Empower Your Child as a Docent in an Art Museum

Edgar Degas famous sculpture titled Little Dancer Aged Fourteen featured at the National Gallery of Art. What would your child have to say about this sculpture as your personal docent? Photo Credit: Lindsay Guarnieri While researching how art museums can engage...

How an Art Museum Can Empower BIPOC Girls to Enact Change

Allan Roche Crite’s painting titled School’s Out featured in Experience America exhibit at SAAM. The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is one of the most misunderstood art museums in the DC area for its attachment to the National Portrait Gallery. The...

Museums Engaging the Little Artists of the World

Washington DC, is known for being home to the most museums within the Smithsonian Institution. Most people see the Smithsonian museums as the Natural History Museum, the National Zoo, and the National Air and Space Museum. However, the Smithsonian has many art museums...

How Art Museums Can Engage the Future Female Artists

As an avid visitor of art museums, I find that most visitors who come to art museums are adults-only groups or adults with older children. When researching this article, I found that much of the internet views art museums as less child-friendly. I find this surprising...

Why Art Museums Are Important Spaces For the Young Girls

According to researchers, female artists make up about 13% of the artists featured in art museums (Braz, Camberg, Ellis 2022). This number was not surprising to me. In Washington, D.C., the National Women in the Arts Museum is dedicated to featuring female artists who...

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