LAURA E. HEATH-STOUT
  • Contact & CV
  • Research
    • Equity & Knowledge Production
    • Archaeology & Disability
    • Tlaxcalan Pottery
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Archaeology
    • Teaching Writing
    • Teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts

Teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

From 2016–2019, I worked in the education department at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, educating visitors about ceramics, Mesoamerican history, foodways in the past, museum ethics, and intersectional feminism.

 Looking Together Course Topics (2019)

  • A History of Mexican Art
  • Pottery Around the World
  • Women Depicting Women

Gallery Talk Subjects (2016–2017)

  • Globalization on the Dining Room Table: American Dishes from the Age of Exploration to the Present
  • From the Olmecs to Frida Kahlo: A Brief History of Mexican Art
  • Hot Drinks: Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, and Posset Vessels at the MFA
  • ​Painted Pots: Greek, Maya, and Chinese Ceramic Decoration Techniques
  • Black History at the MFA
  • Women Don't Have to be Naked to Get into the MFA
  • How did THIS Get Here?
  • ​Athena Through the Ages

 Spotlight Talk Subjects (2017–2019)

  • Multiracial Families in Colonial Mexico
  • John Singer Sargent's Black Atlas
  • Porcelain Patriotism: The Society of the Cincinnati
  • Myths and Histories in the Maya Calendar
  • Catalan Frescoes, Catalan Nationalism
  • Pharaoh Menkaura's Long Distance Relationship
  • Teatime with Mary Cassatt
  • Frida Kahlo's Pride, Politics, and Patriotism
  • Imitating China in Mexico
  • The Queer History of the Boston Marriage
  • Manifest Destiny and Mississippian Pottery
  • Feeding Disabled Children in Ancient Greece
  • Spinning Plates: Reimagining Willow Pattern China
  • Burning Incense for the Gods and the Dead
  • Silver Straws: Yerba Mate in Colonial South America
  • Aphrodite and Helen: Women of the Trojan War
  • Knotted Cords and Memories; Inka Khipus
  • Graciela Iturbide: Documenting Frida Kahlo
  • Passover Plates from Delft
  • The Ladylike Cyclist
  • ​Lavinia Fontana: Woman Renaissance Painter
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  • Contact & CV
  • Research
    • Equity & Knowledge Production
    • Archaeology & Disability
    • Tlaxcalan Pottery
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Archaeology
    • Teaching Writing
    • Teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts