Selections from the USC PAM Teen Ambassadors
This digital zine is the culminating project of the USC PAM Teen Ambassadors 2023 cohort.
To spark personal stories and new ways for USC PAM’s Teen Ambassadors to engage in the museum’s permanent collection, the creative collective Narrated Objects led them in a series of exploratory, sensory-themed writing workshops. Together we focused on the process of looking at, thinking about, and making art—with the goal to reimagine our interactions with art objects. These are a few of the questions we posed:
- What do you see, smell, hear, and feel in the museum?
- What artwork attracts you and why?
- What is one question you’d like to ask the object?
Each ambassador selected an object from the permanent collection to discuss, and then used the same observational skills and creative instincts from the workshop at home. During the next workshop, the ambassadors chose a personal object to share with their peers, what it meant to them, and investigated the possible connections between their home object and the museum piece. These pages share the ambassadors’ varied reflections on both, including what they learned and created in the process.