CURRENT Athens is an online platform for the non-hierarchical promotion of contemporary art.

Georgia Krantz is an independent accessibility trainer and consultant. The bulk of her professional career has been spent in New York City where she works with museums and other cultural institutions to develop accommodations for people with disabilities. In education as well as all other departments, staff members learn how to re-evaluate their thinking and their practices with regards to creating greater inclusion. As a veteran educator, Georgia also specializes in teaching art to people who are blind or have low vision. And as an art historian, she has developed courses that explore relationships between art, sight and blindness. Georgia currently works in education and accessibility at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York University, all in New York City, and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. She worked for many years in education and access at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Other institutions where she has facilitated accessibility training and consulting include the Jewish Museum, Dia Art Foundation and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, all in New York City; and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece. Georgia volunteered for 7 years as a Steering Committee Member of the Museum Access Consortium in New York City.
Conference: 30.11.2017, 09:00

Opening Hours: 09:00-17:00
Pre-registration for the workshops is available onĀ Eventbrite from 20.11.2017

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