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the national medal for Museum and

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Library Services is the nation's highest
honor for libraries and museums that are

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serving their communities in exceptional
ways Columbus Museum of Art executive

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director Nanette Macy Junes and
Community member Jeffrey Tucker traveled

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to Washington from Columbus Ohio to
receive the national medal and spoke to

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imls about how the museum impacts the
community well the Columbus Museum of

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Art has been on a great journey uh it's
it's been an incredible ride so we

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wanted to go on a journey where people
wanted to spend time with us they wanted

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to come and be at the art museum in fact
one of the things we talk about a lot is

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when you talk about a library you always
talk about using a library but you

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always talk about visiting a museum what
would it look like to use a museum what

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would that look like if it was really
part of your life and it was you know

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there was this sort of you know
interactive relationship with your art

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museum what that look like so that's the
journey we decided to go on and so one

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of the things we did was we embraced the
idea of being about creativity because

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there isn't anyone if if you're really
talking about everyone talk about

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something everyone needs and every one
of us needs creativity in their lives I

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mean we're GNA solve the problems of the
21st century we need creativity we need

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people to think outside the box think in
entirely new thoughts um art lab is one

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of our new programs so this is an
immersion program where it's 12 to 20

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kids from different schools you know
they're regularly with us you know each

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week all year long and the idea is for
them to for us to find out what

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interests them related to creativity in
the Arts and then also how do they see

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the museum in a different way I didn't
really know what art lab was but I knew

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my intership was at a museum but once we
actually start doing stuff in art lab I

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realized it was a cool program we like
make videos we traveled all around

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Columbus we played with like MacBooks
and HD cameras like oh my it was just so

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cool like we had a certain topic and our
topic was how does something relate back

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to the museum so we'll go out we'll make
a video but it has to relate back to the

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museum if that makes sense but now it
has completely broaden like this year we

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did a social Sunday for this year art
lab interns and there were so many

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different topics like there was a group
that talked about um how do you save

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puppies and there was also a group about
how um how you recycling more can help

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with the water and pollution so honestly
arap has truly involved to something

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like what you really enjoy doing and try
and make it more public and known like

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media based I was the master disaster of
Technology seriously do not give me a

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computer because I feel like I'll break
it like I just refuse to touch it but

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once I like done artart lab like my
mentor Kristen Lance like she made me go

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touch a camera she made me go on MacBook
like she like made me do it cuz she said

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like the only way for you to enjoy it is
for you to get used to it so like I was

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really nervous I knew nothing like but
now I can't see myself living without it

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I really want to make a statement on how
I can make it as a film producer or

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something across media like that's my
big dream that's my big goal that I have

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in mind and I couldn't have done that
without the museum I think that Jeffrey

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embodies what we're trying to do because
Jeffrey has discovered his his

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creativity he's discovered his passion
for life by connecting with the art

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museum the fact that he discovered that
at the art museum I think for me is the

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most validating thing about what we've
done he he found it at the Museum and

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he'll take it out into the world from
the art

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museum connecting people in art is so
is so important because I think that's

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at its core what art museums started out
to be you know art museums live in this

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wonderful tension
between uh between the art and the

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people because art museums or any kinds
of museums and libraries are about

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they're the and they're the art and
people it is the connection it is the

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the discoveries it is the AHA moments
it's it's all that you discover when

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you with the object and one thing that
makes us very unique as an art museum um

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is that a lot a lot of people are trying
very experimental programs but to change

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to be willing to experiment with the
experience inside the gallery and we

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have been very bold and I think that
sets the Columbus Museum of Art apart we

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call these interactive elements inside
our regular galleries I mean there are

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wonderful works of art surrounding you
they you know Renaissance paintings

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modern pictures around you on the walls
a regular gallery and we'll introduce uh

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a Post-It note station where you we ask
you a question and then you can write on

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a Post-It note and put it there and and
sometimes we'll these are hugely popular

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people love to have a conversation
around posted through Post-it notes and

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they'll even like draw arrows to the
other Post-it notes say I totally

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disagree with this person and they
should not say that you know or I agree

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or I think this or you know so this idea
of having interactive Post-It note

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station in an art museum Gallery is very
unusual

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those conversations that you have at Art
Museums those connections between people

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and then between people and the art
object and the artist that created it

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those are things that for us has been
the journey we've been trying to go

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on