Coffee with a Curator
February 5 @ 10:30am – 11:30am
Join us for this month’s installment of our Coffee with a Curator series, where Museum staff or invited guests speak on a range of Salvador Dalí-inspired topics.
This month’s lecture will feature Dr. Kimberly Macuare, Director of Education and Co-Director of Innovation Labs at The Dalí, who will explore Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a transformative approach to looking at and discussing art that has expanded far beyond the walls of museums. Through guided discussions centered on carefully chosen artworks, VTS encourages participants to develop observational skills, think critically, and articulate their ideas. Initially designed as a tool for engaging museum visitors, VTS has found remarkable applications in fields as diverse as education, medicine, and business.
Discover how VTS is being used in classrooms to foster empathy and collaboration, in medical schools to enhance diagnostic skills, and in corporate boardrooms to boost creative problem-solving and team dynamics. This engaging presentation will demonstrate how learning to look closely at art can unlock valuable skills for any setting.
Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater (registration required), with overflow seating available in the Raymond James Community Room or live on YouTube (link below).
Register to attend in person at the link below. This event is free, with limited capacity. An event ticket is required for entry. Gallery access is not included.
To watch the live stream from home, click below at the time of the program:
Dr. Kimberly Macuare, Director of Education and Co-Director of Innovation Labs at The Dalí, is an experienced educator, curriculum designer and facilitator. For over 20 years, she has designed world-class learning experiences—college courses, workshops, leadership retreats, team building sessions, and keynote presentations—and, most recently, has been responsible for the award-winning curriculum of creativity and innovation workshops and offerings at The Innovation Labs at The Dalí. In her role at The Dalí, she has helped a wide range of organizations, from local nonprofits CASA and Community Foundation of Tampa Bay to educational institutions University of South Florida and Florida Poly to Fortune 100 companies Bank of America and IBM, build their innovation capacities by developing creativity-focused mindsets and learning key creative problem-solving skills.
In addition to supporting external clients, she also takes an active role in innovative projects and initiatives across The Dalí Museum organization, including creating new programs for museum audiences and leading all-staff creative thinking and problem-solving projects.
She has extensive experience in arts-based creativity training and is a certified trainer of leading research-based creativity and innovation tools FourSight Mindset and Toolset as well as a certified facilitator of LEGO® Serious Play®. She also teaches a creativity course in the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. Kim holds a BA in English from the University of Cincinnati, an MA in English from The Ohio State University and a PhD in English with a specialization in medieval literature and economics from The Ohio State University.
