Teaching Practice
Kat Chávez teaching a Guided Gallery Visit about African American Art at the Brooklyn Museum with students in the 6th grade.
Gallery Teaching
View lesson plans that I created for Guided Gallery Visits at the Brooklyn Museum:
Art Stories (2nd Grade)
Arts of Ancient Egypt (5th Grade)
Arts of the United States: Westward Expansion (5th Grade)
African American Art (7th Grade)
Art and Activism - Critical Media Literacy (8th Grade)
Kat Chávez facilitating an activity with participants in the Work-Study Program at the Brooklyn Museum.
Teen Programs
During my time as a Fellow in Museum Education at the Brooklyn Museum, I worked with two communities of teen staff at the museum: the Teen Night Planning Committee and the Work-Study Program within the Gallery/Studio Program.
A drawing prompt from Kat Chávez’s studio art class at the Brooklyn Museum with artists ages 6-7.
Studio teaching
During summer 2017, I worked as an artist’s assistant at Self Help Graphics and Art, a community arts space in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, during their Summer of Youth (S.O.Y) Artista program. I supported various artists in teaching mediums of linoleum block printing, photography, and silkscreen printmaking with students ages 12-24.
I also supported classes as part of the Gallery/Studio Program at the Brooklyn Museum. I taught my own class virtually with students age 6-7, while in quarantine due to COVID-19.
Virtual cross-departmental focus group meeting as a part of my research project.
Teaching research Project
While working at the Brooklyn Museum, I conducted an extensive research project surrounding provenance and colonial contexts at the Brooklyn Museum. This project involved explorations of audience questions and interests, cross-departmental staff dialogue, and insight from other institutions.