The idea behind CALTA 21 is to make museums accessible to diverse audiences, but mainly
to immigrant audiences, adults and their families.
And it’s based on building partnerships between art museums and community colleges
or any organization of higher education that teaches English to immigrants-- adult immigrants.
I think it’s critical to understand the title of the curriculum and the title is identity
and portraiture.
And so, we’re also using story corps as an anciliary material so that students understand
the nature of identity and explore personal narratives of others and of themselves.
And hten share those personal stories with their classmates and with their community
at large.
And the whole idea with the curriculum with the identity theme is what makes an immigrant
and immigrant?
And how do you make the curric-- whatever, when you go to a museum, how do you see yourself
within a museum?
So the program has ten units.
Eight are taught in the college.
And two are taught in the museum.
And when they go to the museum, it’s like they have started with this practices, talking
about art in the classroom.
They have also become facilitators in the classroom of the chosen artwork.
And then they go to the museum, and the museum educator facilitates the discussion, but then
the student becomes also the facilitator among their peers.
And then at the end of the curriculum, the idea is that you bring your family.
And they facilitate the experience. �