New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum of Contemporary Art will partner with two schools-The Heritage High School, Manhattan, NY and the Garfield High School, Seattle, WA,--to develop new interdisciplinary materials for high school teachers as well as museum educators in presenting the complex subject of race . School educators will work with museum educators to provide a flexible set of resources of visual and media literacy guidelines and curriculum. A resource kit and a dedicated Web site will be developed. The project also includes a series of professional development workshops for teachers. A project ending conference formatted into several sessions will be used to review the project and promote successful aspects