Rachel Smith Ropeik
RachelRopeik.com Twitter: @TheArtRopeik Instagram: TheArtRopeik
1483 Bedford Ave, Apt 2F Brooklyn, NY 11216 917.603.0226 ropeik@gmail.com
WHERE DO I WORK? CURRENT
• SCHOOL PROGRAMS MANAGER (INTERIM) & TEACHER SERVICES COORDINATOR Brooklyn Museum, NYC
• ART HISTORY & CULTURE GUIDE Context Travel, NYC
since 2014
since 2011
• FAMILY PROGRAMS EDUCATOR Museum of Modern Art, NYC
• GENERAL CONTRIBUTOR (ART HISTORY)
since 2012
Khanacademy.org
since 2010
2010
2008–2011
PAST
• MUSEUM EDUCATOR/FOCUS UNIT COORDINATOR Brooklyn Museum, NYC
2011–2014
• EDUCATIONAL TOUR MANAGER
American Council for International Study
2010
• EDUCATION ASSOCIATE
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
• GALLERY EDUCATOR
Courtauld Gallery, London
HOW DO I HELP PEOPLE ENGAGE WITH ART?
EDUCATOR TRAINING • Professional Development Workshops {1,000+ adult students per year} Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Create innovative programs to help educators teach with and about art, focusing on both skills and content. » Partner with artists to incorporate hands-‐on artistic practice into training.
• Museum Guide Training Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Design and facilitate inquiry-‐based training to keep our multigenerational Museum Guides up to date. » Build opportunities for adult learners to explore museums as both educators and individuals. • Intern Educator Training Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Serve as master teacher to model lessons and discuss pedagogy with paid Intern Educators. » Mentor and manage Intern Educators throughout the year to foster professional and teaching skills.
INTERPRETIVE MATERIALS • “Choose Your Own (Art) Adventure” Oracle Guide Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Created a mood-‐based free-‐choice path through the museum to encourage openhearted gallery exploration.
• “Analogue Instagram” In-‐Gallery Interactive Brooklyn Museum, NYC » With interdepartmental team, designed a photo-‐tagging activity for Killer Heels: The Art of the High-‐Heeled Shoe.
• Special Exhibition & Permanent Collection Resources Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Collaborate with interdepartmental teams on in-‐gallery offerings: text, play-‐based, and participatory formats.
INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENTS • Sensory Tour {300 museum visitors per year} Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Created and led a monthly program for non-‐sighted and sighted visitors, encouraging universal access. » Collaborated with colleagues to design unexpected, multimodal ways to discover artwork.
• MuseumEd Mashup {100 museum colleagues & visitors} Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA » Organized and hosted an inventive, playful gallery program to encourage innovative teaching techniques. » Fostered openness and excitement about artwork in intergenerational audience. Storify. Written reflections. • NAEA Gallery Teaching Marathon {30+ museum colleagues} Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA » Planned and led an experimental, multimodal session to engage colleagues with artwork in new ways. » Pushed boundaries of museum education practice. Written reflection. Video reflection.
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• Museum Teaching Throw Down {60+ museum colleagues} Various Museums, NYC » Co-‐produced and won the first in a new kind of museum event: a competition of experimental gallery teaching. » Organized and hosted a second installment to expand the experiment. Read more here and here.
DIGITAL INITIATIVES • NYC Haunts Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Facilitated a game design program for teens who created a location-‐based game to explore museum galleries. » Helped teens explore digital storytelling, from concept to narrative flow to coding.
• Spearhead and champion the Education Division’s use of digital technology. Brooklyn Museum, NYC » Incorporate digital learning into professional development and gallery teaching. » Introduced iPads to the Division; train staff on their use; continue to incorporate new best practices. • Arts and humanities at Khanacademy.org » Record conversations in front of artwork to engage survey-‐level art historians; write lively accompanying essays. » Edit multimedia files to share conversations on Khan Academy and Google Art Project websites.
HOW DO I TELL MY PROFESSIONAL STORY? New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference • “Museum Throwdown: Shaking It Up, Museum Ed Style”
Presenter, May 2015
National Art Education Association National Convention • “Teaching the Whole Teacher”
Presenter, March 2015
American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting • “Tweeting Toward Innovative #Profdev”
Presenter, May 2014
National Art Education Association National Convention Presenter, March 2014 • “Pencils and iPads and 3D Printing, Oh My! Technology and Sensory Engagement in the Museum”
Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference Presenter, October 2012 • “Sensory Tour: Unexpected Ways to Experience Works of Art for Both Sighted and Non-‐Sighted Participants”
Member: • ArtTable • Hive Learning Network NYC
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National Art Education Association New York City Museum Educators Roundtable
• American Alliance of Museums
WHERE DID I GO TO SCHOOL?
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, London, England {Master of Arts, Art History}
2009
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Wellesley, MA {Bachelor of Arts, Art History / French} 2003 • Graduated magna cum laude / Foreign study: University of St Andrews, Scotland & Université de Provence, France.
WHAT ELSE DO I DO? PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL • Innately curious and experimental • Adept multi-‐tasker, independent worker
• Tactful collaborator, supportive supervisor, reflective researcher • Strong organizer with fine attention to detail, quick learner
LANGUAGE • English and French fluency. Talented writer, adept at tailoring style to diverse audiences. Unfazed by 140 character limits.
DIGITAL / SOFTWARE • Social Media: All major platforms • Graphics: Adobe Photoshop and InDesign
• Web design: HTML, Dreamweaver • Editing: GarageBand, Audacity, Screenflow, Mozilla PopcornMaker