Classroom Conversations: Collaborative Learning From the Cravens Collection

Each spring semester students in museum studies course at the University at Buffalo work to further contextualize the diverse objects in the Cravens Collection by conducting research on the objects’ origins and uses. During the Spring 2018 semester, this on-going project extended beyond UB by inviting two classes from Highgate Heights Elementary to participate in the process of understanding and interpreting these objects.

Classroom Conversations is the result of this semester long collaboration. Research by UB students on selected African objects from the Cravens Collection is paired with colorful artwork and research by their elementary school partners.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.