Drs. Rosalie Burns and Herbert I. Goldberg Support the Teen Media Program

Looking closely with the aid of new technologies and informed minds comes naturally to Drs. Rosalie Burns and Herbert I. Goldberg. Indeed, it has been the core of their professional, personal, and philanthropic lives. Rosalie Burns Goldberg is a neurologist—the first woman in the United States to chair a medical school department of neurology (at the former Medical College of Pennsylvania); Herbert Goldberg is a radiologist with a subspecialty in diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology. He has served hospitals throughout Philadelphia and is currently a Professor Emeritus of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Goldbergs have been members of the Museum since 1992 and Patrons since 2005. They and their family are leading supporters of the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York, where education in visual literacy for youth is a major undertaking, and they have generously underwritten the Summer Teen Media Program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Teen Media Program is one of a roster of innovative programs for teens presented by the Museum which builds visual literacy and life skills among some twenty at-risk young people by engaging them with the Museum's permanent collections and providing hands-on training in media arts, including film, video, and digital technologies. By the six-week program's end, students have developed individual portfolios of their work, including a publicly presented project--and the skills and experience for a creative career.

Rosalie Goldberg said, "I was very impressed with the program's scope and quality. The young people learn not only about visual literacy and the making of recorded images, but also how to organize and manage a project--how to make your way." Herbert Goldberg underscored the importance of visual literacy and skills: "Today, almost everything is visual and on a screen, not only on television and movie screens but on computers, phones--everywhere! You have to understand the image--what it's saying, how it's saying it, and who created the image and why. Teenagers are much better off when they understand this context and subtext, and better still if they know how to create their own visual images--done just right, as taught in the Museum's Teen Media Program."

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