{"id":6015,"date":"2012-02-21T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=6015"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:57:54","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/about\/who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art is a preeminent cultural center on campus, supporting the mission, values, and aspirations of the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using exhibitions, collections, educational programs, and staff, the Museum leads and collaborates in interdisciplinary teaching and learning at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. We make the most of our intimate size and academic environment to create hands-on learning experiences, interactions with artists and scholars, and direct engagement with works of art. We take creative approaches to integrate art into college and area school curriculum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We invite you to view our exhibitions, attend and participate in our programming, and become involved with the Museum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a teaching museum at a liberal arts\ncollege, the Museum of Art and its exhibitions, collections, stewardship, and\ninterpretation bring a world of ideas to campus that enhance the vitality of\nthe intellectual and cultural life of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, the surrounding communities, and\nbeyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Museum fulfills its mission by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exhibitions:<\/strong> Serving as a laboratory for thought-provoking exhibitions, art production, critical discussion, and scholarship;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Collections:<\/strong> Acquiring and providing stewardship to artworks of global significance that strengthen the collection and support the museum\u2019s educational mission;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Educational Programming:<\/strong> Developing and implementing a wide variety of art-based, interdisciplinary programs that are integral to the education of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students, and within the broader community, include a special emphasis on K-12 students;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Scholarship:<\/strong> Supporting creative, rigorous, and original scholarship; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leadership Development:<\/strong> Providing professional training through career-focused internships, and cultivating leadership through formal engagement with the museum as scholars, artists, educators, and interns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art is a preeminent cultural center on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"none","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6015","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21106,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015\/revisions\/21106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}