Marie Clapot

• Foster inclusive design practices in cultural institutions through strategic partnerships with key industry players & events.
• Develop comprehensive business plans, outlining long-term goals and actionable steps toward success.
• Direct large-scale projects from inception to completion on time/budget with strict adherence to quality standards.
• Develop customized solutions in collaboration with clients based on a deep understanding of their content, needs and expectations.
• Develop and implement marketing strategies

One of two managerial positions focused on developing and overseeing inclusive programs and museum-wide accessibility initiatives for the Met’s 7 million annual visitors.

• Provide oversight of over 300 programs, partnerships and museum-wide initiatives, including articulating goals and strategies, policies, budgets and evaluation to enhance accessibility for visitors across the Museum's buildings, collection, exhibitions, programs, website, and other resources
• Collaborate with all departments from Digital to the DEIA office to set the highest standards of Accessibility including Accessibility & Safety Guidelines for Exhibition Design, Anti-ableism and Accessibility Trainings and Multisensory Strategies Trainings
• Provide guidance to curators, educators and other content developers on incorporating representations and narratives of disability in museum interpretation, programs and scholarship
• Foster wellbeing through the arts through partnerships and Your Met Art Box
• Develop inclusive strategies and resources to increase participation of disabled visitors in Adult, Family, Teen and School programs including a Social Emotional Learning Through Art curriculum
• Work closely with curators, conservators and scientists on designing scent-based experiences in programs and unveiling olfactory narratives in interpretation
• Responsible for one full-time staff, one full-time graduate intern, 20 teaching artists and over 30 volunteers including their recruitment, goals setting, evaluation, and mentoring
• Manage a $500,000 budget and work closely with colleagues in Development to secure funding, including writing grant narratives, tracking grant progress, liaising with funders, and reporting
• Share expertise and ideas nationally and internationally to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and lead the field of arts accessibility forward
• Founder & co-convener of The Met Disabilities-Employee Resource Group.

• Responsible for the vision and management of the Lab for Learning
• Assisted over 1,000 New York City youth with disabilities (K-12) annually to become independent and successful adults by designing, coordinating and teaching Accessible & Inclusive Social Skills Programs Through the Arts
• Recruited and managed a team of 10 teaching artists as well as interns and volunteers
• Developed and implemented multimodal learning approaches including tactile graphics and verbal descriptions
• Sought and maintained new partnerships with schools, museums, and other community agencies
• Coordinated the International Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month including webinars on accessibility and inclusion for cultural institutions
• Conducted U.S and International Museum Training including Disability Awareness, verbal description and multi-sensory strategies
• Co-convened The Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Developed and implemented touch and verbal description tours working closely with the museum staff and the disability community
• Established and managed the Arts Access Committee including museum staff, community agencies, and the disability community
• Designed a conceptual model for an indoor and outdoor navigation system for students who are blind or partially sighted
• Organized a Community & Adaptive Technology Fair for IU students and Bloomington city
• Created and lead support groups for adults who are blind or partially sighted
• Developed a guide of accessible cultural institutions for the City of Bloomington
• Evaluated adaptive technology for students with disabilities including Screen Reader Software: Kurzweil 3000, Read&Write, and Inspiration.