WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 1 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:12.960 [waves lapping] 2 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:18.130 WE'RE AT THE END OF THE ROAD BUT AT THE BEGINNING OF KACHEMAK BAY. 3 00:00:18.130 --> 00:00:23.490 AND SO THIS IS A JUMPING-OFF POINT WHERE YOU GET ONTO A SMALL BOAT OR A SMALL PLANE AND 4 00:00:23.490 --> 00:00:26.460 YOU DISCOVER REMOTE ALASKA. 5 00:00:26.460 --> 00:00:30.109 [propellers thrumming] 6 00:00:30.109 --> 00:00:37.060 THE PRATT IS A COMMUNITY MUSEUM IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD, AND THE GREAT ADVANTAGE AND MISSION 7 00:00:37.060 --> 00:00:45.109 OF A MUSEUM LIKE THAT IS TO REFLECT THE RICH LOCAL DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND VOICES AND 8 00:00:45.109 --> 00:00:52.079 HISTORICAL STORIES THAT ARE THERE. 9 00:00:52.079 --> 00:01:03.199 [men chanting in native language] 10 00:01:03.199 --> 00:01:08.690 BACK IN 2003, WE OPENED THIS BEAUTIFUL EXHIBIT, "KACHEMAK BAY: AN EXPLORATION OF PEOPLE AND 11 00:01:08.690 --> 00:01:09.690 PLACE." 12 00:01:09.690 --> 00:01:17.150 IT WAS QUESTION-BASED, AND IT WAS REALLY UTILIZING SCIENCE, ART, AND CULTURE TO EXPLORE THE STORY 13 00:01:17.150 --> 00:01:23.490 OF, WHO ARE WE, HOW ARE WE INFORMED BY OUR PLACE, AND HOW DO WE SHAPE OUR PLACE? 14 00:01:23.490 --> 00:01:28.380 WHAT WE REALIZED AS WE OPENED THIS EXHIBIT IS THAT IT WAS CUTTING-EDGE. 15 00:01:28.380 --> 00:01:34.130 IT WAS WELL-RECEIVED, BUT YET WE HAD AN EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WAS INCREDIBLY 16 00:01:34.130 --> 00:01:39.120 OUTDATED AND DIDN'T MATCH WITH OUR NEW WONDERFUL EXHIBITS. 17 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:46.700 AND SO OUR STAFF QUICKLY SCRAMBLED AND LOOKED TO REVITALIZE OUR EDUCATION PROGRAM. 18 00:01:46.700 --> 00:01:49.150 THAT'S WHAT WE LOOK AT HERE AT THE PRATT MUSEUM. 19 00:01:49.150 --> 00:01:55.700 WE'RE FOCUSED IN ON KACHEMAK BAY, AND WE LOOK AT THE SCIENCE, THE ART... 20 00:01:55.700 --> 00:01:58.420 AND THE CULTURE. 21 00:01:58.420 --> 00:02:05.780 OUR EXHIBIT'S DIRECTOR, OUR MUSEUM DIRECTOR, AND OUR CURATOR GOT TOGETHER AND CREATED A 22 00:02:05.780 --> 00:02:10.789 GRANT WHICH WAS FUNDED THROUGH THE MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA IN 2005. 23 00:02:10.789 --> 00:02:17.090 A GLACIER JUST COMING THROUGH AND JUST SCRAPING THE GROUND, AND THEN AS IT RETREATS, IT LEAVES 24 00:02:17.090 --> 00:02:20.580 A MORAINE, A PILE OF DEBRIS IN FRONT OF IT. 25 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:22.410 YEAH, WE LEARNED ABOUT THAT IN-- 26 00:02:22.410 --> 00:02:23.410 THERE YOU GO. 27 00:02:23.410 --> 00:02:24.410 children: BONES. 28 00:02:24.410 --> 00:02:26.040 BONES, WE TAKE CARE OF BONES, YES. 29 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:28.280 AND YOU TAKE CARE OF BEARS. 30 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:29.280 WE DO. 31 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.280 OUR STUFFED BEAR. 32 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:37.860 KACHEMAK BAY SCIENCE, ART, AND CULTURE IS A VERY BIG MISSION, AND IF YOU LOOK AT ALL-AGE 33 00:02:37.860 --> 00:02:39.450 LEARNERS, IT CAN BE DAUNTING. 34 00:02:39.450 --> 00:02:44.690 SO WHAT WE DID WAS, WE HAD THIS GUIDING DOCUMENT THAT REALLY OUTLINED HOW WE WERE GONNA MEET 35 00:02:44.690 --> 00:02:53.220 THE TERMS OF OUR GRANT AND ALSO BE TRUE TO OUR MISSION AND DEVELOP AN EDUCATION FRAMEWORK 36 00:02:53.220 --> 00:02:55.050 THAT WOULD SERVE US WELL IN THE FUTURE. 37 00:02:55.050 --> 00:03:00.940 AND IN THAT, WE STARTED TO OUTLINE THAT IMPORTANCE OF STORIES, KEEPING IT STORY-BASED, BECAUSE 38 00:03:00.940 --> 00:03:07.180 STORIES ARE INTRIGUING, AND THEY MAKE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE. 39 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:08.180 "OCTOPUS. 40 00:03:08.180 --> 00:03:11.520 "YOU CAN CALL HIM EGGHEAD. 41 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.200 HE'S QUITE A BRIGHT INVERTEBRATE." 42 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:16.880 THAT MEANS "DOESN'T HAVE A BACKBONE." 43 00:03:16.880 --> 00:03:22.870 WE WERE ABLE TO EXPERIMENT BECAUSE WHAT WE LEARNED MORE THAN ANYTHING WITH THE EDUCATION 44 00:03:22.870 --> 00:03:28.210 PROGRAM, YOU JUST HAVE TO TRY THINGS OUT AND SEE HOW THEY'RE RECEIVED BY AUDIENCES. 45 00:03:28.210 --> 00:03:30.770 SO LET'S PRETEND LIKE WE'RE AN OCTOPUS. 46 00:03:30.770 --> 00:03:37.510 I THINK I'M JUST GONNA-- OH, MY GOSH. 47 00:03:37.510 --> 00:03:39.930 AND YOU MIGHT EVEN SLOWLY MOVE AROUND, RIGHT? 48 00:03:39.930 --> 00:03:43.550 PRETEND LIKE YOU'RE THE OCTOPUS IN THE TANK. 49 00:03:43.550 --> 00:03:44.950 YOU HAVE NO BONES. 50 00:03:44.950 --> 00:03:50.130 THANKS TO THE MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA GRANT, WE HAD THE FUNDING TO HELP GROW AN EDUCATION 51 00:03:50.130 --> 00:03:54.020 DEPARTMENT, BUT THOSE FUNDS WERE AVAILABLE FOR A SHORT TIME. 52 00:03:54.020 --> 00:03:59.400 IF WE USE THAT TIME TO REALLY GROW PARTNERSHIPS, WHEN THE MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA GRANT RAN OUT, 53 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:03.090 WE COULD CONTINUE TO GROW THAT PROGRAM. 54 00:04:03.090 --> 00:04:08.940 ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WAS STARTED DURING THIS GRANT TIME PERIOD WAS THE SCIENCE-ART 55 00:04:08.940 --> 00:04:10.220 COLLABORATIVES. 56 00:04:10.220 --> 00:04:12.180 WE DO THE SCIENCE REALLY WELL. 57 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:16.810 THE PRATT DOES THE ART SIDE REALLY WELL, AS WELL AS THE NATURAL HISTORY. 58 00:04:16.810 --> 00:04:24.190 BUT TO REALLY MESH THOSE, IT WAS KIND OF ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT ONCE THE IDEA GOT STARTED, 59 00:04:24.190 --> 00:04:27.410 I THINK IT REALLY GENERATED A LOT OF INTEREST. 60 00:04:27.410 --> 00:04:30.110 THE FIRST ONE WAS CALLED "MICROSCOPIC OCEAN ART." 61 00:04:30.110 --> 00:04:38.139 SO ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW, YOU'RE ASKING ARTISTS TO START PRODUCING WORKS OF ART THAT ARE OFF 62 00:04:38.139 --> 00:04:41.130 OF THINGS THAT YOU CAN'T SEE WITH THE NAKED EYE. 63 00:04:41.130 --> 00:04:43.280 EVERY MONTH, WE WOULD GO OUT. 64 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:45.710 WE WOULD CONDUCT PLANKTON TOWS IN THE BAY. 65 00:04:45.710 --> 00:04:47.539 WE'D BRING IN THE SAMPLES. 66 00:04:47.539 --> 00:04:53.340 AND THEN THE ARTISTS WERE GIVEN SCIENCE LESSONS ON PLANKTON. 67 00:04:53.340 --> 00:04:57.590 IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THAT GRANT, BECAUSE IT REALLY TOOK 68 00:04:57.590 --> 00:05:03.240 A LOT OF STAFF TIME IN THAT FIRST GO-AROUND TO MAKE IT WORK, TO SCHEDULE THE PROGRAMMING, 69 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:09.970 TO WORK WITH PARTNERS, TO COORDINATE ALL THE ARTISTS, TO PROVIDE ALL OF THESE WORKSHOPS 70 00:05:09.970 --> 00:05:15.139 THAT WOULD MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE RESPONDING THROUGH THEIR ART IN A SCIENTIFICALLY APPROPRIATE 71 00:05:15.139 --> 00:05:17.180 WAY. 72 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:22.199 AFTER THEY LEARNED ABOUT THE PLANKTON, THEY WOULD SIT IN HERE WITH MICROSCOPES AND LOOK 73 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:28.930 AT WHAT WAS THERE, AND IT WAS LIKE A WHOLE NEW WORLD ALL OF A SUDDEN OPENED UP IN FRONT 74 00:05:28.930 --> 00:05:32.580 OF THEM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY PAINT PICTURES OF THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS 75 00:05:32.580 --> 00:05:33.910 AND THE SEASCAPES. 76 00:05:33.910 --> 00:05:39.499 AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT WAS LIKE, "WOW, LOOK WHAT IS LIVING IN THE OCEAN." 77 00:05:39.499 --> 00:05:42.800 IT WAS JUST FUN TO WATCH THE WHOLE PROCESS COME TOGETHER. 78 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:48.720 THE OPENING THAT NIGHT AT THE PRATT, I MEAN, IT WAS PACKED. 79 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:55.290 ANY KIND OF CULTURAL PROGRAM OR CULTURE HISTORICAL PROGRAM HAS TO HAVE A LONG TIME FRAME. 80 00:05:55.290 --> 00:05:58.749 IT HAS TO UNFOLD OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS BECAUSE YOU'RE WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES. 81 00:05:58.749 --> 00:06:00.490 YOU HAVE TO BE KNOWN. 82 00:06:00.490 --> 00:06:01.889 THERE HAS TO BE CONTINUITY. 83 00:06:01.889 --> 00:06:06.510 THERE HAS TO BE GOOD COMMUNICATION, AND PEOPLE HAVE TO BUILD TRUST. 84 00:06:06.510 --> 00:06:12.030 THEY HAVE TO SEE THAT WHAT THEY'RE CONTRIBUTING TO COMES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND HELPS WITH 85 00:06:12.030 --> 00:06:15.699 THEIR OWN EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN, AND IT'S IN THEIR SCHOOLS. 86 00:06:15.699 --> 00:06:23.939 AND SO I THINK THE PRATT HAS BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN THAT SORT OF RELATIONSHIP OVER SEVERAL 87 00:06:23.939 --> 00:06:28.120 DECADES, AND IT'S--THEY'VE BEEN STEADY. 88 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:31.310 THEY'VE BEEN CONTINUOUS, AND THAT'S THE KEY. 89 00:06:31.310 --> 00:06:32.340 [propellers thrumming] 90 00:06:32.340 --> 00:06:34.469 TODAY WE'RE GONNA MEET MICHAEL OPHEIM. 91 00:06:34.469 --> 00:06:40.819 HE'S GONNA BE SHOWING US TO HIS MUSEUM WHICH IS HOUSING AND CARRYING FORTH THEIR OWN ARTIFACTS. 92 00:06:40.819 --> 00:06:46.500 AND VERY EXCITING, AND WE'RE VERY PROUD TO BE-- TO HELP SUPPORT THAT AND MAINTAIN THOSE 93 00:06:46.500 --> 00:06:48.210 COLLECTIONS. 94 00:06:48.210 --> 00:06:52.880 AND WE HOPE TO SEE THAT MUSEUM GROW OVER TIME. 95 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:58.219 THIS REMINDS ME OF WHERE WE DID THAT EDUCATION PROGRAM A COUPLE YEARS AGO WITH THE KIDS. 96 00:06:58.219 --> 00:07:00.840 YEAH, THIS WAS WHERE-- THIS IS WINDY RIVER COMING DOWN THROUGH HERE. 97 00:07:00.840 --> 00:07:02.889 IT'S A SALMON STREAM. 98 00:07:02.889 --> 00:07:06.029 NO FISH UP ABOVE HERE BECAUSE OF WATERFALLS. 99 00:07:06.029 --> 00:07:07.669 BEAUTIFUL BACKDROP FOR-- 100 00:07:07.669 --> 00:07:08.669 OH, YES. 101 00:07:08.669 --> 00:07:10.449 TAKING KIDS OUT THERE AND-- 102 00:07:10.449 --> 00:07:11.449 YEAH. 103 00:07:11.449 --> 00:07:14.040 TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING RELATED TO THE ENVIRONMENT. 104 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.719 THAT WAS A FUN PROGRAM. 105 00:07:17.719 --> 00:07:23.559 I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DON'T JUST DEVELOP PROGRAMS THAT ARE PUSHED ON COMMUNITIES. 106 00:07:23.559 --> 00:07:29.419 IF YOU DEVELOP THESE GREAT RELATIONSHIPS AND THERE'S AN OPEN DIALOGUE, A LOT OF THE BEST 107 00:07:29.419 --> 00:07:33.060 PROGRAMMING IDEAS COME FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND PARTNERS. 108 00:07:33.060 --> 00:07:38.020 I DON'T THINK WE COULD HAVE A PROGRAM THAT RUNS AS WELL AS IT DOES WITHOUT THE HELP OF 109 00:07:38.020 --> 00:07:43.129 THE PRATT AND THE STAFF AND THE-- YOU KNOW, THEY'VE BROUGHT SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS TO 110 00:07:43.129 --> 00:07:49.300 THE COMMUNITY, DIFFERENT WORKSHOPS THAT THEY'VE DONE, YOU KNOW, HELPING WITH DIFFERENT CAMPS 111 00:07:49.300 --> 00:07:53.499 AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE'VE DONE, AND THEN OUR BEING ABLE TO SHARE WHAT--WHATEVER 112 00:07:53.499 --> 00:07:54.499 WE CAN. 113 00:07:54.499 --> 00:07:59.060 YOU KNOW, IT'S--YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF TIMES, WE'RE ASKING THEM FOR HELP, 114 00:07:59.060 --> 00:08:03.000 AND SO ANYTIME THEY ASK US, IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MORE THAN 115 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:04.000 HAPPY TO. 116 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:05.000 THAT'S FUNNY. 117 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:06.000 WE ALWAYS FEEL THE SAME WAY. 118 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:12.050 WE ALWAYS FEEL LIKE WE'RE GOING TO YOU WAY MORE. [laughs] SO IT'S KIND OF FUNNY TO HEAR 119 00:08:12.050 --> 00:08:13.979 YOU SAY THAT. 120 00:08:13.979 --> 00:08:17.770 WE'RE ALWAYS CONCERNED WE'RE GOING TO YOU TOO MUCH. 121 00:08:17.770 --> 00:08:19.520 OH, NEVER ENOUGH. 122 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:20.520 IT'S-- 123 00:08:20.520 --> 00:08:23.990 BUT YEAH, IT'S GOOD TO HEAR THAT IT'S MUTUAL, THAT AT LEAST WE BOTH FEEL LIKE WE'RE GETTING 124 00:08:23.990 --> 00:08:25.830 A LOT OUT OF THE RELATIONSHIP. 125 00:08:25.830 --> 00:08:27.090 THAT'S GOOD. 126 00:08:27.090 --> 00:08:31.430 WE CAN TAKE ON BIG PROJECTS WITH CREATIVITY, WITH PARTNERSHIP. 127 00:08:31.430 --> 00:08:38.029 WE CAN LEVERAGE WHAT WE HAVE, AND WE CAN LEVERAGE WHAT THEY HAVE, AND WE CAN TAKE ON A LOT MORE 128 00:08:38.029 --> 00:08:40.770 THAN WE WOULD BE ABLE TO OTHERWISE. 129 00:08:40.770 --> 00:08:50.100 IT TAKES TIME, AND IT TAKES A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EFFORT, STAFF TIME TO DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS 130 00:08:50.100 --> 00:08:51.820 AND TRUST. 131 00:08:51.820 --> 00:08:55.100 AND WE WERE ABLE TO DO THAT DURING THAT GRANT TIME. 132 00:08:55.100 --> 00:09:02.060 WE WERE ABLE TO PUT IN THE TIME AND THE STAFF TO GROW RELATIONSHIPS THAT SERVED US VERY 133 00:09:02.060 --> 00:09:09.470 WELL AFTER THAT GRANT HAD RUN OUT SO THAT NOW THERE'S-- I CAN GET PEOPLE ON THE PHONE 134 00:09:09.470 --> 00:09:12.030 AND GET LETTERS OF SUPPORT, BUT NOT JUST THAT. 135 00:09:12.030 --> 00:09:16.690 I CAN GET HELP WITH PROGRAMS WHEN WE DON'T HAVE THE STAFF. 136 00:09:16.690 --> 00:09:22.551 WHEN PEOPLE NEED THINGS FOR OTHER PROGRAMS, THEY NEED MUSEUM MOUNTS, THEY NEED--THEY NEED 137 00:09:22.551 --> 00:09:27.250 ARTIFACTS TO FILL OUT A PROGRAM, THEY CAN CALL ME UP, AND WE CAN WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE 138 00:09:27.250 --> 00:09:32.700 SURE THAT OUR PROGRAMS-- BOTH SIDES OF THAT-- IT'S A RICHER PROGRAM OVERALL AND THAT WE'RE 139 00:09:32.700 --> 00:09:34.780 SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES. 140 00:09:34.780 --> 00:09:40.430 AT THE END OF THE MUSEUMS FOR AMERICA GRANT IN 2007, WE WERE IN GREAT SHAPE. 141 00:09:40.430 --> 00:09:44.890 WE HAD A VISION-VALUES STATEMENT THAT GUIDED OUR PROGRAMS. 142 00:09:44.890 --> 00:09:48.260 IT MATCHED WITH OUR MASTER EXHIBIT PLAN. 143 00:09:48.260 --> 00:09:52.960 IT WAS FOCUSED AROUND "KACHEMAK BAY: AN EXPLORATION OF PEOPLE AND PLACE." 144 00:09:52.960 --> 00:10:01.220 AND IT ALSO TRACKED ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS WITH PROGRAMMING, AND THANKS TO THE REPORTING 145 00:10:01.220 --> 00:10:04.600 THAT TOOK PLACE DURING THE GRANT, WE HAD A TRACK RECORD. 146 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:10.560 SO EVEN THOUGH NEW STAFF PEOPLE CAME ON BOARD, THEY KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN THOSE TWO YEARS 147 00:10:10.560 --> 00:10:17.210 AND WHAT THE OVERALL MISSION WAS OF THE PROGRAM AND THE--OUR INSTITUTION. 148 00:10:17.210 --> 00:10:22.940 SO IT PROVIDED INCREDIBLE STRENGTH AND CONTINUITY.