María del Carmen González

100 West 92nd Street, # 13E, New York, NY 10025

Telephone: (212) 496-0564
Cell Phone: (646) 413-2509
E-mail: mdcgonzalez@gmail.com

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)

2016-present Freelance Educator, School, Family, Access, Community and Adult Programs; including
professional development for teachers

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY)

2015-present Sackler Educator, School, Youth, Family, Adult Programs

Art as Education/Arte como Educación (New York, NY)

2013-present Co-Director
• Works with artists, educators and other professionals providing consultation for
domestic and international governments and cultural and educational institutions in
the designing and developing of educational partnerships, curricula, publications and
exhibitions in Latin America and the United States.

Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (New York, NY)

2005-2013 Curator of Education
• Designed educational programming and materials with international teams in cultural
institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic,
Mexico, the United States and Venezuela
• Founded, developed and directed the bilingual (English/Spanish) international arts-in-education
platform Piensa en arte/Think Art that serves hundreds of thousands of students
• Directed New York offices Foundation and Collection Internship Programs
• Authored bilingual (English/Spanish) curriculum manuals and educational materials based
on the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and other international collections

The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)

1989-2004 Coordinator of International Education Programs, Higher Education and Special US Projects;
Museum Educator; Coordinator of Elementary and Middle School Programs and Saturday Morning
High School Classes, Department of Education
• Founded and led the Museum’s Spanish language international education programs in
Argentina and Venezuela that included curriculum development with diverse museums.
• Co-designed, implemented and authored bilingual (Spanish/English) professional
development training program, educational materials and curriculum manuals on art history
based the Museum’s collection and others and education methodologies for museum educators,
classroom teachers, volunteers and administrators
• Lectured for the following departments and programs: Development, Membership,
Special Events, Group Visits, Public Programs, and Family Programs
• Originated professional development workshops for corporate employees focused on
strengthening communication, visual and analytical skills and the Museum’s collection
• Taught elementary, middle, high school and university students at the Museum and in schools

1998-2000 Education Liaison for MoMA 2000 Exhibition, “ModernStarts: People, Places, Things”
 (October 7, 1999-March 14, 2000)
• Co-edited and co-authored millennium exhibition publications
• Co-organized exhibition planning and design, including exhibition brochures,
website, wall texts, extended labels, etc., and public and educational programming

University of Rio Grande (Rio Grande, OH)

1995-2000 Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Department of Fine Arts
• Taught accredited courses for artists/educators pursuing Master in Education with a
concentration in Fine Arts. Courses: Functions of Art and Multiculturalism and Art

School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)

1994-1998 Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art Education
• Taught accredited courses on applying interdisciplinary methodologies as
related to the study of modern and contemporary art history and art education.
Courses: Art Education Seminar, Secondary Materials and Methods, Museum Education

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING AND LECTURING

Museums and other institutions:
Argentina: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández
Blanco, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Bellas Artes de La Boca Quinquela Martín, Buenos Aires
Chile: Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago; Centro de Extensión Cultura, Valparaíso; Casa del Arte José
Clemente Orozco, Cuidad Universitaria de Concepción
Costa Rica: Fundación Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica, Galería Nacional, Centro Costarricense de
la Ciencia y la Cultura, Museo de Arte Costarricense, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo; Museo
Nacional de Costa Rica; Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica; Centro Nacional de Didáctica, San José; Museo de
Arte Contemporáneo de Punta Islita, Guanacaste
Dominican Republic: Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Instituto Superior de Formación Docente
Salome Ureña, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Instituto Politécnico Femenino Nuestra
Sra. de las Mercedes, Santiago; Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Universidad Iberoamericana,
Colegio Comunidad Educativa Lux Mundi, Santo Domingo; Artemiches, Miches
El Salvador: Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador
Mexico: Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Moderno,
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City;
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Nuevo León; Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Querétaro
Spain: Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga
United States: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Center of Photography, The Asia Society,
The New York Historical Society, Central Park Historical Society, Covenant House, Masterworks, New York
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington; NJAIS, Morristown; Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich
Venezuela: Galería de Arte Nacional, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Museo de Arte Popular de Petare
Bárbaro Rivas, Museo Arturo Michelena; Museo Jacobo Borges; Instituto de Estudios Superiores de
Administración, Caracas; Museo de Arte Popular Salvador Valero, Trujillo; Centro de Artes de Maracaibo
Lía Bermúdez, Centro de Bellas Artes Ateneo, Maracaibo; Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Cuidad
Bolívar; Gobernación del Estado Bolívar Dirección de Museo, Puerto Ordaz
Colleges and universities:
Teachers College/Columbia University, The Bank Street College of Education, The College of New Rochelle,
School of Visual Arts, University Suffolk Community College, New York; University of Chicago, Chicago;
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericano, Mexico City; Universidad
Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela; University of Rio Grande, Ohio
Companies: Bodegas Chandon, Mendoza, Argentina; Chase Manhattan Bank, Elderplan Inc.,
The Holt Company, Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, New York.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
2015 Proyecto Arte como Educación, keynote speech, III Semana de la Educación Artística,
Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Santiago, Chile (May 11-15, 2015)
Art as Education, Conversations Across Cultures, Perspectives on Art Education
Symposium, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (May 28-30, 2015)
2014 Co-author of the teachers’ guide for the exhibition Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin
America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (June 13-October 1, 2014)
2012 La incomodidad de preguntar, Seminario Internacional Arte e Integración Social II,
Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 1-3, 2012)
What is modern art to you? Designing an Interactive Educational Exhibition and Thinking
Laboratory, American Association of Museums Annual Meeting (May 2, 2012)
¿Qué es el arte moderno para ti? ¿Llenar los ojos o abrir las mentes?,Programa en
Estudios Curatoriales, Maestría en Historia del Arte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
(May 14, 2012)
2011 ¿Arte según y para quién?, Seminario arte e inclusión social, Prácticas en América,
Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga, Spain (September 15-16, 2011)
El arte en las escuelas no es juego de niños, Errata, Revista de artes visuales,
Bogotá, Colombia, Número 4 abril 2011
Diseñando una exposición pedagógica ¿Qué es el arte moderno para ti? Seminario
de Educación 12mo Encuentro Internacional (23mo Nacional) de Educación y
Pensamiento, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras Ponce, Puerto Rico
(November 3-5, 2011)
2010 Co-author of the educator’s guide for the exhibition Desenhar no Espaço – Artistas
abstratos do Brasil e da Venezuela na Coleção Patricia Phelps de Cisneros / Drawing in
Space – Abstract artists from Brazil and Venezuela in the Colección Patricia Phelps de
Cisneros, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil (July 30th - October 31st, 2010)
Co-editor of the family guide for the exhibition Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South
and North America, 1920’s-50’s, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (February-May
23, 2010)
Educación y arte en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Mesa Redonda sobre Arte y
Educación, Departamento de Arte, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
(October 26, 2010)
2009 Piensa en arte, Simposio Internacional de Educacion en Museos, La Aportación Educativa
de los Museos a La Sociedad, organized by the Museo de Arte de Ponce, at the Universidad
de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico (May 13-14, 2009)
Editor of family and educator’s guide for the exhibition Acciones disolventes:
videoarte latinoamericano Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela (June 18-
August 16, 2009)
2008 Co-editor of the exhibition catalogue and co-author of the educator’s guide for the
exhibition Correspondences: Contemporary art from The Colección Patricia Phelps de
Cisneros, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts (February 4-
April 10, 2008)
Art Education in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Education Dialogue, Miami
Art Museum (May 1-3, 2008)
Piensa en arte, keynote speech, I Congreso Nacional de Arte y Educación, Colegio de
Licenciados y Profesores en Letras, Filosfía, Ciencias y Artes, San José, Costa Rica (June
4-6, 2008)
Co-author of the educator’s guide for the exhibition Geografías (in) visible. Arte
contemporáneo latinoamericano en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (June 26-

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2007 Co-author of the Piensa en arte/Think Art educator’s guides for Argentina, Costa Rica, the
Dominican Republic and the United States
Keynote Speech “Think Globally Act Locally: Guiding our Changing World” Sixth
Celebration of Inquiry Conference 2007 Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South
Carolina (February 14-17, 2007)
2006 Author of the educator’s guide for the exhibition Ecos y contrastes. Arte Contemporáneo en la
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, El
Salvador (April 4-June 11, 2006); Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa
Rica (December 7, 2005-February 19, 2006)
Author of Piensa en arte Think Art educator’s guide for the exhibition Cruce de miradas.
Visiones de América Latina. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo del Palacio
de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (August 2-October 22, 2006)
2004 Author of MoMA at El Museo Educators’ Guide published by The Museum of Modern Art
in conjunction with the exhibition MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art
from The Museum of Modern Art (March 4-July 25, 2004)
2003 Co-author of Looking at Matisse and Picasso exhibition catalogue for young audiences
in conjunction with the exhibition Matisse Picasso, Museum of Modern Art, New York
(February 13-May 19, 2003)
Building bridges of inclusion through the arts, A World for All Cultura Pacis, International
Conference on Social Inclusion, Trinity College, Carmarthen, Wales, UK (June 17-19,
2003)
1999 Co-author and co-editor of exhibition catalogue ModernStarts: People, Places, Things,
MoMA 2000, The Museum of Modern Art (October 7, 1999-March 14, 2000)
Co-author of exhibition catalogue Body Language, for ModernStarts: People, Places, Things”
(October 7, 1999-March 14, 2000)

EDUCATION
University of Rio Grande (Rio Grande, OH)
Master of Education with a concentration in Fine Arts
School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Majors: Fine Arts/Art Education (K-12)
Awards: Four-year full-tuition scholarship, Stacey Sussman Cavrell Memorial Traveling Fellowship

CONTINUING EDUCATION
Queen’s University (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
15th International Conference on Thinking (June 20-24, 2011)
Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Future of Learning (August 2-6, 2010)
Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Future of Learning (August 4-7, 2009)
Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
The Project Zero Classroom (July 27-August 1, 2009)
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)
I Congreso Internacional Los Museos en la Educación La Formación y los Educadores
(April 9-11, 2008)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: Fluent in Spanish