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Kelly Cannon

MaP Community Research Partner at Independent

Practice

About Kelly Cannon

Kelly is a community builder and content developer, helping museums tell compelling and clear stories and build deeper relationships with audiences, both online and off. Previously, she co-led The Museum of Modern Art’s online Coursera courses, helping more than a million international learners find meaningful points of access to art and learn from and with a community of peers. She has also worked in educational technology, coaching museums and universities on online community building tactics, and building peer-to-peer learning communities for executives, artists, researchers, and others. She holds an MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA in the History of Art from Yale University. As a new-ish Californian, she’s taken to edible gardening with her dog, a basset hound named Professor.

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Museums as Progress is a community research and development firm. This profile shows the professional context Kelly Cannon brings to that community.