PartnerStories

Explore how our partners are deepening connections and engagement with their communities.
Border Cantos Sonic Border at the Westmoreland Museum of Art
  • Evaluation

Westmoreland Museum of American Art Partner Story

Using evaluation to inform exhibition marketing and programming, and measure impact at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art

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  • Cohort Program

California State University, Northridge Art Galleries Partner Story

Harnessing the transformative power of the visual arts to encourage midterm election participation

Scavenger Hunt at the Munson Museum
  • Learning & Engagement,
  • Cohort Program

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Partner Story

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute strengthens its ties with local communities.

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  • Traveling Exhibitions,
  • Cohort Program

Boise Art Museum Partner Story

Using inclusive design for their presentation of Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea, the Boise Art Museum reduced barriers to participation by expanding accessibility.

Spoken word artist shares a completed Juneteenth-inspired square that was part of the threads we share quilting and story collection program
  • Cohort Program

Allentown Art Museum Partner Story

Embracing the power of storytelling and collaboration, the Allentown Art Museum launched a community quilting project to build connections and celebrate difference.

Nicholas Galanin  I Think It Goes Like This (Gold)
  • Art Bridges Collection,
  • Learning & Engagement

Missoula Art Museum Partner Story

Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist Nicholas Galanin’s "I Think it Goes Like This (Gold)" inspires the Missoula Art Museum to elevate local Indigenous voices thorough their inaugural Art Host program.

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  • Art Bridges Collection,
  • Learning & Engagement

San Antonio Museum of Art Partner Story

In a careful re-consideration of its city-wide art impact, SAMA increased access to art in Black and Latine communities.

Participants enjoy the drumming sounds of a Soro Bindi workshop. Courtesy of the Mattatuck Museum, 2021.
  • Learning & Engagement

Mattatuck Museum Partner Story

Inspired by one hundred years of African American and Black art making, the Mattatuck Museum expands art access to Waterbury’s African American and Black communities.

Rit City Art Space Gonzales-Torres
  • Art Bridges Collection

Rochester Institute of Technology City Art Space Partner Story

Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (LA) inspires the RIT City Art Space to host conversations centering voices from women, queer, and BIPOC communities to challenge normative art historical narratives.

Black Refractions at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
  • Traveling Exhibitions

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Partner Story

In a bold reimagining of permanent collection galleries, works by Black and African American artists create new opportunities for cross-cultural community dialogue at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

not but nothing other at SUNY Binghamton New York
  • Traveling Exhibitions

SUNY Binghamton Partner Story

A university and four lending partners collaborated to create and deeply engage their community in a new exhibition: "not but nothing other: African-American Portrayals, 1930 to Today."

Action Abstraction Redefined programming at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
  • Traveling Exhibitions

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Partner Story

Engaging college audiences and increasing awareness of abstract indigenous artists with the first major traveling exhibition analyzing modern Native American art from the mid-1940s through the 1970s.