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Re: methods for secondary museum ed.

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Sidnie Miller (sidmill.edu)
Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:54:46 -0800 (PST)

Katherine -- When you consider the time involved in introducing your
students to one artist-in-residence as opposed to showing 25 or 30
diverse slides and discussing style or technique or composition or
emotion or color or a million different aspects in any one day--you can't
beat it! A million times better?? I don't think so. Seeing artists and
work in person is certainly valuable if the artist-in-residence is good,
but if they aren't you will waste time and turn your kids off. Aim for a
good balance. I live 250 miles from anywhere--and even when you get
there the museums are poor. My students can still get excited about work
from reproductions and slides,,. and they get excited about seeing each
other's work in person.

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On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Kathrine L Walker wrote:

> Using local artists in the classroom and with trips to their studios will
> certainly help students understand the process of creating art. Teachers
> should look into artists-in-residency grant possibilities with their
> state arts commissions.
>
> Kathrine Walker, Education Coordinator
> Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Thom Maltbie wrote:
>
> > >I think this is generally the queston my thesis is going to be on. I
> > >don't have musch formulated yet, but I'd be happy to let you know what I
> > >dig up as things progress. My basic idea is that it's a million times
> > >more effective for kids to be able to stnd in front of an original work
> > >of art and discuss it for its aesthetic and historical properties than to
> > >read a book or be subjected to "art in the dark."
> >
> >
> > Kathryn,
> >
> > Sorry to butt in,(this is a discussion, though). I've been teaching for ten
> > years at a rural school (60 miles from Cincinnati) and therefore the
> > collections are not accessible. I've discovered that kids, especially
> > younger ones (we can't all teach high school), do not understand the
> > inherent abstraction of the reproduction from its respective "real" work of
> > art. I have, literally, thousands of electronic and paper reproductions
> > which pale in comparison to a trip to the museum (we don't take those
> > trips). My feeling is that this problem is partially overcome by (1) the
> > "teacher as artist" and "art room as studio" switches (sometimes the
> > teacher has to have a meaningful and high level involvement with his/her
> > own studio work right there in the school) and (2) local artists and art
> > works (no matter how good) must be used as examples so that the students
> > understand the involved media and techniques. Keep discussing this, I
> > struggle with this and my own work as an artist.
> >
> > Thom Maltbie
> > South Ripley Elementary School
> > 812-689-5383
> > Versailles, IN
> >
> >
>