Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by faculty member, curator and art educator Stephanie Cunningham.

Cunningham is the curator of education at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Her teaching career spans almost 10 years and has afforded her the opportunity to teach in a variety of environments. She has practiced inquiry-based learning methodologies at cultural institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, where she helped create the internal wiki database and pedagogical approach for engaging visitors through the museum's award-winning ASK app. At New-York Historical Society she prepared lesson plans that focus on K-12 schools' interest in American history as well as more didactic approaches in tertiary level classes as a lecturer at City University of New York and New Jersey City University.

She has led training workshops for the Guggenheim Museum's educators on ways to better engage visitors. At Weeksville Heritage Center she assisted in creating educational programs and increasing their online presence. Cunningham also co-curated Walcott House in Saint Lucia, the childhood home of Derek and Roderick Walcott, influential Caribbean visual artists, poets and playwrights, and wrote the script for the historic house’s tour guides.

Cunningham is the co-founder and creative director of Museum Hue, an organization that works to increase diversity in patrons, professionals, and cultural producers in the creative economy; Museum Hue produces and presents arts and cultural experiences throughout the U.S. and abroad, serving artists, arts organizations and neighborhoods worldwide. She holds a BA in art and art history from Brooklyn College and an MA in cultural heritage and preservation studies from Rutgers University.