Rika Burnham
Lecturer
A leading theorist and practitioner of art museum gallery teaching, Rika Burnham, Lecturer, previously served as Head of Education at the Frick Collection in New York, Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and and project director for the Teaching Institute for Museum Educators/TIME at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An influential author in her field, her publications include Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience (Getty, 2011), which won a PROSE Award, as well as several essays on museum education (the International Journal of Education and the Arts, 2023; National Gallery of Australia, 2015; Barnes Foundation, 2015; and SITE Santa Fe, 2015) and a catalogue essay in Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009). Burnham was awarded the degree of Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014, twice named a Getty Museum Scholar, in 2002 and 2018, and appointed a Distinguished Fellow of the National Art Education Association in 2024.
Education
- B.A., Harvard University
Publications
- Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience (Getty, 2011), co-authored with Elliott Kai-Kee