Westlake Students Take Part In Elite, Prestigious Art Program

WESTLAKE, OH — For the sixth straight year, Westlake High School students were invited to take part in a select and prestigious program offered by the Cleveland Museum of Art. The program, the Museum Ambassadors, is open to only six schools in Northeast Ohio.

As part of the museum's program, students get to peek behind the curtain and see how a world-class art institution operates. Participants also get to check out the operations of the nearby Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Children's Museum.

According to a Westlake Schools spokesperson, the goal of the program is to drum up interest and understanding of careers at museums. Students can get their first taste of life inside the Cleveland Museum of Art through the Ambassadors. Participants will also get to experience different parts of museum life, like curation and marketing, among many others.

This year, the program is geared to bringing more teenagers into the museums. To do that, the Cleveland Museum of Arts wants to develop a Teen Guide system. Plus, the museum wants to institute a new mobile application to utilize more "Teen Tours."

This year, 10 Westlake High students were selected to take part in the program. The students are part of the AP Art History and International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge classes and programs at the school. Students are selected via an application process. Applicants are picked by Social Studies teacher Beth Noren.

The 10 students from Westlake taking part this year are: Kat Bowe, Leah Bunner, Hena Delic, Alex Falcone, Jackie Moracz, Abbey Moutoux, Lily Powers, Bridget Quinn, Isabelle Southern and Adam Yusoff.

The Ambassadors program runs for about eight months, between October and May. Students will meet at the museum once in each of those months and will develop a project for the museum during their time there.

The other schools invited to attend the Ambassadors program this year are: Bedford High School, Cleveland School of the Arts, Shaker Heights High School, John Hay High School and MC2STEM High School.

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