Audrey Jacobs
Audrey Jacobs received her Master’s in Art History and Certificate of Museum Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2014. Soon after, she took a position at The Heritage Center at Red Cloud as Museum Educator. This contemporary Native art museum is located in the territory now known as the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. She served as Museum Educator at the Center for 6 years, building school, youth, and adult programming and teaching a continuing education course for k-12 educators called “Teaching with the Art Museum.” Now in the Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation program at FSU, her research builds on her previous work at the intersection of K-12 schools and art museums, investigating the use museum studies in formal learning environments.
Areas of Study
Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation
Research Detail
Art museum and school collaboration. Academic art museums. K-12 museum schools; museology as pedagogy. Object-based learning.
Undergraduate Institution/Degree
Creighton University
Bachelor’s in Art History and French
Masters Institution/Degree
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Master’s in Art History and Museum Studies Certificate