Teaching History through Museums

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The Relevance of Financial Education in Schools

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The Asian Art Museum Exhibition, Lost at Sea

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N-YHS Supports Citizenship Efforts via the Citizenship Project

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OMCA’s Ongoing "Question Bridge: Black Males" Exhibit

A registered investment advisor serving roughly 250 families, The Putney Financial Group in San Rafael provides financial planning and wealth management services to a wide range of clients. Recognizing the importance of cultural institutions, The Putney Financial Group has also sponsored museum exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) in the past.

Dedicated to helping Californians create a more vibrant future, the OMCA brings together history, art, and natural sciences. Featuring a collection of more than 1.9 million items, the museum hosts temporary and ongoing exhibits, such as Question Bridge: Black Males.

Named a top exhibition in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Chronicle, Question Bridge: Black Males is housed in the OMCA’s Gallery of California Art. It’s an immersive experience that grants viewers the opportunity to watch face-to-face conversations between more than 160 black men around the country. These men answer one another’s question with vulnerability and honesty, thus granting viewers an in-depth look into their lives. They also share beliefs, values, and stories of their experiences.

Question Bridge: Black Males creates a portrait of the future, past, and present of black men in the United States. The video installation was created by Hank Willis Thomas and Christ Johnson, in collaboration with Kamal Sinclair and Bayeté Ross Smith.

California Historical Society Exhibit of Emptied San Francisco Streets

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Sketch Aquarium - Interactive Exhibit at the Asian Art Museum

Based in California, The Putney Financial Group carefully integrates all three capital development stages to help clients achieve their financial and wealth goals. Active in its community, The Putney Financial Group supports local organizations such as the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

In an effort to introduce everyone to Asian culture and art, the Asian Art Museum maintains several exhibits that showcase its collection of over 18,000 Asian artworks. These exhibits include the institution’s two ongoing exhibits, Liu Jianhua: Collected Letters and teamLab: Sketch Aquarium.

An interactive digital experience, Sketch Aquarium was designed by teamLab, an art collective founded in 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. The collective consists of architects, engineers, artists, programmers, and mathematicians who seek to find the connection between the natural world, art, and design. The collective’s other major exhibition, Continuity, is scheduled to open at the museum’s Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion in May 2020.

Sketch Aquarium is available at the Shriram Experiential Learning Center. Participants have the opportunity to color their own sea creatures. Using teamLab’s technology, each drawing is animated and projected onto the room’s walls. This creates a collaborative art piece that increases in size over time. The display is also interactive, and lets museum guests touch a virtual bag of food to “feed” the fish in the aquarium and interact with them as they swim.