Day 3 of the Seminar: Amazing Drawings, Decorative Beasts, and Dream Beds
July 28th, 2010
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We started the morning with delicious scones and a drawing by Michelangelo, continued the day with lively discussions about lesson planning and writing activities in the galleries, and rounded out the afternoon with hands-on activities inspired by drawings and decorative arts!
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- Teachers set aside the stress of up to 2 hours of traffic to enjoy tea bread, fruit, and coffee before the program started.
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- Every morning teachers have the opportunity to explore a variety of media. Today, teachers experimented with black and white charcoal.
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- Curator Stephanie Schrader gave an engaging and informative talk about the drawing collection.
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- Curator Julian Brook’s tour of the new exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings was a big hit with the teachers.
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- Magnifying lenses in the galleries offered us a closer look at details drawn by Renaissance artists.
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- Museum educator Sandy Rodriguez offers suggestions for writing activities with painter Vernet’s A Storm.
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- Second and third grade teachers gather around an 18th century bed.
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- Gallery teacher and artist Audrey Chan discusses a 16th century drawing of a beetle that inspired contemporary artist John Baldessari.
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- After discussing drawings of natural specimens, teachers drew details of succulents and leaves in the Getty’s Central Garden.
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- Jasmine Magana, junior at Seattle University and intern extraordinaire, lists vocabulary generated from a discussion of French decorative beds.
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- Teachers created their own dream beds by choosing from a variety of colorful paper, ribbons, and assorted collage materials.
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- Teacher Rea Young creates a pattern of leaves with red ribbon.
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- A second grade teacher proudly displays her dream bed—complete with stairs!
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- A finished bed with a blue canopy dreamed up by teacher Antoinette Pippin!
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- 3rd-5th grade teachers drew animals with basic shapes in an activity led by museum educator Kelly Williams.
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- Artist and museum educator Sandy Rodriguez demonstrates how to create hybrid beasts from basic forms.
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- Teachers had fun sculpting Crayola Model Magic into hybrid creatures.
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- After teachers sculpted their decorative objects, they “gilded” them with a layer of gold tempera paint.
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