| 9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcome by University Chancellor Richard Herman and Introduction to the conference by Jonathan Fineberg |
| 9:15 - 9:45 |
Otabenga Jones & Associates (represented by Robert Pruitt and Jamal Cyrus) and Josef Helfenstein, Director of the Menil Collection will talk about their radical classroom in the Menil Collection |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Jacques Rancière, University of Paris, “Emancipation in the Museum?” |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Howard Singerman, University of Virginia “A Short History of Museum Education” |
| 12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch break |
| 1:45 - 3:00 |
Three Museum Educators will use the Krannert’s painting by Stuart Davis General Studies, 1962, as a focal point to discuss their methods for interacting with the public with respect to works of art |
| 1:45 - 2:00 |
Adam Lerner, Director, The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Lakewood, CO |
| 2:00 - 2:15 |
Suzanne Wright, Director of Education, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
| 2:15 - 2:30 |
David Henry, Director of Education, The Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston |
| 2:30 - 3:00 |
Discussant: Jennifer Burns |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Panel discussion of artists and curators about what kind of pedagogy they would like to see in the museum. The panel includes artists Conrad Bakker, Jamal Cyrus, Robert Pruitt, and Buzz Spector and curators Manuel Borja (Artistic Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid) who will moderate the panel, Josef Helfenstein, Eik Kahng (Curator and Head of the Department of 18th- and 19th-century Art at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore), and Elizabeth Turner (Professor of Art History & Vice Provost for the Arts, University of Virginia, and former Senior Curator, The Phillips Collection) |
| 4:30 - 6:00 |
General discussion among all participants followed by discussion from the floor |