Rubin Museum of Art meets Bank Street College (and then some)

 

An article in Bank Street College of Education’s online newsletter was recently published highlighting the many Rubin staff members who are students or alumni from Bank Street. The article can be found at this link.

Just as the programs and divisions at the Rubin Museum of Art are multi-faceted, so is Bank Street.  Consequently, our relationship is multi-faceted, and even more extensive than the article focusing on the Graduate School students and alums indicates.

At the end of April we had the opportunity to facilitate tours for both 11s/12s classes in the Bank Street School for Children (SFC) who came in conjunction with their year-long World Religions curriculum. These tours were organized by a Bank Street SFC teacher who also graduated from the Museum Education program and did her fieldwork here at the museum shortly after the museum opened! And that very same teacher was the co-teacher in the room next door when I did my student teaching fieldwork at the Bank Street SFC in 2006.

Almost every spring semester since the museum opened there has been a Bank Street Museum Education Intern in the School Programs department (our current Bank Street Intern, Ashley, posted on this blog just a few weeks ago).  At the end of this month a group of Bank Street College Advisors will be coming to the museum for a visit. Just a few weeks after that the summer camp will be sending groups to the museum to explore pilgrimage in conjunction with our exciting summer exhibition and participate in arts workshops in our new Education Center.

Beyond this institutional relationship, I am surprised daily by the ways that the experiences I had and relationships I developed with my peers at Bank Street as a graduate student continue to impact my career and contribute to my work. Likewise, my personal experience as a young student at Stanley British Primary School in Denver, Colorado is very closely linked to my Bank Street experience and my professional perspectives and practices.

From the Bank Street website, I leave you with a quote from the founder, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, that I think relates well to what we strive to do in our work at the Rubin Museum of Art:

“Lively intellectual curiosities turn the world into an exciting laboratory and keep one ever a learner.”

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