Craig Langlois

Experience

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  Great Neck Center for the Visual Arts

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Instructor

  Taught adult and children’s ceramic & sculpture classes Organized off-site Raku intensives for adult students at Long Island University

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  Long Island University

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Adjunct Professor

  Professor of Visual Art: Art31: Beginning Ceramics, Art 32: Advanced Ceramics & Firing Techniques, Art101: Art Appreciation Advisor to BFA & MFA candidates

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  The Heckscher Museum of Art

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Coordinator of Public Programs & Education

  Managed all aspects of programming; raised program attendance 35%Trained docents assisting with public & educational programsDeveloped community partnerships to host programming off-site during year long restoration

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  Berkshire Museum

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2022

  Responsible for the management and integration of 5 departments to create a holistic, mission-driven, engaging multi-generational visitor experience for 80,000-100,000 patrons annually.Oversee a staff of 13 full time and 6 part-time seasonal employees with an operating budget of $2.8 million.Consistently create between 12,000 and 15,000 square feet of new exhibition experiences annually through a mixture of museum designed and rented exhibitions.Conceived, designed, built, tested, and implemented a new program of 30 Mobile Museum Units or MoMU to rotate through educational and community locations throughout the Berkshire region. Create, market, manage & implement 30,000 plus educational experiences for students & teachers from birth through graduate school. 200% year over year growth in 12 years and currently sustaining service to over 50 schools in four states with in museum or in school programming. Designed, published & distributed In Kindergarten, an interactive story to help families with kindergarten transition. Current distribution in 3 states expanding to 8 in 2022. Maintain consistent active & passive public programming: 500 plus public programs a year, 8 new "ongoing" program threads.Board liaison for Facilities and Collections sub committees. Show less Developed a series of free community nights: Family Literacy Pajama Night, Child Directed Play, Summer Science & Welcome to Kindergarten.Developed Ten Days of Play, ten days of child-directed play; highest general attendance 1O days in the Museum's operating year.Secured grant funding for the Museum's 2 Imagination Playground to expand creative play work with families and schools.Designed concept & materials for Museum's Word of the Day & Book of the Week Calendars; free to all Berkshire County students.Redesigned & expanded after school programming; inherited 3 programs in 2 schools & built to 11 programs in 10 schools.Served as the first PechaKucha organizer, bringing the global 20x20 format to Western Massachusetts.Led technology upgrade bringing wifi and mobile education tech to the Museum. Show less

  • Interim Co-Executive Director

    Jan 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Chief Experience Officer

    Jan 2016 - Oct 2022

  • Director of Education & Public Programs

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016

  • Education and Public Program Manager

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2012

  • Public Program Coordinator

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010
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  Pittsfield Public Schools

  Sept 2022 - now

  • Assistant Principal of Teaching and Learning

    Sept 2024 - now

  • Equity of Learning District Data Coordinator

    Sept 2022 - Oct 2024