He also led\u00a0a program in the University Art Gallery. His interactive presentation, “Art Encounter: The New Education in Museums and Galleries,” gave the attendees several models of how to involve visitors to an art exhibition that did not start with an authority delivering a contextual lecture. \u00a0These exercises were designed to draw out observations and responses from the viewers. \u00a0Techniques included group-writing poetry and shaping (folding and tearing)\u00a0paper\u00a0in response to images, among other approaches.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Mike Murawski (class of 2000), Heidi Cook (Gallery Director), and Art History major Emma Shouse arrange\u00a0torn and folded paper responses to a quilt in the University Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n
During his visit, Dr. Murawski\u00a0had a chance to speak about his path from Truman to American University for his graduate degrees. \u00a0He returned to Missouri, where he worked as the head of education for\u00a0the Saint Louis Art Museum. \u00a0While there he was selected the Missouri Art Educator of the Year (Museum Education) for 2011.\u00a0 He is an innovator in the use of digital technology in Museum Education and has been involved with the MacArthur Foundation\u2019s Connected Learning initiative, the National Writing Project, the Educator Innovator initiative, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the New Media Consortium\u2019s Horizon Report 2013 Museum Edition, the Advisory Board for Art History Teaching Resources. \u00a0We were very happy to have him visit and the students who interacted with him had a good opportunity to talk with a specialist in a field many are interested in pursuing. \u00a0Thank you for the visit and talks, Mike!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Art History major Hannah Nicks reads a group-written poem in the University Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n
If you are an alum and have news\u00a0to share, please write to us at <\/u>art@truman.edu<\/u><\/a>\u00a0 We\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to funding from the School of Arts and Letters, the Art Department was happy to welcome back Dr. Mike Murawski (BA – Art History and History, 2000),\u00a0Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, and Pacific Region Director for the Museum Division of the National Art Education Association. \u00a0Dr. Murawski…Read more Museum Educator (and Alumnus) Visits Truman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":415,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}