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Developing Lessons from Exhibits Wendy Johnson
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Introduction How to create studio art lessons based on gallery exhibits. Determining all the factors to help develop the lesson –Age Appropriateness –Materials –Important concepts of the exhibit –Allotted Time
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Factors: Age Levels Determining what the students are capable of is very important –if they are younger and not very coordinated with scissors, then a project that involves a lot of intricate cutting doesn’t make sense. Materials are also going to be decided with age levels
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Factors: Materials Materials are not just based on age levels Always test out materials before the lesson –then you have pre-made examples and most of the kinks are worked out of the lesson beforehand Sometimes the materials you have in mind end up failing and last minute changes are needed
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Factors: Concept Figure out what the most important concept is: –What idea/knowledge to you want your students to remember the most? –There should be several small ideas and one large concept that is emphasized –What state goals are you going to meet with this concept? –How will you teach this concept?
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Factors: Allotted Time Determining how the allotted time will be used is very important How long will the review be? How long will the demonstration be? How much time is needed for clean-up? Is it absolutely necessary to be finished in the allotted time?
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The Exhibit Visuals are key –Students are seeing artwork that is new to them and concepts are more easily understood with the use of visuals –Return to one concept continually to reinforce the ideas –Visuals should be used during the tour and the lesson
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The Exhibit Reviewing concepts after the tour –Reinforces that concept again –The tour should be more of a lecture with a few responses –The review should be all question and answer Materials should be introduced immediately after with a quick discussion of how they relate to the tour
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Docent Tours and Studio Lessons
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Moche Portrait Vessels Exhibit: Pre-Columbian Central American Artworks Materials: air-dry clay, juice containers, newspaper, clay tools Process: Review cultures, specifically Moche and their portrait vessels –Introduce facial proportions (interactive visuals) –Discuss self-portraits –Introduce materials –Step-by-step project of creating the vessels
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Moche Portrait Vessels
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Armin Mersmann Exhibit: Armin Mersmann Materials: 4 Drawing pencils, erasers, scissors, glue, drawing paper, texture plates, found objects, images of eyes Process: Review Armin Mersmann –Discuss his use of the number 3 –Discuss the themes of humans and nature –Discuss drawing pencils –Discuss texture/frottage –3 part project: draw a human eye, a personal object and an object in nature; create a frottage texture on separate paper; cut out and glue 3 drawings onto textured paper
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Armin Mersmann
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Fér Decoupé Exhibit: Fer Decoupe: Haitian Steel Drum Sculptures Materials: 12 x 18” tag board, orange/brown tempera paint, sponges, scissors Procedure: Review Haitian steelworks and process –Discuss symmetry and asymmetry –Discuss design –Demonstrate how to cut out the design –Discuss and demonstrate how to sponge paint to make it look like the steelworks
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Fér Decoupé
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Sample Exhibit and Studio Lesson Georgia O’Keeffe Artworks presented: –The Red Hills, Grey Sky –Red Poppy –Red Canna –Narcissa’s Last Orchid –Grey Line with Black, Blue and Yellow
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The Red Canna The Red PoppyGrey Line with Black, Blue and Yellow Narcissa’s Last Orchid The Red Hills, Grey Sky
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Sample Exhibit and Studio Lesson Pablo Picasso Artworks presented: –The Old Guitarist –The Three Musicians – The Red Armchair –The Kiss –Self-Portrait
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Self-PortraitThe Red ArmchairThe Old Guitarist The Three MusiciansThe Kiss
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Conclusion There are many important factors that NEED to be considered when developing a lesson; time, age, materials, concepts, etc. Preparation is always key to a successful lesson.
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