Adult Program + Children/Family Program + Educator Workshop

FAM Cohort: How to facilitate “Hang and Shares” and other Visual Critique
How can we use visual critique in the classroom to encourage critical thinking, thoughtful reflection, and a stronger revision process of student work?  This workshop is an interactive practicum designed to demonstrate how we can use visual critique lessons, such as “Hang and Shares,” as a method of enhancing student learning goals.  We will workshop in the museum galleries, examine samples of student work, and practice this process with our own artwork.  Education Project Manager, Andrea Curtis, will model this process and share classroom connections. 
 
Lessons in the Classroom
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
FAM Cohort: Gallery Tour for Educators
Farnsworth Assistant Curator, Jane Bianco, will provide educators with a private tour of the Decorating the Everyday: Popular Art From the Farnsworth exhibition and the recently opened A Wondrous Journey: Jonathan Fisher and the Making of Scripture Animals exhibition.  Jane will give us insight into her layout choices of the objects, provide us with contextual information about the works, and prompt us to think about how we can use these pieces in our museum and classroom lessons. 
Meet: FAM main lobby
Contact Hours: 1
Facilitator: Jane Bianco, Assistant Curator
 
Art for Creative Kids: 2nd session
This weeklong workshop will provide kids ages 8 to 12 years old with a strong foundation of artistic skills including color understanding, line variety, and what makes a strong composition. Weather permitting the group will work outside and make visits to the museum and local galleries. Each session will end with a positive critique of the day’s work, which parents are invited to attend. Students should come with a bagged lunch.
 
Art for Creative Kids: 1st session
This weeklong workshop will provide kids ages 8 to 12 years old with a strong foundation of artistic skills including color understanding, line variety, and what makes a strong composition. Weather permitting the group will work outside and make visits to the museum and local galleries. Each session will end with a positive critique of the day’s work, which parents are invited to attend. Students should come with a bagged lunch.
 
Artscapes for Young Artists
Art instructor Kathie Gass will guide students ages 7 to 11 through a watercolor painting project. The class will make boats then create worlds around these boats. Also, each day a different visiting artist will join the class for lunch. A healthy snack will be provided, and participants should also plan on bringing a lunch along with their creativity.
 
Instructor Kathleen Gass studied drawing and fiber arts at the State University of New York and has been an art educator for the past 20 years. Trelawney O’Brien will be a studio assistant for this class.

Location: Gamble Education Center
Summer Art Camp with Trelawney O’Brien
Kids ages 5 to 8 are invited to join teaching artist Trelawney O'Brien this summer where we will be creating colorful tie-dye t-shirts and traditional "Shibori" dyed tapestries for the beach, flower pinwheels, fun chalk drawings of your favorite ocean scenes, build a fairy house, have fun with flower and leaf prints, make "sun prints" with the cyanotype photographic process, and paint bright colored stones from the beach.

FAM Cohort: Paperdoll Making Workshop
Making Paperdolls of Louise Nevelson
 
Join Paperdoll Artist Susan Beebe in creating a paperdoll of Rockland's Empress of Sculpture Louise Nevelson -- No drawing ability required! 
 
2013 Lincoln Center Institute International Educator Workshop at the Farnsworth

The Lincoln Center International Educator Workshop is for educators and arts administrators who are interested in learning about imaginative teaching and learning through aesthetic education. Participants will experience performances and visual artworks, guided by art-making explorations that have been designed by Institute Teaching Artists.

More details will be made available. Please check back soon.

FAM Cohort: Descriptive Writing
This week’s gallery experience will explore how we can use artwork to advance literary goals in the classroom.  Educators will engage in abridged gallery activities with Education Project Manager, Andrea Curtis.  Educators will participate in each activity and reflect on ways to incorporate these strategies in their own classroom.  No previous experience needed and all materials will be provided.  All educators are welcome to attend. 
 
FAM Cohort: Art & Technology in the Classroom
This workshop will begin with an overview of various programs you can use to showcase student work with a broad audience.  The second half of the afternoon gives educators a chance to try out some of these tools for themselves.  If you are curious about iMove, Blurb Books, YouTube, altered digital photography this may be the workshop for you.  You can preview some of the material we will cover at ccskindergarten.wikispaces.com/eCreate.
 
Materials:  Please bring your school laptop (Mac) and any digital student work you would like to workshop with (i.e. student photos, videos, scanned artwork, text files, auto-files, etc.).