How can we make learning fun? By cultivating a playful spirit! And we certainly did just that in the third day of the Art & Language Arts Summer Seminar.
If you participated in today’s program, post a comment that describes one way that you can use play in your classroom to enhance student learning.
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Today’s media exploration focused on sculpture. Teachers came up with all sorts of imaginative sculptures using wire and clay.
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Teachers were encouraged to explore a variety of textures by using plastic utensils, straws, and modeling tools.
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Try using coated wire to add a playful, textural element to clay sculptures.
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Two teachers, two colorful bowls, two different ways!
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When given the opportunity to use your imagination, a variety of subjects emerge–both living and man-made sculptures were created.
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Our extraordinary and talented intern Iris Hu is to blame for all the fun teachers had while exploring clay.
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And museum educator Theresa Sotto is to blame for making teachers read articles after making art.
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Curator Charissa Bremer-David captivated teachers by describing the history of this magnificent bed.
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Charissa demonstrates the swiveling action of a chair on which Marie Antoinette once sat while her servants fixed her hair.
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It’s amazing to be able to peek inside desks we’re not allowed to touch. Thank you, Charissa!
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Can you see the mark of the desk’s maker near Charissa’s right hand?
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Charissa’s talk is both informative and entertaining, as evidenced by our huge smiles.
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We gaze up at a chandelier that was designed to hold goldfish in its glass bowl.
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Upper elementary teachers pause for a Kodak moment.
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Graduate intern Elizabeth Osenbaugh leads a tour of the sculpture collection.
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Teachers look closely at the textures that Bernini was able to render in this marble sculpture when he was only 19 years old.
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This object is affectionately known internally as the “little pot.”
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Museum educator Kelly Williams explains a writing activity that teachers can do with our decorative arts collection.
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Teachers tell their partners about all the details they can find in a work of art.
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Our period rooms are terrific places to go to transport students back in time.
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Inspired by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Vexed Man, teachers created their own expressive heads thanks to the guidance of teaching artist Judy Blake.
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Look at the fantastic details on that sculpture!
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So much expression can be communicated in sculptures no taller than three inches.
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The creativity of the teachers shine through in this “class picture.”
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After working with sculpture, teachers were invited to create dream beds and place them in settings.
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The playful nature of this activity is evident!
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Who doesn’t want a feather bed?
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Perhaps all beds should have feathers.
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A bed fit for a queen.
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A boat-shaped bed sets sail.
Over 90 teachers gathered at the Getty Center on Saturday, August 13, to play games in the galleries and discover playful art-making activities. The 12th Annual Art & Language Arts Alumni Event, which focused on the theme of “Play & Pastimes,” brought out the playful spirit in teachers and Getty staff alike.
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Educator and author Laurel Schmidt listed words that teachers think of when they hear the word “play.” The circled words relate to what our brains do when we engage in playful, new activities.
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Laurel Schmidt shared so many playful and meaningful strategies, such as letting students use sidewalk chalk in the playground to practice writing.
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Teachers had a blast participating in an improv game inspired by Ellsworth Kelly’s sculpture Untitled, which was led by museum educator Jennifer Li.
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Jennifer Li discussed Rembrandt’s Abduction of Europa and then led teachers in a lively improv game.
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Museum educator Kelly WIlliams demonstrated how to use a toy squirt gun to create wacky watercolors.
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Teachers created a “mystery painting” with white crayon on white paper and then switched their drawings with a partner. Partners completed the works of art using watercolors.
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What a colorful array of watercolors! Participants used experimental techniques such as adding salt and using squirt guns.
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Museum educator Flora Ito led a tour of “crazy” containers such as decorative potpourri vessels created to look like ships.
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The newly installed Boy with Frog by Charles Ray was the focus of an activity developed by Burbank Arts Coordinator Peggy Flynn.
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Peggy Flynn’s session, “A Playful Process for Imaginative Molds,” was packed with enthusiastic teachers.
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Teacher Moira Hanson was very focused on the task of creating an imaginative mold.
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After viewing a fanciful clock in the Getty’s collection, teachers created imaginative clocks of their own.
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Hickery-dickery-dock, colorful vines run up this clock.
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Teacher Nora Felix was all smiles during museum educator Sandy Rodriguez’s clock-decorating workshop.
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