Governor’s award
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Former Emporian Kathrine Walker Schlageck, senior educator at Kansas State University’s Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, will receive the Governor’s Arts Award for arts in education during an awards ceremony today. Schlageck has been with the Beach Museum of Art since before its official opening in 1996 and has 23 years of museum education and curriculum development experience in both art and history museums.
At the Beach Museum, she creates programming for school children, teachers, the elderly and other museum patrons. Her programs have been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kansas Department of Education and the Kansas Arts Commission. She was previously honored as Museum Education Art Educator of the Year and the Western Division Museum Education Art Educator of the Year. She is the daughter of Paul David and Barbara White Walker of Emporia.