Jacqueline Terrassa

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

July–August 2014

Jacqueline Terrassa (Kress Fellow in Museum Education) is the Managing Museum Educator for Gallery and Studio Programs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Director of the Museum Education Division of the National Art Education Association. Driven by a desire to make museums and art organizations useful to people, she has worked in art education, programming, interpretation, and museum strategy for over twenty years. She will research literature from the arts, museum studies, youth development, and education fields to inform a national study that seeks to identify the benefits to students of engaging in facilitated, object-based experiences with works of art in museums during the school day.