After four full days of learning about art in the Museum’s collection and discovering strategies for discussing and making art, participants of the Art & Language Arts program developed seven original lesson plansall in a few hours time!
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One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. In our final media exploration, teachers were challenged to make art out of recycled materials. Note the fanciful French swings created by our fabulous intern Iris.
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Teachers explore the array of interesting forms available from Trash for Teaching.
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Teachers share ideas while playing with recycled materials to create a variety of shapes and forms.
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A queen emerges from bins of recycled materials.
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Ah! It’s another beautiful day at the Getty Center.
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Teachers exit the galleries after writing about the same work of art they selected on Monday. They discovered so much more in their selected artworks after over four days of intensive training.
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Third and fourth grade teachers refine their lesson with museum educator Theresa Sotto.
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Tan Pratontep describes his lesson, which connects his autistic students to works of art.
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SDC teachers present on their lesson, which focuses on expressive gestures in a sculpture and a painting.
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To create sculptures that communicate poses, all you need are a few twist ties and a little bit of imagination.
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Fifth grade teachers connect to their “Take a Stand” unit by discussing Walker Evans’s Bridgeport Parade.
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A great way to reinforce students’ knowledge of shapes is to use paper shapes on the document reader.
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After discussing the shapes visible in a family portrait by Johann Zoffany, students can use paper shapes to create their own family portraits.
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Teachers demonstrate how to enhance students’ skills at comparing and contrasting by discussing family portraits by Johann Zoffany and Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam.
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Question: What’s a fun way to teach the concept of balance in works of art?
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Answer: Try balancing on one leg while your arms are on the shoulders of a partner.
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Inspired by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux’s Paneled Room, teachers display unbalanced designs and discuss how to add to the designs to create balance.
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The expressions in the figures of Georges de La Tour’s The Musicians’ Brawl are priceless!
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Studying expressions in works of art will help students to create their expressive portraits.
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Third and fourth grade teachers found the perfect work for addressing their “Let’s Learn” theme—a portrait of a prince by Jan Lievens.
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After discussing a work of art depicting a student who is learning, students can create their own pictures of a memory when they learned something.
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After a week of tours, talks, and seminars, teachers get rewarded with free books and reproductions.
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Teachers from 42nd Street Elementary School pause for a picture with Theresa Sotto after five intensive, but rewarding days.
During the third day of the Art & Language Arts seminar, teachers and Getty staff drew inspiration from drawings, decorative arts, and nature. And the results took the form of…animal sketches, decorative wall paper, dream beds, drawings of nature, poetry, imaginative narratives, descriptive writing, lively discussions, and more!
No matter what we did, we tried to tap into our playful, creative spirits. To learn how some classrooms are putting art and exploration at the center of learning, read
“The Garlanded Classroom” from The New York Times.
So the question still remains…if you want to provide more artistic opportunities for students, how do you carve out time for this in your busy school year? If you participated in today’s program, leave a comment with a time-saving tip or trick that will allow more time for meaningful art experiences.
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The best fuel for the busiest day of the week: breakfast burritos!
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Drawing was the focus of today’s media exploration. Teachers experimented with the different marks they could make with charcoal and drawing pencils.
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Curator Julian Brooks gave a tour of the exhibition Luminous Paper: British Watercolors and Drawings.
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Teachers were captivated by the curator’s knowledge (as well as his British accent).
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Educator Theresa Sotto invites teachers to share ideas for improving an arts-integrated lesson.
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Educator Veronica Alvarez tells a story about Midas, which inspired an artist to create his Self-Portrait as Midas.
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What has captured the interest of all of these teachers?
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A painting of Louis XIV!
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Educator Kelly Williams leads a writing activity inspired by an 18th century bed.
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Teachers looked for patterns and shapes in the bed’s design.
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Teachers shared their observations about the bed with their colleagues.
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Educator William Zaluski led a drawing activity inspired by the many animals that trot, crawl, and rear across the Getty’s collection.
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Teachers were fully immersed in the activity of drawing an animal by combining basic shapes.
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Who knew that an elephant could take shape by simple shapes?
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Educator Alice Jackel led a decorative arts activity called “If These Walls Could Growl.”
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After viewing decorative walls from the 18th century, teachers cut out shapes from sponges to create patterns for their own wallpaper.
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One teacher began the activity with hesitation but left with a beautiful work of art.
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Educator Flora Ito leads an activity on drawing…well, flora.
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Teachers use their viewfinders to isolate details and then create contour drawings.
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It’s easy to find beautiful details from nature in the spectacular Getty grounds.
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Teachers select their favorite materials to create their “dream” beds in an activity led by educator Kelly Williams.
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Teachers added their own feathers, colored paper, and decorative designs to turn a cardboard box into a lavish bed.
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This teacher created rubbings and cut them out into leaves and flowers.
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These teachers proved that all you need is a pile of colorful paper to let your creativity shine!
Inspired by a 16th-century painting depicting a holiday, this student created a work of art about her family's holiday tradition of making tamales.
Six new lessons written by alumni of the Art & Language Arts program are now available online! In these lessons, students create works of art and write compositions inspired by the Getty Museum’s collection.
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