SEED is a production of Mead Art Museum’s education department and edited by Emily Potter-Ndiaye.
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Emily Potter-Ndiaye (she/hers) epotterndiaye@amherst.edu Emily Potter-Ndiaye leads education and interpretive work at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College as the Dwight and Kirsten Poler and Andrew W. Mellon Head of Education and Curator of Academic Programs. In this role, she works directly with students and faculty through college course visits and designing museum-based curriculum. She supports a 4-person education team whose core projects include K-16 curricular programs, student employment/internship/mentoring, public and community engagement, collections access, and inclusive interpretation. Emily’s work mission is to facilitate better, fuller storytelling and connection through programs in history, art, and cultural heritage.
Miloslava (Mila) Hruba (she/hers) mhruba@amherst.edu Before permanently settling in the US, Miloslava was director of the Lobkowicz [Art] Collections in Czech Republic. She joined the Mead in 2010 as a researcher for the Thomas Whitney collection of Russian art. In her current role as Study Room Manager and European Print Specialist, she conducts collection-based research and coordinates art requests and installations for academic programs. She has curated and collaborated on numerous exhibitions. For more than a decade Mila has co-facilitated “Collecting 101: Acquiring Art for the Mead”, a student engaged art acquisition program. Mila continues to train and oversee student interns in ongoing collection metadata projects to enhance access and discovery in the museum online database. She seeks opportunities to integrate digital humanities and sciences into collection research, and to encourage interdisciplinary and intradepartmental use of the collection.
Olivia Feal (she/her/ella) ofeal@amherst.edu Olivia Feal is a museum and arts educator. Born to a Cuban and Puerto Rican father, and Italian and Polish mother, Olivia is a 2nd Generation New Yorker and 1st Generation College Grad. She is an advocate for informal learning spaces, educational equity, hands-on learning and making art and museum spaces accessible. She believes that through the making and close-looking of art we can disentangle personal, institutional and historical narratives to help us take meaningful action in our world. At the Mead, Olivia manages the K-12 School Programs and Amherst College Student Museum Educators, and coordinates the Summer Internship.
Graphic and blog design by Carolyn Gennari, drawing inspiration from former Amherst educator Orra White Hitchcock’s 19th century environmental drawings. The Hitchcock archives are available at Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
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