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These interdisciplinary programs explore topics
in depth, over several sessions at the museum
and at your school. Our popular Studio-Centered
School Museum Project topics are listed below.
This year we add a new format, Gallery-Centered
School
Museum Projects.
Gallery-Centered School/Museum Projects
Available for students in fifth grade and above
This new program is an invitation to teachers to work in tandem with museum staff to design a customized multi-session program that meets specific curricular goals. This year we will focus on integrating technology and writing across the curriculum. Inspired by Carnegie Museum of Art’s permanent collection or temporary exhibitions, these projects can include two or more museum visits and outreach sessions in your school to inspire creative verbal and written responses to art. Past project details will soon be available. Check back soon.
Cost is determined by number of students and visits scheduled.
Studio-Centered School/Museum Projects
Available for students in first through sixth grades
Monday: two-hour session in your classroom conducted by the museum’s teaching artists (scheduled to fit your school day), Tuesday and Wednesday: gallery-studio experience at the museum (10:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m.).
Students explore a theme in depth in the school classroom, museum galleries, and children’s studio in this three-day program conducted by teaching artists. Select from the following interdisciplinary themes designed to inspire creative thinking and art-making with applications across the curriculum.
$595/class, 35 students maximum
Architecture: Problem-Solving
Forms and Design
Students explore the creative process of architecture through gallery discussions and the development of their own architectural drawings and models. The museum’s world-renowned collection of life-sized casts of ancient and medieval architectural monuments in the Hall of Architecture provides insight on the relationship between form and function, and structural and decorative design. Students learn architectural vocabulary, create drawings for their own structures, and translate their designs in three-dimensional models. The uses of measurement and problem-solving are integral to the construction process.
Presenting Pittsburgh: Past
and Present
Views of Pittsburgh as seen through the eyes of Pittsburgh artists offer a unique way to learn about the city’s history and its evolving industrial landscape. Students compare and contrast African-American artist Romare Bearden’s collage of his childhood home near the steel mills in Lawrenceville with self-taught artist John Kane’s paintings of Pittsburgh neighborhoods and European immigrant Aaron Gorson’s dramatic nocturnal views of rivers and mills. Students create personal multimedia cityscapes using painting, printmaking, and collage.
Painting Portraits in Time
Portraiture can capture both a physical likeness and less tangible aspects of identity, such as personality, character, and social status. Direct observation and interpretive discussion of pose, facial expression, clothing, and setting in paintings from the 15th century to the present prepare students to create portraits of real or imagined individuals in the studio. They will establish a specific identity and context
for their portrait subject while experimenting with modeling, proportion, composition, and color to create realistic or expressive representations.
Studying Symbols and Stories
in Art
Civilizations throughout time and across the globe have preserved and communicated cultural values and traditions through symbols and myths. Gallery discussion and sketching of sculpture and architectural fragments in the museum’s collection from Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India inspire students to develop their own sets of symbols and narratives and to communicate their mythologies in painted and sculpted relief panels and sculpture-in-the-round.
Mining the Magnificent Middle Ages
Medieval objects—from an exquisite miniature ivory to a life-sized plaster cast of a church facade—provide the context for investigating life in Europe in the Middle Ages. Students discover how symbols were essential elements in the elaborate stories communicated through paint, stone, wood, and ivory to those who could not read. They learn about the lives of apprentices and artisans as they try their hand at stone carving, metal embossing, and glass painting in independent projects and group work modeled on the Medieval guild system.
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