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Learn about collaborative approaches to lifelong learning in museums that support and engage older adults.
Laurel Humble will share experiences and reflect on her nearly 20 years working in museum education with older adult audiences at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. She considers how museums can support adults as they age, particularly as they navigate late-in-life experiences such as loss, onset of disability, and ageism. She also explores how museum educators can shape practices that foster meaningful aging, creating a better world in which to grow older.
Drawing from her work teaching, developing programs, and collaborating with participants, caregivers, teaching artists, health-care providers, and community organizations, Humble traces a professional and personal journey. Her practice shows that engaging with art in a museum is not only about the art and artists on view, but about the ways art can support connection—to oneself, to one another, and to larger human experiences that stretch across time and geography. A Q&A led by a student from the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy immediately follows the talk.
IMAGE CAPTIONLaurel Humble. Photo: Kristen Brown.
The Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy (AAEP) is a robust, innovative, and welcoming community that prepares educators, researchers, administrators, and policymakers in the fields of arts education, arts management, museum education, and cultural policy. Through an ongoing partnership between the department and the Wexner Center for the Arts, this lecture series brings thinkers, scholars, and practitioners in our field to Ohio State’s campus, aiming to support the community of AAEP and enhance academic excellence for emerging arts education practitioners.
Laurel Humble is associate director of lifelong learning and accessibility at the High Museum of Art, where she develops programs grounded in the belief that later life is a dynamic, creative, and deeply meaningful stage of ongoing growth and connection. Prior to joining the High Museum, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where she oversaw Prime Time programming for older New Yorkers and worked on two pioneering initiatives: Meet Me at MoMA and The MoMA Alzheimer’s Project. Laurel holds a BA in art history from University of Georgia and an MA in urban education from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Greater Columbus Arts CouncilOhio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the ArtsCampusParcThe Columbus FoundationThe Ohio State UniversityWexner Center Foundation BoardWith special thanks to our members
Laurel Humble
