To start the week, I met with Krista Pearson, the manager of community arts, from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts online. She showed me a potential schedule of opportunities I could have at the MIA and familiarized me with some of the events happening there. Crystal Price, who also helps with the community arts, hopped on to give me information about the first event I could help with called the Kite Festival. On the day of the event, I made the trek to Lake Harriet where the MIA had a booth with teaching artists, Gustavo and Madeline. For the event, I was able to help them out by handing out information on the MIA and inspiring people to send out postcards as an activity. As chilly as it was outside, it was super exciting to meet up with two teaching artists in the area to learn more about what they do. I was able to witness their enthusiasm when visitors came and learn how they came to teach at the MIA. Madeline told me she never expected to go into the teaching artist field and studied something entirely different in college. She informed me that after she got her first gig teaching, with word of mouth, she was able to get more opportunities. Part of me felt great comfort in the idea that the arts in the community are so connective and supportive, that finding events and programs to teach at won’t be so strenuous. Meanwhile, Gustavo gave me some wonderful insight on how to go about making an art project for the MIA. He mentioned that it helps to look at one piece of art at the museum and think about how you can use it to teach 7-8-year-olds and how that would differ for 14-18-year-olds. This is such a simple tip, but it puts things in perspective for me how different age groups are at different stages of development. It helps me be put back into the mindset of a certain age group to know what I would understand and use that to base a project around. Overall, the whole week with the zoom meeting and the Kite Festival was a great way to dip my toes (my frozen toes) into the water to learn more about the MIA and their teaching artists.