1. Multicultural
Audience
Development
Initiative
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

2. The Museum: Brief History
1870
Present

3. MADI
Mission Statement
The goals of the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative
are:
• increase awareness of our global collections
• create relationships with diverse communities in New York
• diversify visitorship and membership
• increase participation in programs and activities

4. MADI
Advisory Committee

5. MADI
Collaborations
Arts Organizations
Trustees, Staff, and Departments
Multicultural
Organizations

6. MADI
Involvement with Communities

7. MADI
Involvement with Communities

8. MADI
Media Outreach
Communicating with all communities in New York

9. MADI
A Luncheon with President Clinton
January 11, 2010

10. MADI
LGBT Post Pride Party
July 22, 2013

11. MADI
Women of the Nile
Goddesses, Queens, and a Pharaoh
January 23, 2013

12. MADI
¡Fiesta! Celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Culture
October 5, 2013

13. MADI
¡Fiesta! Celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Culture
October 5, 2013

14. MADI
African American Heritage
The Boy’s Choir of Harlem & Cicely Tyson School of the Performing Arts

15. MADI
The Dream @ 50 Art Contest
Awards Ceremony
January 26, 2013

16. MADI
Native American Heritage
Opening of the Native American Galleries

17. MADI
Diwali Performance

18. MADI
Veterans Day Breakfast
November 13, 2012

19. MADI
Lunar New Year
February 7, 2010 and February 4 – 8, 2011

20. MADI
Lunar New Year
February 4, 2012

21. MADI
Lunar New Year Reception
February 20, 2013

22. MADI
Women’s History Month Celebration

23. MADI and Government Affairs
Women’s History Month
March 27, 2013
Former Member of Congress Elizabeth Holtzman,
NOW-NYC President Sonia Ossorio,
State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins,
and Congress Member Carolyn Maloney

24. MADI
Staff Cultural Awareness Information Session for
the New Galleries for the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,
Central Asia, and Later South Asia
October 18, 2011

25. MADI
Qatar Museums Authority Professional Workshop
June 2012

26. Awards
Cross Cultural Engagement
Award from the Muslim
Consultative Network
June 10, 2012
Exceptional Dedication and
Service Award from Nation
To Nation Networking
October 3, 2012

27. MADI
Senses of Springtime Festival
April 28, 2013

28. MADI
Senses of Springtime Festival
April 28, 2013

29. MADI
Glam4Good Event with PUNK: Chaos to Couture
July 26, 2013

30. MADI
2011 Multicultural Gala

31. MADI
2011 Multicultural Gala

32. MADI
Cultivation Event with PUNK: Chaos to Couture
May 21, 2013

33. MADI
Multicultural Gala
September 23, 2013

34. MADI
Multicultural Gala
September 23, 2013

35. MADI
Multicultural Gala
September 23, 2013

36. Spectrum
Spectrum Presents Oktoberfest at the Cloisters
September 28, 2013

37. Spectrum
Spectrum Celebrates Breaking the Color in Major League
Baseball and the Museum’s Jefferson Burdick Collection
April 13, 2012

38. College Group at the Met
Making the Met accessible and popular to the next generation of college students

39. College Group
College Group at the Met

40. College Group

41. College Group
Poetry Readings: Matisse
March 1, 2013

42. College Group
Elegance at the Met
April 4, 2013

43. MADI
Mentoring Program For College Juniors
Encouraging students from underrepresented communities
to pursue museum careers

44. MADI Upcoming Events
• November 10, 2013: Diwali performance
• November 13, 2013: Veterans Day Breakfast
• November 15, 2013: CGM reception and viewing of
Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom
• December 6, 2013: CGM workshop for Jewels by JAR
• January 2014: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
• March 2014: Women’s History Month Viewing and Reception