The denver art museum will strengthen its early childhood (EC) art and creativity programs onsite and in the community

The Denver Art Museum will receive $479,144 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) from September 2021 through August 2024 to strengthen its early childhood art and creativity programs. The Museum will establish an Early Childhood Participant Action Group composed of early childhood stakeholders to co-create new program elements for an in-community mini-exhibition program called Art Lives Here/El Arte Vive Aqui. The program will live in schools and community centers for a month and incorporate tailored programming to support cross-curriculum learning. Additionally, the Museum will create an onsite Early Childhood Innovative Teaching Incubator and Learning Lab to provide professional development for early childhood stakeholders and direct programming for early learners in a dedicated early childhood classroom. The Museums for America program aims to help museums better serve the public by advancing their missions and strategic goals.

They will start by establishing an early childhood participant action group that is composed of various EC stakeholders. The action group will support the CO-creation of new EC programmatic elements of the museum's art lives here/EL arte vive AQU -- an in-community mini-exhibition program that lives in schools and community centers for a month and incorporates tailored programming to support cross-curriculum learning. A new onsite EC innovative teaching incubator and learning lab will support professional development for EC stakeholders and direct programming for early learners in a dedicated early childhood classroom.