Book Launch: "Fostering Empathy Through Museums"
Date: Friday, October 21, 2016, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, 701 21st St NW, Washington, DC
There is a rapidly growing need for empathy to shape one's purpose and build connections in a complex world. Museums are uniquely equipped to foster empathy as a means to achieve personal, institutional, and societal progress. Join us for a discussion with the contributors to this new volume of trailblazing case studies.
- Elif Gokcigdem, editor, Fostering Empathy Through Museums
- Miriam Bader, Director of Education, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- Emlyn Koster, Director, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
- Amy Landau, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Islamic and South and Southeast Asian Art, The Walters Art Museum
- Jordan Potash, Assistant Professor, Art Therapy Program at the George Washington University
- Tommy Wide, Assistant Director for Special Projects, Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution
Free
open to the public;
no reservations required.
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Danielle Tyson
Development Assistant
George Washington University Museum & The Textile Museum
Washington DC
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