Education Is Not Expendable: Naima J. Keith on What Will Be Lost as Museums Continue to Make Cuts

Naima J. Keith is vice president of Education and Public Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Museums, as cultural institutions, are uniquely situated to define and mediate history in real time—and museum education departments, in particular, play a critical role in doing so. Every visitor to a museum brings an individual set of experiences and points of view, and finding ways to make art accessible and resonant to all of them is no easy task. Educators—traditionally one