Literacy through
Heritage Workshop
Lon Dubinsky,
Workshop Leader
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Lon Dubinsky's principal interest is in developing collaborations
between museums and various community organizations. He initiated and is
coordinator of "Reading
The Museum," the literacy program of the Canadian
Museums Association and is the consultant for "Writing
Home," a project that links museums, elementary schools, writers and
visual artists in Alberta. He is a
Research Associate of the Kamloops
Art Gallery and co-director of "The Cultural Future of Small
Cities," a three-year initiative that involves the gallery, the University
College of the Cariboo and seven other community |
He has also done program development and review for other nonprofit
organizations and agencies, such as the Canada
Council, Conference
Board of Canada, Samuel
and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, Site
Santa Fe and Whyte
Museum of the Canadian Rockies. He received his Ph.D. in
Communications from McGill University and teaches part-time in the Studio
and MFA programs of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
He writes and lectures about arts and literacy education,
contemporary art,
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