Our Community, Partnerships, Student Associates

“The Complications of Community”: Student Associates visit Shorefront Legacy Center

In early November, the Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) visited the Shorefront Legacy Center to hear from Founder Dino Robinson Jr. on the role of a community archive. Founded in 2002, Shorefront Legacy Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and educating visitors on Black histories from Chicago’s suburban North Shore communities. Facilitated […]

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Partnerships

Partnership Spotlight: Roycemore School’s ‘Museum Mania’

This winter Block Museum staff joined students at Evanston’s Roycemore School who were taking a deep dive into understanding the behind-the-scenes of museum work. High school students at the co-educational college preparatory school step out of the classroom for a special three-week January Short Term. During that time, regular classes are suspended while both students […]

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Partnerships

Partnership Spotlight: Mapping identity with The Leadership Project

In Fall 2020, the Block’s Engagement Department was proud to continue its years-long history of collaboration with Evanston’s Y.O.U. (Youth & Opportunity United), a youth development agency that provides services and leadership to meet the emerging needs of young people and their families in our community. We partnered with the organization’s high school program The […]

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Museum News

Block Museum staff proud to be ‘Readers of Evanston’

The Block Museum is honored to count the Evanston Public Library as one of its key program partners.  We love so many of the Library’s offerings but one of our favorites is EPL’s longstanding Tumblr blog  Readers Of Evanston, profiles in the proud tradition of Humans of New York or Humans of Northwestern. About the […]

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