1. Learning Labs Grantee Convening
Cohort 1 Updates
February 12 - 13, 2013
Washington, D.C.

2. houston art new generation @MFAH

3. hang@MFAH
Goals planning and design phase:
•building a community at the MFAH that utilizes visual art
and digital media learning to help young people acquire
digital media skills, and producing an evaluation of the
planning and design of hang@MFAH
•using existing spaces on the MFAH campus to select and
design the physical Learning Lab for hang @MFAH.

4. Action Based Research

5. Making Progress Through
Experimental Spaces

6. How do we get from here to here?

7. Go Mobile

8. Making Progress
• real and growing demand for teen
programming at the MFAH
• new and experimental short-term programs in
the spring based on feedback from teens

9. hi tech- low tech
Mentor Artists and MFAH collections
are the reason teens come to MFAH.

10. Building A Community

11. Ah-Ha Moments
• Too many options are too many options
• A Place for all People
– Behind the scenes adds a sense
of ownership
– Teen Memberships

12. Lessons Learned
– What has been the most exciting aspect?
• Comfort level increase
– What has been the most challenging aspect?
• Size of MFAH
– What do you wish you knew at the beginning?
• Inherent problems with multiple managers on a pilot
program
– What is your advice for cohort 2?
• Try what you know. Don’t fear failure.

13. What’s next?
• Audience Growth
– More programs and projects
– More Hi tech-low tech
• Evaluation
– Think Tanks
• Sustainability plans
– Expanded Museum Campus