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These workshops center on the creative process. Original works of art inspire observation and discussion in the galleries and art-making projects in the studio led by teaching artists. Choose from four interdisciplinary themes that strengthen skills and learning across the curriculum. Options are tailored to teachers’ objectives, classroom curriculums and students’ prior art experience. Topics focus on the elements and principles of art defined by Pennsylvania Standards for the Arts and Humanities; Mathematics; and Reading, Speaking, and Listening.
Thursdays or Fridays, 10:10 a.m.–12:10 p.m.
$9/student
Art in Three Dimensions: The Human Figure
Available for students in all grades
Proportion, volume, pose, gesture, expression—these elements can transform lifeless mounds of clay into expressive human figures. In the galleries, students analyze and sketch realistic and abstract figurative sculpture from a range of cultures and time periods. In the studio, they learn to translate armatures and clay into three-dimensional forms that occupy space, and to explore personal expression through pose, texture, gesture, and detail.
Artists’ Choices: The Creative Process
Available for students in all grades
Finished works of art are the combined result of the artist’s conscious choices, experimentation, and a bit of chance. Students consider a variety of paintings in the galleries, making observations about the impact of artists’ choices—composition, materials, and style—on the work’s aesthetic effect and on viewers’ interpretations. Each student selects an artwork for an in-depth investigation and experiments with the decision-making process by varying its imagery, technique, composition, and materials to create unique works of art.
Geometry, Proportion, and Ratio: Connections between Art and Math
Available for students in all grades
Students discover interrelationships between art and mathematics through objects in the galleries and hands-on explorations. They recognize and analyze the use of geometry, proportion, ratio, pattern, and symmetry in landscape and abstract paintings, figurative sculpture, and architecture. They experiment with mathematical thinking in the creative process in their own two-dimensional compositions. They discover wider applications for their problem-solving skills and the relevance of math and art beyond each subject area. Topics and concepts reinforce classroom preparations for PSSA math subjects.
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Impressionism: Experimenting with Color and Brushstroke
Available for students in third grade and above
Impressionist artists, such as Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, and Cassatt, experimented with color, brushstroke, and composition to capture their observations and daily experiences in ways that set their paintings apart from past art and conveyed modern life. Students analyze the technical innovations they discover in Impressionist paintings and practice using them in their own compositions in the studio. They also experiment with the techniques of such Post-Impressionist artists as van Gogh, Cezanne, and Signac.
Create your own Myth
Available for students in third grade and above
Athena, Zeus, and Nike are among the towering mythological figures in the museum’s collection of classical Greek art and classically inspired art and architecture from later periods. Students explore images and the roles of myths in different cultures, and they create their own heroes and myths in drawings and clay relief sculpture. They discover the ways in which symbolism and physical characteristics convey personality and mythical powers.
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