She said she hopes to bring that experience to her new position, expanding the museum’s outreach to families in homeless shelters, for example, affordable housing residents and incarcerated parents. “It’s definitely a challenging time for our country and for New York,” Ms. Hefferren said. “But it also just makes the need for the Children’s Museum that much more apparent.”
I am very excited to see the new initiatives arts organizations will enact in result of how different communities are being effected because of the pandemic and social climate in the U.S. I really enjoy that Ms. Heffernen is using the uncertainty to argue that there is more need than ever for the Children's Museum. I am very curious to see how leaders in the arts industry will create opportunity and enthusiasm moving forward in our current climate.