Today we asked Naima J. Keith, VP of Education and Public Programs at LACMA: How can art educate?

And have you ever wondered:

• How do museums fit into our cultural ecosystem? What purpose do they serve for community members? What purpose should they serve? And what is at stake?
• Who works in each department of a museum? What is each role’s set of responsibilities?
• What kinds of strategies do curators & museum educators employ to facilitate education through art? How do these approaches differ?

Get bona fide answers and advice from Naima on Episode 2 of Declassified.

About Naima:

Naima currently works as the Vice President of Education and Public Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Before LACMA, Naima worked as Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the California African American Museum in LA and received the David C. Driskell Prize in 2017 for her contributions to the field of African American Art History. Naima also worked for several years as a curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Naima has written extensively for publications like Art Forum, Art News and worked as co-artistic director for this year’s installment of the Prospect New Orleans triennal. She received her Bachelor's degree from Spelman College and her Masters from UCLA, both in Art History.

Find her on IG: @naimajoy

Definitions and more resources on www.declassified-pod.com/episodes/keith & IG @declassified.pod. See you next week!