C.W. Post’s Hillwood Art Museum Receives Grant
Funding to Advance Museum-based Education Programs

February 24, 2003 - Thanks to a "GO grant" from the New York State Council on the Arts, Museum Educator Barbara Lynn Cantone of Hillwood Art Museum will travel to the 2003 American Association of Museums Conference in Portland, Oregon in May. The grant will allow Ms. Cantone to investigate advanced methods of museum education for today’s increasingly digital age and methods for the implementation of relevant educational models into the burgeoning Visiting Schools Education Program at Hillwood Art Museum, which is located on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

Hillwood Art Museum’s Visiting Schools Education Program is designed to make the themes of the Museum’s exhibitions relevant and accessible to young people while helping educators to meet the New York State Learning Standards for the Arts. School groups participating in the Education Program are led through a two-hour on-site visit by Museum Educators that includes art history, art criticism, multi-cultural exposition and art-making studio activities.

The GO grant is administered by the Upstate History Alliance for the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. GO grants are part of a series of grants offered to help museums and historical societies strengthen and develop their institutions and work with their communities. These grants are designed to make it easy for organizations to access professional help and improve their institutions.

Hillwood Art Museum is located on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University at 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, New York. To learn more about the Museum’s Visiting Schools Education Program or other Museum programming, call 516-299-4073, e-mail the Museum at museum@cwpost.liu.edu or visit the Museum web site at www.liu.edu/museum.