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When Academic Museums Teach 21st Century SkillsKatie Lee-Koven, Executive Director & Chief Curator, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of ArtJill Hartz, Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of OregonHeather Lineberry, Senior Curator and Associate Director, Arizona State University Art Museum

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Tride and True Academic Museum Programs That Teach 21st Century Skills-Guest Curated Exhibitions by Faculty or University Classes

-Student Advisory Groups taking lead on outreach programs

-Internships

-Cross Disciplinary Exhibitions and Programs

21st Century Skills: Problem solving - Creativity - Analytic thinking - Collaboration - Communication - Ethics, action, and accountability

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Museum + Music SeriesConnecting the Visual with the AuralKatie Lee-KovenExecutive Director & Chief Curator

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Questions we asked when developing the Museum + Music Seres:How do we get new audience members?

When should we schedule this series?

How many events should there be in this series?

Whats the budget?

How do we connect with our academic mandate?Structure: Three Concerts each semesterAlways One Student Performance1-2 Guest PerformancesOne Faculty Performance

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How does this series prepare students with 21st century skills?Problem solving - Creativity - Analytic thinking - CollaborationCommunication - Ethics, action, and accountability

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Agnes PeltonThis may have been better as a concert later once people knew what to expect. Too esoteric and too contemporary performance basedENCHANTED MODERNITIES:Mysticism, Landscape & the American West

Where it Started

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Christine Odlund

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: Shaping Craft & Design exhibition

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Crafting Silence: The Music of John Cage

Second Year of Museum + Music: Indigenous Expressions

Abstraction and the Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Painting from the Western Desert

Maria Martinez and Julian Martinez, Plate, Santa Clara,ca. 1936,earthenware 13 in. diameter.Gift of Rachael Dunaven Yocomand Gertrude Shurr.Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1969-70, acrylic on plexiglass disc , 48 inch diameter, Mari Eccles Caine Ffoundation GiftTranscendence: Abstraction & Symbolism in the American West

Alaska Before US: The Music of the Russian Orthodox Church and John Luther Adams

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Songs from the Great Basin with Arnold Thomas

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Karaoke Kitsch: This is Your Band in conjunction with symposium and exhibition A Matter of Taste: Art, Kitsch, and Culture

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Whats Next?Students are researching collection through the lense of Manifest Destiny, pairing a music composition and artworks in the collection. The concert will be the result of highlighting a few of these selections of art and music with the students performing the music.