Art BridgesLearning & Engagement
Museum visitors participating in programming for Action/Abstraction Redefined at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO). Action/Abstraction Redefined is organized by IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Who Can Apply?
Art Bridges partner institutions with current collection placements or traveling exhibitions, as well as those that are part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program, are eligible to apply for Learning & Engagement support.
Mural blessing from members of the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation with community activists at the San Antonio Museum of Art River Pavilion. Courtesy of the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX).
Our Walls: Real and Imagined at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, FL).
What's the Process?
Once your collection placement, traveling exhibition, or cohort project is approved, we will work with you to apply for Learning & Engagement funding.
We start by scheduling a call to walk you through the application process and discuss your ideas.
Guest speakers and attendees at the lecture “For Which It Stands: Brick by Brick: Black Women Breaking New Ground”, hosted at the Avery Research Center at College of Charleston, July 2022. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charlston, NC). Programming inspired by the exhibition Fights for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice. The exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Work With Us
Community-buildingSupport
We support projects that engage new audiences in sustained and meaningful ways by funding items such as transportation, virtual components, gallery interactives, community advisory groups, translation, and more!
TransformativeSupport
We support projects that transform the ways museums engage with their communities through creative risk-taking and a potential to transform the museum field.
InterdisciplinarySupport
We support projects that integrate multiple disciplines — such as the performing arts, science, technology, and others — to expand access and audience engagement within the visual arts.
