The welcoming museum | Caroline Meyers | TEDxVCU

Modern art — paintings consisting of a single line, or sculptures that are just abstract blobs — is confusing at best and boring at worst to many people when not contextualized properly. However, museum labels that engage visitors on a personal level could help museum visitors become more confident in drawing their own conclusions from art they view and truly enjoy their museum visit.

Caroline is a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Art Foundation program and the Honors College, hoping to major in Sculpture & Extended Media. She recently completed a semester-long research project on creating opportunities for constructive learning in museums, where she proposed several new labels for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' 21st Century collection. This work, along with the amount of time Caroline has spent visiting museums with different people, all of whom have varying levels of interest in art, has made me passionate about observing the different ways people function in art museums and finding methods to maximize the informal learning experiences that occur therein. As a lover of art but also as one museum visitor among many, Caroline loves discovering innovative programs museums use to serve their visitors as best they can.

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