MAM in the Neighborhood
The free MAM in the Neighborhood program consists of:
- Site-visits to a wide range ofcommunity
centers throughout Miami-Dade County by MAM’s outreach
coordinator and trained gallery teachers.
- Museum visits focusing
on exhibition tours led by gallery teachers.
- MAM Funpacks All young people participating
in MAM in the Neighborhood receive a Funpack filled with art
supplies and activities that encourage them to use the exhibition
as a springboard for creating their own artwork.
- Post-visit activities to
be conducted by community organization staff using supplies
provided by MAM.
For more information on how your group can participate in MAM
in the Neighborhood 2006 call the Education Office at 305.375.4073.
Previous MAM in the Neighborhood Programs
MAM in the Neighborhood 2006
The exhibition Big Juicy Paintings (and more) provided the MAM in
the Neighborhood theme for 2006 -- with more than 3,600 participants. Once
again, fun art activities were conducted by MAM education staff at sites county-wide
and interactive tours took place in the museum galleries. Camp staff continued
to utilize free group art supplies provided, and campers took home individual
art-kits useful for school this fall.
MAM in the Neigborhood 2005
MAM Staff visited parks and community centers with materials to create interpretations
of the human form. The program was conducted with the aim of communicating
and reinforcing the power of individual identity and fostering a group reflection
of our diverse community. At MAM, children experienced the exhibition Figuratively
Speaking: Selections from the Permanent Collection, guided by our Gallery
Teachers.
MAM in the Neighborhood 2004
MAM collaborated with local organizations including
the Miami-Dade County Park and Recreation Department’s
summer camps, the Boys and Girls Clubs and the YWCA/YMCA to provide
free art education programming for more than 4,500 participants.
This year the program was developed around MAM’s presentation
of Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration- a
major traveling exhibition recently shown at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
MAM in the Neighborhood 2004 was supported by MAM’s Annual
Education Fund with a lead grant from The Heckscher Foundation
for Children.
MAM in the Neighborhood 2003
After two successful summer programs, MAM in the Neighborhood significantly
expanded the program in 2003. With a lead grant from the Heckscher Foundation
for Children, MAM was able to expand this program in summer 2003 and reached
more than 3,500 young people throughout Miami-Dade County.
MAM in the Neighborhood 2002
In summer 2002, MAM worked for six weeks with twenty high school students from
Booker T. Washington High School to produce a 20-minute video about the Overtown
section of Miami where they live. The video premiered on February 23, 2003,
at the historic Lyric Theater in the heart of Overtown to an enthusiastic
response, later receiving awards from the Wolfson Film and Media Archives
and the Miami Children’s Film Festival.
In addition to support from the private sector, both 2001 and
2002 projects were funded in part by the Empowerment Zone Trust,
which supports activities designed to improve conditions in Miami's
Federal Empowerment Zone, located just north and west of the
museum.
MAM in the Neighborhood 2001
MAM in the Neighborhood was launched as an experimental project in summer 2001.
Forty children from Miami's East Little Havana neighborhood spent eight weeks
planning and executing a mural for a wall in East Little Havana.
MAM Art Caravan
MAM Art Caravan, supported by Bank of America,
builds on the success of the museum’s Second Saturdays are
Free for Families and MAM in the Neighborhood programs. This program
brings monthly interactive family art workshops to community centers
throughout Miami-Dade County, significantly expanding MAM’s
contribution to underserved audiences. The museum offers the MAM
Art Caravan program at community centers throughout the Miami-Dade
area on the fourth Saturday of every month during the school year,
except November and December.
For additional information about MAM Art Caravan, please call
MAM’s Education Office at 305-375-4073.
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