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News Release Carnegie Museum of Art receives Fine Foundation grant for the Carnegie International Young Audiences Engagement Project March 19, 2008 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...The Pittsburgh-based Fine Foundation has awarded Carnegie Museum of Art a grant of $150,000 for an initiative that will use new media to expand the museum’s outreach to teens and provide compelling pathways by which museum and online visitors of all ages can experience Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International. The Carnegie International Young Audiences Engagement Project will involve a group of local teens who will interact with the art and artists of the 2008 International and parlay their experiences into web site content and formats that will exponentially increase the exhibition’s reach among teens, as well as the 19–25 age group and older audiences. The museum expects that these experiences, combined with opportunities the grant provides for real-life workplace exposure to career paths in studio arts and museums, will prove to be transformative for participating students. “We are grateful to the Fine Foundation for its timely and generous assistance in reaching an important audience for the Carnegie International,” said Richard Armstrong, The Henry J. Heinz II director of Carnegie Museum of Art. The Carnegie International, widely known as one of the preeminent international surveys of contemporary art in the world, was founded in 1896 by Andrew Carnegie. Unparalleled in longevity and influence, it has consistently been among the most innovative and challenging exhibitions of contemporary art. The only regularly scheduled global survey art exhibition in North America, it is also the only one anywhere presented in a museum. The 2008 Carnegie International will include work by 40 artists, for many of whom this will be their American museum debut, and will include approximately 200 works in a wide range of media. The launching pad for the Young Audiences Engagement Project will be a core group of approximately 30 Pittsburgh teens, who will participate in two “teen teams,” one in spring/summer 2008 and one in fall 2008. Working within a supportive environment under the guidance of a coordinator with experience in contemporary art exhibition curating, gallery education, and art criticism, these teens will have unprecedented opportunities to interact with the museum’s collections, educational and curatorial staff, and art and artists from around the world. “The art in the International speaks to the way we lead our lives today, which has great appeal for teens eager to imagine and to shape their own place in the world. The Fine Foundation grant offers us a unique opportunity to open the exhibition to this audience,” says Marilyn Russell, curator and chair of education at Carnegie Museum of Art. “The teen teams will have access to artists, museum staff, and the works in the exhibition. They will have the chance to use the show’s dynamic web site, and specifically the teen area of the web site called “Zero Gravity,” to share their reflections on their experiences with the Carnegie International to a much wider audience. The exhibition becomes an exciting forum not only for investigating contemporary life from an international perspective but for doing so in a way that is at once fun and personally meaningful.” Teens will also be able to contribute to the content of and formats for the International web site and for teen-focused educational programming, to develop and implement teen social events, and to help museum visitors of all ages investigate and respond to the International through web site access at one or more visitor lounges located in the exhibition. Teens in the Project will be instrumental in creating online content and commentary about the exhibition,advising the museum on technical aspects and components to best reach their peers and other audiences, and using their own social networks to create an Internet buzz that draws users to the site and to the actual exhibition. The Visitor Lounge will bring a new vitality to the concept of a “resource center” for the 2008 International. In addition to books, articles, and other traditional print materials, it will contain furniture and computers with access to the International web site. Teen team members located at these sites will not only welcome visitors and encourage them to explore and contribute to the site’s content, but will also foster face-to-face, multi-generational conversations about contemporary life and culture. The museum will recruit participants via popular social networking sites and through contacts at various educational institutions. In order to help ensure a diverse group of teens, Carnegie Museum of Art will reach out to the Pittsburgh Public Schools, Hill House, the Consortium for Public Education, which serves the Mon Valley, and the Arts Education Collaborative, among other local and regional organizations. Support Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh and founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the 16th century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection and exhibition of architectural representations and to the study of all aspects of the built environment. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit our web site at www.cmoa.org.
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