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Kitsap Military Family Resource Document
(2023-06)For anyone who is a part of the U.S. Armed Forces they know how difficult this unique lifestyle can be, whether they are the service member or the child of one. Many of the issues that military families face on a daily ... -
Understanding museum development of public climate justice action
(2023-06)When it comes to climate change, museum practitioners and scholars agree that the potential to activate change is through public climate action. At the same time, the museum field is rethinking museums’ role in the climate ... -
Making Storytime Mindful: A Toolkit
(2023-06)Museums have a proven track record of promoting early childhood learning. Yet, learning is not a child’s only need. Research shows that children are developing anxiety and depression at higher rates than in years past. ... -
Burke Museum on Twitch: Bringing Behind the Scenes to Guests at Home
(2023-06)There are many existing virtual engagement tools that museums do not make use of. The Covid-19 pandemic illuminated museums' needs for engaging virtual tools for folks that could not come into the physical space. This ... -
PaperSpace:An Experience To Take Home
(2023-06)The purpose of this project was to create a pop-up paper arts-based makerspace that encourages the learning of new skills in a communal setting. The makerspace entitled “PaperSpace: An Experience to Take Home” focused on ... -
Applying the Junior Ranger Model: Conservation Education in Zoos
(2023-06)While zoos look for new ways to expand and improve on their conservation education, National and State Parks systems utilize Junior Ranger programs to create lasting, impactful conservation education on children and their ... -
Building Memory Lane: A Guidebook to Caring For, Growing, Recording, and Experiencing the History You are a Part of
(2023-06)Family and community history are crucial to developing personal identity–and yet, many people still know just bits and pieces of these histories. People often don’t recognize that our lives are a part of history as it is ... -
Project SALINE: Enhancing Collaborative Learning Between Institutions Through the Power of Human Connection
(2023-06)Connected learning ecologies can amplify learning outcomes for museums, visitors, and communities. A learning ecology is a physical, social, and cultural context where learning occurs. Ecological approaches to learning ... -
Indigenous Curation in White Spaces
(2023-06)For this project, I curated a month-long exhibition that showcased 3 Indigenous artists. I used Indigenous curation methods to show that Indigenous and Western curation can be used in the same spaces and there isn’t a right ... -
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and well-being of museum volunteers
(2023-06)The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and multidimensional impact on museums in the United States, but there has been little research into the perspectives of volunteers during this crisis, and less into the impacts it ... -
Museums as neighborhood living rooms: Investigating feelings of belonging through "highly accessible and permeable" museum spaces
(2023-06)As institutions that have often been and continue to be sites of systemic social exclusion, museums are exploring how their design and architecture might be reinterpreted to lead to wider accessibility and greater social ... -
Archive Digitization and a Context-Based Database
(2023-06)The Burke Museum of Natural History’s Herbarium contains 700,000 specimens of plants, fungi, and algae, as well as their associated collection and taxonomic notes. The main interface for the public to learn about these ... -
Toolkit: Accessible Activity Instructions for Those with Cognitive Disabilities
(2023-06)Accessibility is an essential piece in making museums more welcoming to all who visit. Having accommodations are helpful for those that use or need them but accessibility benefits everyone. It can be overwhelming for museum ... -
Art in Situ: Exploring Art in Public Places
(2023-06)The Washington State Art Collection’s Art in Public Places program (AIPP) acquires and cares for artworks throughout state buildings, colleges, universities, and schools where people study, work, and live. UW Seattle is ... -
Queer Capitol Hill: a Historic Walking Tour
(2023-06)Queer Capitol Hill: a Historic Walking Tour is a project composed of a one-hour in-person walking tour and an interactive online map adaptation featuring photographs and details about the history that is hidden all around ... -
What Do We Have Here: Artifact ID Services at Museums
(2023-06)This study examines the attitudes of staff and participants towards in-person and virtual artifact identification services in the greater Seattle area. Answers from five semi-structured interviews highlight some of the ... -
Breathing across, A Traveling Exhibition Proposal for Breathing in a Time of Disaster
(2023-06)"Breathing across" is a traveling exhibition proposal based on the project "Breathing in a Time of Disaster" (BITD), curated in collaboration with Ching-In Chen. Two previous BITD iterations, Houston (2019), and Seattle ... -
A Journey Through Latin America
(2023-06)‘A Journey Through Latin America' explores the needs of Hispanic families in King County and visitors of the Burke Museum with the addition of the impact of creating a bilingual museum guide. As the Latino population ... -
Collecting Queer: Exploring Museum Queering at the Burke Museum Collections
(2023-06)The use of women, gender, and sexuality studies as a way to understand museums is a very new perspective for the field. This process—most often called “museum queering”—produced its first monograph in 2020 with Sullivan ... -
Teen Takeover: Balancing Rules and Joyful Chaos for Teens in Rural Art Museums
(2023-06)Teen Takeover is a project that aspired to cultivate teen belonging in a rural art museum. This project consisted of a space-making program, shifting the context of gallery visits, and observing the impacts of these practices ...
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