The Bruce Museum in Greenwich has received a $110,000 grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation.
The grant will support and expand the museum”™s arts education and family programs, the museum said. The funds will support new Bruce initiatives such as Family Studio workshops and existing programs such as the Neighborhood Collaborative program for at-risk youths and the Lifetime of Looking program for visitors with memory loss.
“The Bruce Museum is grateful to the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation for its generous support. In addition to helping the museum expand its award-winning programs, the grant also enables the museum to reach new audiences and develop new programming, like early literacy ”˜Toddler Tours,”™ and ”˜Stroller Tours”™ for parents and their children,” said Suzanne Lio, manager of government, foundation and corporate funding for the museum.
Grant funds will also support the exhibition-themed Family Days, presentations by art historians and scholars, and the Youth@Bruce teen mentoring program.
“We are pleased to support the Bruce Museum”™s programs that bring arts education and programming to families and young children,” said Alexandra Cohen, president of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. “We hope that expanding the Bruce Museum”™s programs will help foster a love of the arts by the families in our community.”
“We are delighted to have received such broad support for education from the Cohen Foundation,” said Peter C. Sutton, executive director of the museum. “This funding supports our ongoing efforts to serve all of our constituencies ”” from the very young to the very old ”” and offer them world-class educational programming in the arts.”
Some of the new initiatives funded directly by the grant, including “Stroller Tours” and “Toddler Tours,” have already begun. Tours for strollers, which take place two Wednesdays per month from 9 to 10 a.m., are open to new moms, dads, caregivers and their infants, offering free guided tours of the museum”™s exhibitions. Toddler museum tours, which are open and designed for children ages 3 to 5 and their families, are offered Tuesdays, 11 to 11:45 a.m., and are free with general admission.
The museum also offers Family Gallery Tours for children 6 to 10 and their families Sundays, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The museum”™s next Family Day, another initiative supported by the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation”™s grant to the Museum, will be in support of Native American Heritage Month, and be held Nov. 23 from 1 to 4 p.m.
The foundation, according to information released to announce the grant, “is committed to achieving lasting and meaningful change in the community through four main areas of focus: education, children”™s health, veterans and the arts.”
