Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis, MA, CMS

Erin is an experienced museum educator and Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitator specializing in adult learning, innovative program development, and cross-discipline meaning-making.

Erin spent 15 years in the art and museum worlds, working for four different cultural institutions in both Alabama and Massachusetts. From a nationally-recognized gallery space serving inner city youth to a statewide art nonprofit serving people with disabilities to a photography center on a university campus to a national landmark serving visitors from around the country and the world, these organizations share commonalities in their missions: harnessing the power of arts and culture to serve communities through expression and action.

Born out of these experiences, Erin’s personal mission is to foster connections through visual art and material culture so that people operate from a place of curiosity, observation, and consideration with themselves and each other. 

Erin received her BA from the University of Virginia in art history and archaeology, her MA from the University of Alabama in American studies, and her Certificate in Museum Studies/Education from Tufts University. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Greater Boston Museum Educators Roundtable and as the Education Professional Affinity Group Co-Chair for the New England Museum Association.

Since 2008, Erin has also produced and led arts-in-medicine programs for a variety of audiences with her husband, Christopher Yuskaitis, a physician-scientist. They’ve presented gallery talks and lectures everywhere from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to the German International School to Vilnius University School of Medicine in Lithuania. He covers the brain, she covers the art. Together, they deepen people's understanding of their own experiences of visual art.

CORE VALUES: engagement | creativity | strength | organization