I develop and deliver programs to diverse audiences in museum galleries and classrooms

 
 
Collage of British paintings by J. M. W. Turner, Dame Laura Knight, Vanessa Bell, Thomas Lawrence and James McNeil Whistler

ADULT LEARNING COURSES

  • OSHER, University of Utah (“British Art from the Royal Academy to Modernism”)

 
Kathleen Leitao facilitating discussion of Edward Hopper’s painting, Western Motel, with ESL students at Mercy Learning Center, Bridgeport, CT

ESL in the Galleries

  • Mercy Learning Center (Bridgeport, CT)

  • English Language Institute, Sacred Heart University

 
Catherine Leitao (Kathleen Leitao) with Upward Bound students from Bridgeport, CT discussing a Winslow Homer painting in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

High School Enrichment

  • Upward Bound summer program at Fairfield University

  • Upward Bound school year program at Fairfield University

 
Brochure photo for the Exploring Artism Program, a family autism program

Special Needs/Museum Access

  • St. Catherine Center for Special Needs Program (Fairfield, CT)

  • Family Autism Program at Yale Center for British Art

Medical professionals examining J.M.W. Turner’s masterpiece, the Dort Packet-boat from Rotterdam Becalmed, during a visual observation skills session

Visual Observation Skills for Medical Professionals

  • Graduate School of Nursing at Fairfield University

  • Yale Medical School, Graduate School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Program

  • Quinnipiac Medical School

Photo of a gallery room with paintings and sculptures in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Executive Leaders 

  • Wharton Executive Leadership Program (“Skill Building: Raising Your EQ”) - Visual Observation and Emotional Intelligence sessions in the galleries at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

 
Postcard mailer with dates for Family Day programs created by Kathleen Leitao

Museum Family Days 

  • Fairfield University Art Museum

Please contact me for more information about developing or delivering programs for classrooms, galleries or other venues.