The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 29, no. 1 (Spring 2003)
Edited by Gregory Nosan
This special issue explores the broad history and practice of art education at the Art Institute, charting the museum’s past, present, and future vision of what museums education can be and do. Drawing from a rich trove of archival, oral, and photographic resources, authors offer a lively account of museum education as an evolving profession, an outlet for aesthetic and political ideas, and a crucial element of the Art Institute’s public mission. The project, sponsored by the Woman’s Board of The Art Institute of Chicago to commemorate its fiftieth anniversary, also explores the museum’s educational efforts as a focus of volunteer commitment, particularly since the 1950s. A pioneering effort, this publication constitutes an important, unique contribution to the history of education in American cultural institutions.
Awarded: Honorable Mention, AAM Publications Design Competition
Articles in this publication:
Danielle Rice, “Balancing Act: Education and the Competing Impulses of Museum Work”
Sylvia Rhor, “Every Walk of Life and Every Degree of Education: Museum Instruction at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1879–1955”
Gregory Nosan, “Women in the Galleries: Prestige, Education, and Volunteerism at Mid-Century”
Robert Eskridge, “Museum Education at the Art Institute, 1980–2003: Expansion, Diversity, Continuity”
96 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780865592025
ISBN-10: 0865592020
