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We are working with three other contemporary
art institutions around the United States.

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Those are L.A. MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center

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in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and then the Contemporary
Art Museum of Houston.

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And all of these museums have had intensive
teen programs, sort of a teen council model

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that welcomes youth into the institution and
engages them kind of as ambassadors, giving

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them the opportunity to lead tours and develop
programs and events for other teens, interpretive

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materials.

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So, all of these institutions have had these
programs operating since the early to mid-1990s.

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And we are working together to do an evaluation
of the continuing and long-term impacts of

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those experiences on the participants, on
the institutions, and then on the broader

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communities.

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And we looked for similarities among the programs
in terms of structure, in terms of duration,

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in terms of the sort of number of youth served,
the kind of population that the museums are

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working with.

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So there are some kind of baseline shared
variables that we thought were really important

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to be able to compare the impacts.

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But almost what seems more important is the
conversations that we had with the programmers

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about what outcomes they see as a result of
their work.

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You know, we’re thrilled to have the opportunity
to do this work.

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I think for a long time, we’ve sort of intuitively
known about the value of the experiences that

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we’re able to provide in these programs,
but I think to be able to kind of turn that

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we think it’s good, we think it’s really
important, into substantive research that

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can actually have an impact on the field is
an incredible opportunity.

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And just the sort responses we’ve gotten
from other folks in the field-- colleagues

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at other institutions, etc. has been overwhelmingly
positive.

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And there appears to be a lot of interest.

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And so, we’re really happy to be able to
almost fill a need within the museum community

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by doing this work.

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It feels good that there’s also kind of
an interested audience.�