Developing a resource for caregivers with children under twelve.
By Jeremy Kreusch
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, we’re especially mindful of the children who visit our museum. It’s important that, while certain works in the exhibitions are not for children, that our museum still is.
When I learned that we’d be hosting exhibitions prominently featuring nudity and sexual content, I called my neighbors: the sex education team at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. I asked them to partner with me to help ensure that families with young children were prepared to encounter artwork they may not be ready to talk about. How could we do that without stigmatizing bodies, sex, or queerness?
Together, we created a resource with practical tips for caregivers with children under twelve that emphasizes safe, developmentally appropriate, sex-positive tools that will be distributed at the MCA’s admission’s desk.
Jeremy Kreusch
Jeremy Kreusch is the Director of Interpretation and In-Gallery Learning at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and teaches arts integration at the College of Education at DePaul University.