Education
The Aldrich Museum has numerous educational programs for adults, teens, children, and families, According to its website, the programs and materials are designed “to help people think in new directions by focusing on the process of looking at and analyzing contemporary art with the hope that these skills translate to the everyday lives of our viewers.”
In 1993, former executive director Harry Philbrick, while director of education, started The Aldrich Museum’s Student Docent Program. Student Docents from local schools are trained to lead their classmates through the galleries while discussing contemporary art and concepts like structure, content, form, symbolism, abstraction and metaphor. Students also get to see the installation process of the exhibitions on view and meet the artists. In an interview with The New York Times Philbrick said: "It begins to get them to think critically about the process—making the work of art and hanging an exhibition. They know there's a real live human being who makes these things, and can relate what they learn to a work of art." The program has been adopted by museums across the United States.
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