FY2020-2021 CONNECTING AND REFLECTING
Folk art to go and online | Some 3,736 free art activity kits were distributed by the museum’s education department to youth statewide, including at tribal libraries, in FY2021. The kits included art materials for making cornhusk dolls, Japanese Koinobori Carp kites inspired by the exhibition Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan and miniature recycled works reflecting each student’s unique community. Museum educators also offered virtual classroom visits on various folk art topics to pre-K through 8th-grade students around the state.
A new network | Alaka Wali, curator of anthropology at Chicago’s Field Museum, took the helm of a new advisory committee focused on cultural representations in the museum. With the help of visitor and staff feedback, the committee will create a new interpretive plan for the Girard Wing permanent exhibition Multiple Visions: A Common Bond. Possible outcomes include interactive components and new gallery and audio guides. Left: Toyokuni III, Actor Onoe Waichi II as a Tofu Seller and a One-Legged Umbrella Monster, from the series Magic Lantern Slides in a Dance of Seven Changes, 1857. Paper, ink. Museum of International Folk Art collection. As seen in Yokai: Ghosts and Demons of Japan. Photo courtesy Museum of International Folk Art.
34 educational programs delivered 245 virtual and in-person classes 6,214 schoolchildren reached 1 in-person and 5 online exhibitions 8
$214,000 exhibitions and education support $63,000 event revenues $517,000 total private support m useumfoundation.org
