Meeting Students Where They Are: Expanded Approaches to Cultural Education at the Burke Museum

FAIN: ZED-283488-22

Burke Museum Association (Seattle, WA 98195-3010)
Alvin K Logan (Project Director: May 2021 to March 2025)

The development of K-12 educational materials and programming on Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.

In response to COVID, in support of its educational mission, and in alignment with the institutional goal of decolonization, the Burke Museum seeks NEH funding to support the restoration of Education staffing for the 2021-22 academic year, in order to meet the anticipated increase in demand for virtual and onsite cultural education services, through field trips, self-guided Youth & Family Programs, the BurkeMobile, and Burke Boxes. As part of a recent revamp of all education programs, the Burke worked with its Tribal partners to create a slate of offerings that returns voice and authority to Native communities, while also breathing new life and excitement into object-based learning at the Burke. An NEH grant will significantly strengthen our ability to get these ways of seeing and understanding Native American history, art, and culture to more WA students, using a range of delivery methods that work with and around limitations imposed by COVID-19.