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the National Medal for museum and
library services is the nation's highest

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honor for libraries and museums that are
serving their communities in exceptional

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Ways museum of contemporary Art director
bonnie clearwater and community member

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cassandra timothy traveled to Washington
from North Miami Florida to receive the

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National Medal and spoke to imls about
how the museum impacts the community

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moka Mission is to bring the best of
local national and international art

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to Miami and um and especially to the
widest and most diverse audience

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Possible our programming is always at
the very highest level um it is

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contemporary Art so i very often say
We're the most accessible museum showing

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the least accessible Art and um perhaps
because contemporary work is so

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challenging and We don't compromise on
the kind of programming We Do it means

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How do you find Find Ways to engage an audience
in a Way That they feel

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comfortable and open and receptive to
the ideas and the work that are produced

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by artists of our time so the trick
or the or um the Method is to Find Ways to

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bring people in Make them um Break
Down that barrier to feel like they do

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n't understand or This  is too weird um
How to engage and make Feel comfortable

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and That's Done With All kinds of educational
programs public programs

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outreach programs when we had our Keith
herring retrospective i felt this was a

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good introduction for teens to um to the
contemporary Art and We started the

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Junior doson program the Idea was to
have a seminar program it's really Done

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at a very sophisticated level at a
College level seminar We recruited

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students from the High schools and and
not Just from our Media area they Were

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coming from All over Well the Junior do
program It's a program for like after

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school high school students you go in
and you know you kind of Walk through

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the exhibition that are there We kind of
learn about the artist and then We also Come Back

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and We like you know We kind
of Break it Down um We We pretty much

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kind of dissect the artwork and then We
like and We become T guides towards The

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End Of The week so like we'll Give out towards
when we Feel comfortable enough

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but it's Just really Just Going and Just
learning about the exhibition learning

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about the Ar like learning about the
different Crafts and then We kind of put

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It was interesting about
the Junior docent

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program uh We have an Art an Art
historian um Who will uh Meet with the students

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and discuss and it's not like a
typical classroom situation there they

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see this Art it provokes questions um on
İTS own and the students and the and the educator

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and the teacher um have
conversations about it and they learn about

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how to analyze and that kind of um
criticality can be applied to anything

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then We also educate them in How to do public
speaking Now because they're

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going to give tours of the exhibitions
Now That's really important As We Found

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because a lot of the Kids Were not doing
well in their school in İn um When they

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applied to colleges in in the interview
so We put even greater emphasis on the

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public speaking but so We realized if We
taught them the techniques of

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interviewing this would also benefit
them Right Now i graduated College and i

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currently the legislative aid for a
councilman in the City of Tampa Mocha

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Has provided me with the on job Skills
that i need the communication Skills that

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i need Like The ability  To think
critically and like you know Just from

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dissecting Art pieces Now to you know
working in a Council and working with

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the constituent and working with members
in the community i remember Going over

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to the City hing you know dropping off
you know Stuff from our Office And it

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was Just like Now i can put them both
Together and see how they relate cuz

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moka moka We Do so much community
outreach We're in the community and Now

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that i am helping the community i wish i i
hope to bring Art to the Tampa

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community because That's One Thing that
We definitely Need in the City of Tampa

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so That's One Thing i can take Away from
mocha that i've learned in North Miami

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to the City of Tampa Where i am
Now very often people Say That You're

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building the audience For The Future i
often say

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our audiences
today Just because they're Kids Just

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because they're teens doesn't mean We're
building them For The Future This is our audience

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these Are the People engaged
with What We have to do they are at that

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Age Where they are searching  and they're
Still at a point of becoming and that if we

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can Get them at that Moment to
realize that the world is much bigger

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and and so wonderful and so many and
that they are Part of it we could have

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such a major impact we could build a
community That's receptive to

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contemporary Art we could build a community
that would be receptive to

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innovation in Everyday life and thinking
about Ways of solving problems because

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artists are basically problem solvers
and if we Get an audience to understand that that is a

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point of View a way of
thinking that they bring to All problems

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All issues and Something that cassandra
and i Were talking about is how she's

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analyzing in tampa the problems and How to solve
them and that was partly

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Because of the analytical um Training that
she had As a Junior

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