Education Department Highlights
July 2011–June 2012
The Education Department provides museum experiences for a broad range of visitors across two sites, the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.
Families exploring the Museum
At the Center, the department served 256,080 general visitors through tours, programs and interactive spaces; 189,701 family visitors in programs and interactive spaces (including 48,575 for self-guide materials); and 87,222 school visitors.
At the Villa, the department served 113,562 general visitors through tours and programs; 213,178 family visitors in programs and interactive spaces (including 46,380 for self-guide materials); and 45,687 school visitors.
Annual bus funding for Title One schools provided museum visits for 49,148 students at the Center and 21,247 students at the Villa.
At the Center and the Villa, 291 docents volunteered a total of 32,428 hours. Docents continue to enhance visitors' experiences at the Getty through programming in education spaces and tours of the architecture and gardens.
At the Villa, the department served 113,562 general visitors through tours and programs; 213,178 family visitors in programs and interactive spaces (including 46,380 for self-guide materials); and 45,687 school visitors.
Annual bus funding for Title One schools provided museum visits for 49,148 students at the Center and 21,247 students at the Villa.
At the Center and the Villa, 291 docents volunteered a total of 32,428 hours. Docents continue to enhance visitors' experiences at the Getty through programming in education spaces and tours of the architecture and gardens.
Social Media
Blog The Education Department is an active contributor to The Iris, the Getty's blog. For example, Gallery Teachers pose provocative questions about the collection through "Question of the Week."
Flickr® Two growing Flickr sets extend the department's engagement with visitors through images from the Center's Sketching Gallery as well as through Your Art at the Getty Villa that includes over 150 images with over 9,000 views.
Facebook In addition, the Education Department hosts the Getty Teacher Programs page on Facebook where Education staff engages with K–12 teachers locally and nationally.
Teacher Resources Online
The Art & Language Arts professional development program for K–5 teachers was honored with the 2012 Superintendent's Award for Excellence in Museum Education. The award competition is a joint project of the California Association of Museums and the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. In addition, twenty new lesson plans and three art activities for K–12 teachers were published on this website. The lessons connect works of art in the Museum's collection with language arts, architecture, and ancient history. The Department also launched the Museum's first webinar series, introducing teachers to illuminated manuscripts and French decorative arts.
Partnerships
John Divola's aggregated student photographs on display
At the Center
This year, the Education Department supported a project designed by John Divola, the 2012 Getty Artists Program invitee, who devised a digital scavenger hunt project in which participants used cameras to capture subjects from the Getty Center site and collections. This playful and open-ended project provided a unique entrée into the museum experience as well as the practice of photography. Participants ranged from college students from Santa Monica College, East Los Angeles College, College of the Canyons, and Pierce College to younger students from Hooper Avenue Elementary School who participated in the Art Together multiple-visit program. Divola aggregated the resulting images to create large-scale prints for presentation at the Getty Center and on getty.edu.The department partners with a number of schools to provide multiple-visit opportunities for students. Both the Getty Center's and the Getty Villa's multiple-visit programs are based on engagement models that provide guided instruction in the classroom and at the Museum by Education Department staff. The multiple-visit experiences provide deeper, longer-term learning opportunities for school audiences.
Trojan Women (after Euripides) at the Villa