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AMY K. GORMAN, Ph.D.Curator of Education & New Media | akgorman@wm.edu | 757.221.2703 Dr. Gorman has been teaching studio arts, in traditional classrooms, online, and abroad since 2000 at a variety of universities and colleges. Her passions for the arts lead her to her doctoral work in museums, realizing that museum settings offered a seemingly unlimited potential for learning and sharing about art. According to Dr. Gorman, “The art museum has unlimited potential of how we can present objects and information, we have such possibilities in the way we present the object and information, that we can connect to audiences in entirely new and deeper ways.” Gorman’s current research areas include the impact of museum education on the viewer, which includes assessment of programming, visitor studies, and an examination of how the viewer interacts with the objects and supplemental information provided by the museum. New media in the museum field, and implications of teaching studio arts online are also research topics that frequent Gorman’s work. She is also a part of the task force Constructivist Museum Working Group, a collaboration of museum educators applying constructivist techniques in the museum, through research and practice. Since starting at the Muscarelle in 2007, Gorman has also been examining the identity of university museums, including the relationship with their parent organization, as well as how they meet the needs of the three key audiences of the Museum; the college, the community and the school systems. Along with responsibilities at the museum, Gorman is currently the executive editor of Art Museum Education, an online chronicle of current research in art museums, as well as a consultant for ArtCreates, a company tailored to museums, guiding in areas of advocacy, education and administration. |
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