Your Food Story: Storytelling through the Photography of Community Landscapes
- Penn Museum, The Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and Sayre High School
- Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI), Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Material (CAAM), Penn Museum, The Netter Center
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Community Partnerships Grant
Student from Netter Center AUNI program at Sayre High School looking at a small pepper they planted.
Your Food Story: Storytelling through the Photography of Community Landscapes seeks to introduce Sayre High School students to ways that food, nutrition, urban gardening, and museum research are connected to the ways that ancient cultures prepared and consumed food, and to highlight food stories from their families and local communities. This pilot program is based on the feedback and needs of our community partners through the relationship building and community engagement advocacy of the Penn Museum’s inaugural Chief Diversity Officer and new Merle-Smith Director of Learning and Community Engagement. This educational program for high school students is intended to activate the youth voice within museum exhibitions and interpretation with the goal of helping them to build professional skills they can use in careers in the arts and sciences. The program will be offered as a six-week pilot during the summer of 2023 for students working with the Netter Center for Community Partnership program at Sayre High School in their Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI). Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Netter Center, seeks to expose students to museum careers while connecting the Museum’s Ancient Food & Flavors exhibition to the local community through the AUNI program in which students learn about nutrition, food heritage, and gardening.