Lisa Falk
Materials and Program Examples

Through Women’s Eyes: Southeast Asian American Women’s Experiences
a web presentation of an oral history and photography documentary, includes an overview slide show.

Masks of Mexico Audio Tour,
podcast episodes, transcript, flyers, and news articles about this award-winning podcast project.

Interviews with Native Artists
podcast episodes with Native American potters, jewelers and other artists, transcripts

Paintings and Stories: Poetry Inspired by the Avery Collection
was also published as a chap book. These works by 5th and 8th graders are the result of a 5-part cultural literacy program directed by Lisa Falk with award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui.

Saguaro Harvesting Traditions of the Tohono O’odham
these webpages were based on a presentation at the 2003 Summer Solstice Celebration and include a streamed video of a demonstration of saguaro harvesting by Tohono O'odham tradition bearer Stella Tucker.

Navajo Weaving exhibition web activities:

1. From Sheep to Textile
2. Designing Navajo Rug

Bermuda Connections: Cultural Resource Guide for Classrooms
with links to PDFs of the kit contents. Falk wrote the 11 chapter Handbook.

Smithsonian Office of Folklife and Cultural Heritage newsletter (PDF *)
See p. 6 article about Bermuda Connections: Cultural Resource Guide for Classrooms kit by project director Dr. Diana N'diaye.

Programs are important for a museum to offer. They attract media attention and audiences to the museum. They offer varied interpretations and further exploration of exhibition topics. Creativity and collaboration make programs shine, but so does good staff. With limited staff resources, I rely on student employees and volunteers to help produce the programs. They add new ideas and are enthusiastic, but often have schedule conflicts and generally are only here for a semester or two, which means constantly training new helpers. Sometimes grant funding allows me to hire a staff position which enables us to do more.

Explore these pages for samples of family, school and adult programs.

Family (intergenerational) Programs

Culture Craft Saturday: Family Fun Series
(includes links to resources such as treasure hunts and bibliographies)

Marking the Solstice: A Multicultural Celebration

School Programs

Fieldtrip programs, teacher institute, youth summer camp programs.

Adult Programs

Film series, lectures, symposia, workshops, museum interpreters.