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decade I started as a volunteer in 2009

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and came on to the Education team in

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2010 my very first shift at the AGA was

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the day we opened the new building

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and and I worked as an educator for two

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years and then following that I

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kind of made my way into management and

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I’ve been head of education and learning

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ever since

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then in the next few years what I would

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like to see is our an increased capacity

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in our language programming so this is

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something that we have been talking

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about for a long time but I would really

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like to push that forward in the next

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little while

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um Community engagement and community

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outreach is really important for the AGA

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it’s something that’s in our strategic

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plan and it’s something that um I hold

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dear to my heart in terms of where I see

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museums having relevancy and I think

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it’s really important for us to really

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engage with our community in a in a deep

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way

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with the supportive donors we’ve been

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able to do some pretty incredible things

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we’ve been able to implement a youth

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Council we’ve been able to offer

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teammates for for youth we’ve been able

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to

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um offer free programming for families

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we’ve been able to do all sorts of a

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myriad of of opportunities and I think

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without that support we just can’t do

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what we do so having having sort of that

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support taken care of allows us to do

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the work that we are driven and

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passionate about and and need to do in

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order to ensure that kids have a really

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great experience here

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well I overheard in a gallery someone

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mentioned that um that they were so

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grateful for the art classes not only as

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a space for their kids to go like I

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think this was in reference to a art

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camp

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um but just how nice it was to be able

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to drop off their kids and know that you

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know that they were being creative and

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that they were in a safe environment

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um and we’re also really impressed by

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the kind of work that their children

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could generate we are really focused on

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building skills in the process of making

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art but it really

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we really put the onus on the kids to

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create what they want to create so we’re

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not predetermining what their project

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looks like per se we’re just giving them

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the skills to execute on it

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okay who should take art classes

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everybody

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is an artist and everyone can unlock

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their creativity and I think art classes

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and the art activities that we support

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through our programming give people an

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opportunity to practice their creativity

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and to um

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you know

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appreciate their creativity I think you

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know when you’re

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when you’re at some point when you’re a

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kid like you’re really creative and

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you’re not very self-conscious about it

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but at some point we get self-conscious

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about our creativity

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um and taking an art class can can shake

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you up out of that and help you to get

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back to that really beautiful moment

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