Well, I hope you guys are doing better than I did finding applicable examples. Thanks so much for The South! :)
Actually, I was surprised to find that the following museums either had no teen programs, no meaningful web presence (including no web 2.0 presence), or both, since most of these are pretty major museums. I guess this is just an FYI.
New Orleans Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta, Norton Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Museum of Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Tampa Museum of Art, Levine Museum of the New South, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Columbia Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, South Carolina State Museum, Spartanburg Art Museum, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
The four examples that follow are the scanty examples I did find, one of which is not even a museum!
1. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
North Miami, FL
Full range of educational programming: Student Tours; Partnership with public schools: museum studies in schools; Family programs; Summer camp; Preschool parent-child programs; Range of focused outreach with gender-specific teen programs; adult lectures and workshops; Teacher workshops.
Teen Programs: well organized, seemingly well developed. Titles: Women on the Rise! (teen women); Art Corps (teen men); Museum Studies magnet program; Portfolio Drawing Class; Intro to Photo; Junior Docent Boot Camp; Summer Journalism Institute.
Tech: Blog with one intro post from July; otherwise not specified
Social Networks: Facebook (all audiences); Twitter (all audiences); Flickr (huge number of images representing all audiences); youtube (only 2 videos from 1 event)
Strong and focused outreach efforts engaging the local community. Emailed teen programs to inquire about tech usage 10/20.
2. Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, FL
Small scale full range: Student Tours, After-school Art classes for children; family programs; teacher programs; teacher resource center; adult lectures and workshops; 1st Thursdays young professionals social events; parent workshops.
Teen Programs: seemingly non-existent except for "teen podcast." Made by two college students (UCF) intended to appeal to teens. Awkward, poorly produced, guided looking, students are pretending not to understand the exhibition. Teens are much more sophisticated than producers are assuming, more appropriate for 9-12 year olds. I make note of it because excluding teens from the production is misguided, but an audio guide written and produced by teens for teens would have been interesting.
No stated participation in social networks; blog with one intro post.
Speaking with an educator, the Orlando Museum of Art is struggling to see any visitors at the museum and mostly serves school groups.
3. Jacksonville Public Library
Jacksonville, FL
First of all, this is a library, but I include it because the web resources are great. The library has a wide range of programs for all ages.
Teen Programs: Writers groups; Anime Club; Poetry Club; Teen Advisory Board, Groups, Committees; Social programs: games, pizza parties, etc.; Poetry Jams; "Visual Poetry" art contests; web-based programming (see below)
Tech and Social Networking: Myspace-based quarterly drawing contest; "director's chair" youtube video contest; digital art contest; web-based live homework help and "Ask a Librarian"; education and career resources.
Strong and focused outreach efforts engaging the local community. Emailed to inquire about community response to resources offered 10/20.
4. Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV
Narrow programming range: tours, some lectures and few other programs. Outreach programs not listed on website.
Teen programs: Surprising numbers: first (and only) Teen Art night attended by over 300. A facebook page with 983 friends.
Tech and social networking otherwise unspecified. Wrote to Claire Munoz 10/20 to ask to what she attributes the high turnout in both cases.
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