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Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Docent/Curator Program
- Experience the Museum world
- Design your own exhibit
- Community service hours
- $500 scholarship
NAAM WANTS YOU
If You Are:
grade 10 to 12, interested in Museums
available for 12 - 2hr sessions January-March 2010
PRINT APPLICATION HERE
DEADLINE EXTENDED: November 30th, 2009
For additional information please email:
The Youth Docent/Curator Program at the Northwest African American Museum is designed to introduce youth to the history, philosophy and practices of museum work. As docents, the participants guide visitors and tour groups through the galleries, telling the story of the collections and exhibits. As curators, they have the opportunity to design and mount their own exhibit. NAAM provides this experience to engage the community and provide a venue for youth to express their accomplishments, passions, hopes and concerns.
The 2010 Youth Docent/Curator Program is themed to coincide with the Museum’s Northwest Gallery exhibit “East by Northwest”. The exhibit explores the migration of East Africans to the Pacific Northwest. NAAM will accept eight students to participate in the 2010 Youth Docent/Curator Program. As the weeks progress, the students discuss the importance for documenting the life stories of everyday people, how the stories help us to evaluate the past and potentially influence our future and why museums are committed to archiving oral histories. Given a migration theme, students will be asked to conduct an oral interview. They then work with Museum staff, using design basics, to create an exhibit that interprets their interview. Students will guide tours of their exhibits.
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