For Partners

COOL CULTURE FAIR

The annual Cool Culture Fair provides cultural partners with a great opportunity to cultivate nontraditional audiences—by reaching early education professionals who work tens of thousands of low-income families.

Each year, the Fair brings our cultural partners together with more than 400 early educators, Cultural Liaisons and parents.

This year’s Culture Fair was held at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Monday, November 16th. The schedule of events included an opportunity for Cultural Liaisons and parents to network with attending cultural institutions, followed by breakout sessions which feature by museum educators, early childhood professionals and arts administrators. 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Cool Culture is commited to bridging the achievement gap for children in low-income families. In doing so, we are also working to close the participation gap of diverse and nontraditional families in NYC's considerable cultural riches and the learning resources that they provide.

Whenever possible, Cool Culture seeks to facilitate knowledge transfer among its early childhood, museum and nature center educators. 

Listen to:
  • Mayrav Fisher
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, discussing developing new audiences
Professional Development for Cultural Liaisons

Each year, Cool Culture works with a select number of cultural partners to provide art-based professional development experiences to early childhood directors, educators and social service staff at participating programs.  

Co-led by Cool Culture program staff, museum and early childhood educators, the workshop sessions expose early education professionals to the exhibits, programs and hands-on activities available at a select number of museum partners.  Our focus is on developing Cultural Liaison’s repertoire of skills to help parents make their children better learners by tapping into arts and cultural resources.

Hosting a workshop is just another way you can partner with our early childhood educators and social service professionals to reach underserved families.