Co-creation in the Classroom: Educational Resource and Curriculum Development for Arts and Humanities Exhibition: 'A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration'

FAIN: ZED-284275-22

Mississippi Museum of Art, Inc. (Jackson, MS 39215-1330)
Elizabeth Williams (Project Director: May 2021 to November 2021)
Merry Barnes (Project Director: November 2021 to September 2023)

The creation of teaching materials on the Great Migration drawing on the collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art, including a workshop for teachers; retention of four jobs and creation of seven student fellowships.

Based on lessons learned from COVID-19, the Mississippi Museum of Art will re-engage educators, schools, and institutions of higher learning by creating resources that tie the underlying humanities and arts content of upcoming exhibition, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, AND the artistic and research processes, to work in the classroom. Project activities include the production of a critical reader and higher education course work – culminating in the National Summer Teacher Institute, an intensive week of curriculum co-creation where educators will investigate exhibition themes with local and national experts, engage with innovative pedagogical theory, and focus on developing strategies to embed primary sources and narrative storytelling into lesson plans and classrooms.