Museum Education
Thursday, August 6, 12:00PM EST
Join staff from the Education Department at the Guggenheim Museum for a conversation about how their work in a time of crisis has embraced technology in order to continue serving audiences. Cyra Levenson, Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education and Public Engagement, Sharon Vatsky, Director, Audience Engagement, and Jennifer Yee, Associate Director, Public Programs will share their recent experiences fostering dialog and connection for audiences online, and discuss steps the department is making towards their goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Cyra Levenson is responsible for the development and implementation of learning and engagement opportunities for modern and contemporary art and architecture at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and has a significant role in partnering across the foundation’s international network. She came to the Guggenheim Museum from the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she was Deputy Director and Head of Public and Academic Engagement.
Sharon Vatsky, for the past 20 years, has supervised programming for youth audiences at the Guggenheim Museum. She currently oversees audience engagement, including internships, access programs and initiatives with the museum’s global constellation. From 1990 – 2000 she served as Curator of Education at the Queens Museum of Art. In that position she formulated programming for dozens of exhibitions of modern and contemporary art for audiences of all ages. Vatsky teaches graduate courses in Museum Education at New York University and Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She is the author of Museum Gallery Experiences: A Handbook, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) for the American Alliance of Museums.
Jennifer Yee is Associate Director, Public Programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum where she works closely with colleagues to organize, design, and produce engaging discursive programs, film screenings, and performances for the museum public.