1. Docent Training
April 25, 2012
Jane Winchell
The Sarah Fraser Robbins Director
Art & Nature Center
Meg Winikates
Art & Nature Program Specialist
Lisa Incatasciato
Family Programs Coordinator

2. What’s Up in the Art & Nature Center?
O Ripple Effect + ongoing ANC displays
O Close on July 8, 2012
O Interim ANC
O Open from mid/late July 2012 — spring
2013
O New ANC + “Artist—Animal
Collaborations”
O A-A open from June 2013 — March 2014

3. Interim ANC
O “Greatest Hits” model
O Sampling from ongoing displays
O Select objects
O Hands-on drawers
O Favorite interactives
O Books and Boxes Zone
O Drop-in Activities
O Prototyping station

4. New Art & Nature Center
O Same footprint — new design
O Separate, adjoined exhibition areas
O Ongoing displays
O Changing exhibitions
O 9 month run times
O Art studios
O 2 studios
O Moveable divider wall
O Adjacent large storage room

5. “Artist-Animal Collaborations”
(working title)
O Summary: creative outcomes of artists working
collaboratively with live animals.

6. Art Carts at PEM
Prototyping July 201 — April 2013

7. Goals
O Serve all ages
O “Activate” galleries
O Visitor directed (but facilitated)
O Multi-sensory experiences
O Promote deeper connections
O Foster social interaction
O Focus on key objects and processes

8. Touchable Objects
O Art materials
O Replicas
O Props
O Tools
O Multi-sensory options

9. Art Activity Ideas
O Sketching
O Rubbings, embossing,
stamping, paper-craft
O Alternate materials:
weaving, mosaics,
blocks

10. Gallery Extension Ideas
O Costumes
O Puppets
O Stories
O Inquiry Cards/Games
O Puzzles

11. Media Interactives
O iPads with video and audio files
O Contextualize objects
O Show art processes

12. Proposed Galleries for
Prototyping
O Japanese Art
O American Art (Seamans Gallery)
O EIMH, interim Native American Gallery
O Maritime Art (Putnam)

13. We Need Your Help!
O What objects or galleries
provoke lots of
questions?
O Which questions could a
cart interactive help
answer?
O What props or tools might
help interpret these
objects/galleries?