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To provide a unique interpretive context showcasing art that cultivates environmental awareness and stimulates social engagement in conservation.
The Natural World Museum is a cultural institution dedicated to showcasing educational art exhibitions that cultivate environmental awareness and provide new perspectives that stimulate social engagement in conservation. NWM has convened a team of leaders in museum management, environmental education, fine arts, sustainable architecture, and other disciplines to bring this vision to realization in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our team has designed a permanent and lasting forum to provide a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary understanding of how art inspired by nature serves as a catalyst for cultural evolution, and empowers people to make informed decisions about protecting our endangered planet. While we are working on securing a permanent site in San Francisco, in June we will be hosting a month long series of exhibitions as the Head Curator of Environmental Art Programs for the United Nations World Environment Day 2005. Also in 2005, we will continue to grow our successful Planet Art educational outreach program for youth, in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots Program. Together, we help empower educators to promote a higher level of environmental consciousness and stewardship to the next generation, and serve hundreds of Bay Area youth each year.
 Mia Hanak, Founding Executive Director
Mia Hanak has been nominated as the “Iconic Museum Leader of the Next Generation” by the American Association of Museums and the Getty Leadership Institute. The combination of her well rounded academic background, professional experience, and worldly perspective, tied in with being a thirty year old woman in a leadership position, brings a new spark to the museum industry. Mia Hanak has been working in the museum industry for over ten years. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1996 with degrees in Art History and in Cultural Anthropology and from Tufts University in Medford, Mass. in 2001 with a degree in Museum Studies, with an emphasis on Museum Management and Exhibition Design. Ms. Hanak sparked her interest in museums, natural history, and environmental art through exhibitions and events she planned and executed while working at the UCSB Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the Revolving Museum in Boston, and while planning world-class exhibitions at art galleries for high caliber wildlife artists such as Robert Bateman and Carl Brenders. Mia Hanak is also currently writing an adventurous novel, a story about her solo travels through Africa, India, Oceana, Europe, and the Middle East which spurred her to take action in protecting diminishing natural habitats. With her passion and knowledge of cultures, art, and the environment, Mia Hanak brings a strong foundation to the Natural World Museum, a vision she created with the organizations’ Founding Chairman, Richard V. Smith.
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