The Walker/additional MoMA info

Walker Art Center (WACTAC)
Minneapolis, MN
http://teens.walkerart.org/

General Education Programming: families, adults, educators, schools, teens

Teen-Specific Programs: mission to connect teens to contemporary art/artists; first art museum in the country to devote full-time staff to working with and building teen audiences; WACTAC (Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council) includes $60/month stipend; internships; exhibition opportunities for teens (film showcases, poetry slams, hip-hop battles, e.g. Girls in the Director’s Chair, Hot Art Injection, Below the Belt: (series of competitive battles in different performing art disciplines); teen workshops led by reputable artists; website includes incredible archive of past innovative programs including a 24-hr art-making marathon

Technology: fun teen website with colorful layout; features WACTAC alumni, Teen Program How-To Kit for educators (fantastic resource with tools and advice for working with teens, including how to start a Teen Arts Council)

Social Networks: Vimeo; amazing collection of blogs for teens with great interaction; Twitter; RSS feed; Facebook (500+fans), YouTube


Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
http://www.moma.org/learn/programs/teens
http://redstudio.moma.org/

General Education Programming: adults, k-12, teachers, community outreach, families, accessible programs, scholars, teens

Teen-Specific Programs: all free; Teen Voices Project: their teen council; collaborate with artist to create work to be presented at MoMA and throughout NYC, also educate visitors and give voice to teens; Art and Science of Conservation; Museum Studies; High School Summer Internship; In the Making (art-making courses); Free Teen Nights (drop-in; movies, artist talks art-making, tours; pizza)

Technology: Moma Teen Audio (podcasts via acoustaguide developed and narrated by teens about 5-6 specific works; developed annually; teens work in pairs and each pair is responsible for an object; fun music, sound effects, interviews with security guards, curators, etc.); Red Studio (website developed in collaboration with high school to explore issues and questions raised by teens about modern art; phasing out Red Studio incredible forum for teens to debate and discuss; attracts very repuatble artists; site features filmed interviews conducted by teens; within the next year will start new teen website that was developed by the Teens Voices Project from scratch by teens (format will be like Pandora)

Social Networks: at one point had every kind of social network which was hard to maintain; in past months tried to streamline and focus on Facebook (500+ friends), MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter (encourage discussion with prompts such as “what creative thing will you do this weekend?” or "What's your all time favorite work of art???”); coordinator says that social network pages are difficult to maintain but daily maintenance is imperative to keep teens involved; has seen an increase in interaction when updates are made frequently; want the "voice" to be coming from the teens; each In The Making class has its own blog as an extended learning tool available only to those classes (new to the program--momalearning.org/teens)

Demographics: strive for diversity; advertise to all schools (public, charter, private, etc.), all boroughs; choose all highschool grades; even gender split

Comments: Red Studio website is separate from the Teen Programs webpage on the main site--why can't Red Studio be the teen page on the museum site?; spoke with Marit Dewhurst, Associate Educator, Teen Programs