The Walters partners with the BCCC's Refugee Youth Project. The Walters makes use of RYP's existing after-school program and well placed structure to coordinate monthly visits to the museum. RYP coordinates the organization of busing, chaperoning, and gathering the children and the Walters uses its full and part-time staff, facilities, and art materials to provide art activities and gallery experiences. This years addition of a third partner - the Maryland Institute College of Art has provided an Americorps volunteer who serves as a liason between the WAM and RYP. Additionally, the Americorp volunteer ensures that the museum visits are in line with the lessons that the students recieve at their various afterschool sites.
We partner with several community organizations. Most initial contacts were made as a result of personal friendships or through networking. Our partners supply the space where the programs happen (outside of the museum, at their sites), some supplies (scissors, markers, glue), and in a couple of places actual storage for our supplies (so that we don't have to bring things back and forth for multiple visits). Two sites provide free parking (in areas where there is no free parking;-) and a few sites feed us (when we are there over lunch time).
The Corcoran partners with community-based organizations such as visual art centers and churches to introduce young people to the Gallery’s collections through ongoing after-school and summer classes. Our three partner centers, the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC), The Sitar Arts Center and St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church vary in the way they operate, but they all provide a safe building, supportive staff who value the arts, designated classroom space and a ‘partner contact’ to keep communication open. They are selected based on shared missions, their locations (within economically disadvantaged neighborhoods), and mutually beneficial goals.
The most unique partnership we have experienced is at THEARC which is home to 9 resident organizations including The Washington Ballet and the Levine School of Music. We've been fortunate to participate in collaborative programs together including an annual Arts Festival and summer camps.
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The Walters partners with the BCCC's Refugee Youth Project. The Walters makes use of RYP's existing after-school program and well placed structure to coordinate monthly visits to the museum. RYP coordinates the organization of busing, chaperoning, and gathering the children and the Walters uses its full and part-time staff, facilities, and art materials to provide art activities and gallery experiences. This years addition of a third partner - the Maryland Institute College of Art has provided an Americorps volunteer who serves as a liason between the WAM and RYP. Additionally, the Americorp volunteer ensures that the museum visits are in line with the lessons that the students recieve at their various afterschool sites.
We partner with several community organizations. Most initial contacts were made as a result of personal friendships or through networking.
Our partners supply the space where the programs happen (outside of the museum, at their sites), some supplies (scissors, markers, glue), and in a couple of places actual storage for our supplies (so that we don't have to bring things back and forth for multiple visits). Two sites provide free parking (in areas where there is no free parking;-) and a few sites feed us (when we are there over lunch time).
The Corcoran partners with community-based organizations such as visual art centers and churches to introduce young people to the Gallery’s collections through ongoing after-school and summer classes. Our three partner centers, the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC), The Sitar Arts Center and St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church vary in the way they operate, but they all provide a safe building, supportive staff who value the arts, designated classroom space and a ‘partner contact’ to keep communication open. They are selected based on shared missions, their locations (within economically disadvantaged neighborhoods), and mutually beneficial goals.
The most unique partnership we have experienced is at THEARC which is home to 9 resident organizations including The Washington Ballet and the Levine School of Music. We've been fortunate to participate in collaborative programs together including an annual Arts Festival and summer camps.
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