Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio

Museum/theatre operations: museum operations: el museo is open thursday through sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. In addition to exciting exhibitions, educational and public programs and cultural celebrations, it offers visitor amentities such coat check and museum shop. Guest are encouraged to reserve a time ticket in advance and walk-ins are allowed as space permits. Theatre - the historic and beautiful teatro is the only theater of its kind in the upper east side of manhattan. Consisting of a proscenium arch stage with an orchestra pit and seating for 572 guests, it has been acknowledged as a landmark quality interior venue for its remarkable series of 30-foot murals and stained-glass roundels. El teatro is ideal for award shows, lectures, concerts, operas, media events, film/photo shoots, graduations, conferences and more.

The marketing and communications department plays a pivotal role in amplifying el museo del barrio's mission by promoting its exhibitions, education and public programs, and initiatives to our vibrant and diverse community of neighbors, artists, visitors, and supporters. With a strategic emphasis on media relations, advertising, web, digital app, and social media communications, print marketing, the department drives comprehensive outreach efforts to maximize engagement and visibility.in fiscal year 2024, the department spearheaded impactful campaigns that highlighted el museo's free educational initiatives, dynamic public programs, and critically acclaimed exhibitions. Notable highlights included ocama aracoel, a gallery on view as part of the long-term exhibition something beautiful: reframing la coleccin, amalia mesa-bains: archaeology of memory, and cuerpo: carlos martiel. Additionally, the department successfully managed all media inquiries and represented the museum in interviews and public communications, ensuring accurate and compelling representation of its mission and work. Through consistent and engaging updates across el museo's owned channels (website, email newsletters, and social media), the department maintained strong connections with the community, fostering awareness and participation in the museum's offerings.

Off-site partnershipsduring the spring of fy 23, el museo partnered with ps 89q to facilitate afterschool casa programming, and with ps 83m, ps 72m, ps 4m, the bilingual bicultural school (bbms), vanguard high school, and hunter high school to facilitate in-school partnerships. In june, the program series, led by el museo's teaching artists, culminated with end-of-school year celebrations that highlighted students' artworks and accomplishments. Casa (cultural after school adventures) supports extensive, bilingual, and culturally relevant school residency partnerships (12-14 sessions, 2 hours each), enriching the afterschool needs of our partnering schools. Casa partnerships are designed to support and enhance the school's entire learning community, including parents and teachers by using funds for a tailored curriculum and materials, teaching artist fees, visits to el museo, and the installation of art created by students of the program. This program also provides students with the opportunity to deeply explore multiple projects and acquire unconventional/alternative art making and critical thinking skills. El museo's school partnership curriculum is unique in that it is designed around conversations with the teachers and staff of each school, considering their communities and the community around the school, exposing the students to the richness of latinx, caribbean and latin-american art and culture and as a result, the cultural diversity of new york city. El museo's off-site partnership programs served approximately 260 students and teachers in fy 23. On-site education programsguided visits offer individuals of all ages multiple entry points to explore el museo's mission and history, permanent collection, exhibitions, and cultural celebrations, while fostering individual and collective sharing and understanding through inquiry and dialogue. Participants have the opportunity to consider the experiences of communities from puerto rico, latin america, the caribbean and the united states through in-depth explorations of works of art in el museo's exhibitions and permanent collection. A guided visit program typically includes a 60-minute guided tour of el museo's exhibitions led by a museum educator with an option of expanding the program to include a hands-on art-making workshop for a 90 minute program. Storytelling programs are also a part of el museo's guided visits offering. Created for kindergarten 3rd grade learners, storytelling workshops provide a creative and bilingual 90- minute experience, introducing younger learners to the ideas of narrative, culture and art. With a choice of reading "waiting for the biblioburro or "tito puente: mambo king", each storytelling workshop is accompanied with an art making activity directly related to the story. Cultural celebration workshops are an integral part of el museo's group visits program and include festivities like day of the dead, three kings day and extend to include our around the block walking tour program. These three programs are offered during various times throughout the year and introduce visitors of all ages to the diverse traditions celebrated in east harlem, throughout the us, latin america and the caribbean. These special workshops are 90 minute tours and are also led by members of our museum and artist educator team. El museo offers adult tours and workshops: our tours and workshops are tailored to our diverse audience including private groups, community organizations, college students, older adults, and adult language learners. Programs are offered in spanish, english or as bilingual tours. In addition, during fy 23, the education dept began to offer free public tours for visitors on saturdays and sundays. During the 2023 fiscal year the following virtual and in-person guided visits were offered: storytelling waiting for the biblioburro/tito puente: mambo king, honoring our loved ones: cultural celebration workshop: dia de muertos (october-november), three kings: multicultural connections, around the block walking tour, and programs related to the exhibitions: raphael montaez ortiz - a contextual perspective, taller boricua: a political print shop in ny, domesticanx, juan francisco elso: por amrica and something beautiful. A total of 7,173 students, teachers and adults were served during fy 23 through on-site guided programs. In addition, as part of the guided visit program, group training sessions and individualized training sessions were offered throughout the year to the team of museum educators, in conjunction with exhibitions, cultural celebrations and other guided visit programs. Access programs offer unique museum experiences to older adults and individuals with alzheimer's and dementia. During the 2023 fiscal year the following programs were offered: su-casa is a community arts engagement program that places artists and organizations in residence at senior centers across the five boroughs of new york city. The program, funded in fy23 by the new york city council, provides grants to artists and organizations for the creation and delivery of arts programming for seniors. Teaching artists engage participating seniors in an art project or series of cultural programs over the course of the residency, which also includes a public program component an exhibit, reading, performance, open house or other cultural interaction open to the surrounding community. The program supports residencies for individual artists and cultural organizations at senior centers across the city's 51 council districts. This initiative seeks to connect artists with seniors in senior centers and to positively impact the well-being of older adults through arts-based activities. Su-casa supports artists and organizations sensitive to the needs of older adults and interested in engaging their communities. During fy 23, teaching artist and educator julia justo provided in-person art workshops for seniors at carver senior center in east harlem, manhattan (19 in attendance) and raices astoria social senior center in astoria, queens (17 in attendance) for over the course of three months from april to june. They experimented with various art forms including acrylic paint, stitching, collaging, and more.teen programs provide opportunities for youth of the five boroughs to engage with the museum's mission through various projects. In fy23 el museo del barrio joined the metropolitan museum of art for a teens take the met event on friday, may 12. Education department staff along withteaching artist eliezer berrios and two hunter college (care for the future) interns facilitated a "something beautiful: artmaking station to promote el museo's new exhibition and programs to teens at this museum-wide event at the met, attended by more than 5,000 teens.family programscoqui club, developed in 2016, provides families with children (2-5 years old), a space to learn, play, explore, and grow in a bilingual art museum setting. In fy23 the program began to transition from a virtual program to an in-person program offered twice a month with different themes facilitated by el museo's museum educators. The department relaunched coqui with an in-person program on saturday, december 10, 2023, celebrating the winter holidays. Our educators prepared a lesson and art activity using the book a piata in a pine tree by pat mora. Educators and participants discussed holiday traditions practiced in spanish-speaking countries. On february 4, 2023, we hosted two in-person sessions centering on black history month and read life doesn't frighten me by maya angelou with artwork by jean michel basquiat. Educators and participants were able to draw connections to the story as well as the art displayed in the juan francisco elso exhibition. Coqui club returned to fully onsite programming on the first saturday and third wednesday of the month during march, april and may. In march, we celebrated women's history month by reading my name is celia: the life of celia by monica brown and engaged with an artwork by belkis ayon drawing connections between two strong afrolatina creative forces. We celebrated the welcoming of spring and planted seeds during our april sessions. During the month of may we honored aapi month as well as mother's and caregivers, where we introduced the new something beautiful exhibition and the art of myrna baez. We hosted a drag queen story hour for our pride session on june 10, and a second pride session on june 21., additional resource materials are shared following each program so that families can lead art making experiences at home. Over 300 children and adults participated in these programs in fy 23.