1. STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math at the High Museum of Art Docent-Led Tour for Elementary School Students *5th grade will follow middle school STEAM tour

2. What is S.T.E.A.M. and who came up with it?
Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math
John Madea, current President of RISD & a leader in transforming STEM to STEAM
America is at a critical juncture in defining its economic future…art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st century in the same way that science and technology did in the last century, and the STEAM movement is an opportunity for America to sustain its role as innovator of the world.
- John Madea

3. What’s the Big Idea of this tour and workshop?
Creative Problem-Solving
STEAM Tour and Workshop Purpose
Students will use the High’s collections as evidence of creative problem solving, learning directly from the objects about how artists create innovative solutions to complex problems.
Essential Question
How is an artist similar to a scientist?
Similarities between artists and scientists:
 Problem Solvers- explore ideas from different points of views
 Creative Thinkers- imagine new ideas and try new things
 Hands-On Learners- learn by investigating with tools, objects, and
materials 

4. The docent-led tour is organized into four categories:
Resources and Nature – how did/do artists use the world around them to create works of art?
Design and Structure – how did/do artists use design and architecture to solve problems in their works of art?
Light and Color – how did/do artists use light and color theory to create works of art?
Shapes and Patterns – how did/do artists use one-point, two-point, atmospheric, etc. perspective to create works of art?

5. Resources and Nature

6. Pioneers of the Woods, California. ca. 1863
Albert Bierstadt
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Framed: 27 3/4 x 35 inches

7. Two Hummingbirds with an Orchid. 1875
Martin Johnson Heade
Oil on canvas
17 9/16 x 27 1/2 inches

8. Untitled (#3-85). 1985
Deborah Butterfield
Burned and crushed steel and barbed wire
73 x 99 x 45 inches

9. A Bit of the Roman Aqueduct. 1852 George Inness
Oil on canvas
39 x 53 9/16 inches

10. Houses of Parliament in the Fog. 1903
Claude Monet
Oil on Canvas
23 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches

11. Design and Structure

12. You Can't Lay Down Your Memory, designed 1991, made 2008
Tejo Remy, Distributed by Droog Design
Maple, various preexisting drawers, furniture mover's strap of jute and metal

13. Blo-Void I, 2006
Ron Arad
Mirror-polished aluminum alloy and anodized woven-aluminum mesh
40 x 80 x 17 inches

14. Double Bound Circle. 1971
Jackie Winsor
Hemp
16 x 61 x 61 inches

15. Crochet Chair (prototype), 2006
Marcel Wanders
Crocheted fiber and epoxy resin

16. Taago. 2006
El Anatsui
Aluminum and copper wire
82 x 124 inches

17. Richard Meir (architect)

18. Light and Color

19. October in the Catskills. 1879
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Oil on canvas
44 x 34 1/4 inches

20. Winter Landscape
Alex Katz
Oil on linen
120 x 240 inches

21. Farm Yard. 1849
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches

22. Fourth of July Parade. ca. 1886
Alfred Cornelius Howland
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 1/16 inches

23. Untitled. 2010
Anish Kapoor
Stainless steel

24. Shapes and Patterns

25. House III, 1997 (fabricated 2002)
Roy Lichtenstein
Painted and fabricated aluminum
157 x 210 x 60 inches

26. Purissima. 1927
Joseph Stella
Oil on canvas
76 x 57 inches

27. Apples and Oranges. 1986
Judy Pfaff
Plastic laminates, painted steel, wood
113 x 142 x 72 inches

28. Gerhard Richter. 2002
879-1 Sieben Stehende Scheiben
Glass and steel
125 1/4 x 92 1/4 x 63 inches

29. Meridian. 1978 Betty Bierne Parsons
Oil on wood
37 x 22 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches