Just as classroom teaching techniques are evolving, museum education programs are becoming more interactive and engaging.
And the museum's education program continues to hold the reputation of being the strongest in the city's major museums.
The pieces will be added to the Eliot Hirshberg collection of art from western Africa, which has been extensively used in the museum's education program.
On Tuesday at 11 a.m. and Oct. 22 at 1 p.m., participants can explore sculptures in a variety of materials and styles by running their hands over them and can study drawings with raised lines, said Nancy Richner, the museum's education program coordinator.
Workshops and discussion events focusing on evolution, which form part of the museum's education program, are also described.
The salute is to benefit the museum's education programs.
Proceeds will support the museum's education programs.
She said she had no plans to veer from Mr. Boyer's course, and would focus on maintaining the museum's education programs.
Elysia Borowy-Reeder, who was most recently the director of the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, N.C., where she focused on strengthening that museum's education programs, will take over in early April.
