Liza Torrence and Rhea Creado at the Children’s Museum of Art of Manhattan

Liza Torrence and Rhea Creado always enjoy the time they get to spend at Children’s Museum of Manhattan — whether they are interacting with children and their families as they explore the different art materials, artist installations, and creative spaces in the museum – or facilitating workshops and introducing new materials and tools inspired by the artists in residence at the museum. Their teaching and interactions at the museum complement the ideas they are learning in the MA in Art+Education programs as future classroom teachers and community artist activists. From thinking about student-centered classroom design, to critical multiculturalism and backwards design, time spent teaching and learning in the museum becomes a laboratory for ideas they will bring to the work they will do after they graduate.