Engaging New Museum Audience Through Art Workshops: The Case of “Adult Art” at Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

Christina Mavini
Additional contact information
Christina Mavini: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

A chapter in Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism, 2019, pp 327-335 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Based on its experience on educational programs and acting as a contemporary institution that responses to social changes, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, a private, non-profit institution in Thessaloniki, has organized and implemented in the past, large-scale art workshops for immigrants and unemployed people, in the framework of co-funded programs by the European Integration Fund and by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, respectively. The precious experience from the programs, as well as from the museum’s multidimensional educational activity, determined the mapping process of the audience’s learning needs and led to the realization of “Adult Art”, a financially self-supporting and sustainable workshop addressed exclusively to adults. Adopting an innovative combination of the theoretical presentation with the experiential process of artistic creation, the workshop offers new museum experiences to the attendants, which promote a better understanding on contemporary art and the familiarization with the museum space. Being implemented for three consecutive years with a constantly increasing number of participants, Adult Art manages to fulfill MMCA’s mission statement for being an “engaging museum” while responding to the museum’s current needs. In terms of “audience development”, it reflects an initiative that creates new perspectives for the further integration of adult education in museum sites.

Keywords: Contemporary art; Museum; Audience; Education; Workshops; Adults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-12453-3_37

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030124533

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12453-3_37

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().