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44 P R O G R A M S Artist Leonardo Drew in front of his sculpture Untitled #45 mesmerizing a group of young visitors The Museum’s public programs and education services provide a wealth of learning experiences intended to engage and inspire our visitors. Our schedule of public programs featured an especially interesting array of lectures, performances, and films in 2003 and 2004. Special highlights included sold-out lectures by author Roy Blount Jr., art historian Sister Wendy Beckett, and former Louvre Director Pierre Rosenberg, and presentations by contemporary artists Richard Serra, Roxy Paine, Leonardo Drew, and Carrie Mae Weems. Performances by such notable musicians as Ustad Imrat Khan, Trio Solisti, Anonymous 4, and Christine Brewer filled the Auditorium to enthusiastic capacity and received critical acclaim. Art in Bloom, now a highly anticipated annual spring event, brought beautiful floral interpretations to the galleries and welcomed more than 10,000 visitors to the Museum in each of the two years. Beyond our walls, the Museum collaborated on programs with other cultural institutions in the area, including the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Saint Louis Symphony, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, and the Webster Film Series. In January 2003 we inaugurated weekly Sunday Family Programs, which now regularly serve more than 150 participants. Three new family guides, all sponsored
y Target Stores—Arms and Armor, Faces, and Egyptian Mummies—were created to enhance the experience of families as they enjoy those areas of the collection. By offering more flexible arts education opportunities to area teachers and students we were able to expand our elementary school programs by 20 percent. Our school-based initiatives beyond the classroom featured the Voyage of Learning Teaching Academy, a collaboration with Forest Park Forever; the International Education Consortium Cooperative, a collaboration with the St. Louis Public Schools; and resources for area educators that feature interdisciplinary learning opportunities for public and private school educators including a regular series of workshops, open houses, and a summer institute all targeted to connecting the collection to state teaching standards. The Museum’s outreach to new audiences was successfully furthered through community programs such as Rites of Passage, Youth SmART, St. Louis Artworks, and Art with Us, as well as the annual Kwanzaa celebration and a collaboration with the African Arts Festival. An important aspect of our educational services is to ensure that the works of art in the Museum’s galleries are presented with information that is accessible to everyone. In the last two years over 100 new wall texts Pierre Rosenberg, former director of the Louvre Museum in Paris, in the European art galleries with Museum docents and almost 2,200 labels were written to help our visitors appreciate and learn about the art they see. Special attention was given to the newly opened African, American, and arms and armor galleries, as well as to the featured exhibitions throughout the building. Audio tours prepared for the exhibitions Art of the Osage and Painted Prayers were especially informative, and the video created for Art of the Osage was a fitting collaboration with the Osage Tribal Museum. The Museum’s Richardson Memorial Library and Resource Center joined forces to better increase their offerings to the community. Partnering with the St. Louis Public Library system, cooperating school districts, and Laumeier Sculpture Park, we were able to expand distribution of our teaching materials to area educators, resulting in a fourfold increase in circulation. The Saint Louis Research Libraries Consortium (SLRLC), a new online partnership between the Art Museum, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Missouri Historical Society funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, gives users access to the resources of all three institutions from the internet. 45
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