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Each week the Brooklyn Museum Summer Interns participate in full-day educational programs that explore the roles of museums through on-site visits and field trips to other institutions around the city. Look out for our weekly posts where we’ll share what we’re doing and learning in the program.

Week 2: We kicked off our inaugural Tuesday of educational programming gathered around a table in our home-base studio. There we returned to the essential questions Erika and Monica, our program coordinators, posed to us on our first day at the museum one week before: What does it mean to be a responsive museum? Should the Brooklyn Museum strive to be responsive? These are the framing themes of our summer, queries we will revisit every Tuesday from various approaches.

From the studio we headed upstairs to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art to explore Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall. Exclusive access to the galleries on Mondays and Tuesdays, when the museum is closed to the public, is a pretty extraordinary perk of the job. We moved through the space silently, each focused on reconstructing the essential question of the exhibition through its rallying and vibrant works. Back in the studio we reflected together. Cheyenne, a summer intern in the Development Department, shared her interpretation of the exhibition’s mission: to offer a means of commemoration and celebration of a historically invisible group in a gradually accepting era.

We bounced back to earth from our orbit of theoretical conversation to engage in a visual thinking workshop with facilitator and artist Ebon Heath. Ebon brought the energy. In the Beaux-Arts Court we created mind maps using various mediums. The exercise was introspective and allowed the interns, a generally creative bunch, to go off artistically. Our third mind maps grew out of a guiding question or goal in our lives. My map revolved around the question “What am I passionate about?” with off-shoots that featured the guest stars of my anxieties, “Do I have to be good at what I like?” and “Do I have to like what I’m good at?”

Wiped out from existential exploration, we refueled with lunch at the picnic tables. The olive baguette and rosemary braided loaf Erika brought us from her baker neighbor helped. Still, I overheard the adjacent table discussing whether preserving art was a valuable endeavor on an ever-deteriorating and ultimately doomed earth.

The vibe got back on track during our afternoon visit to the Museum’s Libraries and Archives where we unanimously agreed that preserving art and historical records makes for some unique discoveries. We sifted through correspondences, magazines and records from the museum’s history that BKM archivist Molly had pulled for us with the theme of responsiveness in mind. I especially enjoyed a 1930s complaint letter detailing the shenanigans of a pack of hooligan boys on the roof of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

We finished the day with an observation exercise in Kwang Young Chun: Aggregations. We sat around Kwang Young Chun’s Aggregation 15 - JL038, a 3-D conglomeration of mulberry paper triangles that create a meteorite-like shape and that echoes a slightly offbeat iambic beat. We listened first, then looked. In our reflection we compared what we saw in the piece, some calling it a planet, an organ, a cityscape. Monica closed the day by posing a final question: How is knowledge constructed? Exhausted by a long day of thoughtful engagement, we decided to leave the question for next Tuesday. We’ve got plenty to think about until then.

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