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April 2009

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Ideas for the Classroom

Art & Language Arts Culminating Event
April 25, 2009, 1:00–4:30 p.m.
The Getty Center

Professional Development

Integrate the visual arts into your K–5 language arts curriculum. During this culminating event for the Getty Museum's one-year Art & Language Arts program, elementary teachers will present curricula they designed as participants in the program.

At this free event you will swap ideas with other teachers, view student work, and get inspired!

Call (310) 440-7300 to register. Space is limited, so sign up now!

Visual arts meet language arts in fun, standards-based activities.
Visual arts meet language arts in fun, standards-based activities.
Art & Language Arts Applications Available

Professional Development

Participate in Art & Language Arts, a free one-year program that introduces K-5 teachers to strategies for developing students' skills in language and visual arts. This intensive program includes a week-long summer seminar, three workshops, class observations, and more.

Participants receive subsidized buses for Getty visits and credit towards salary points or continuing education units. Teachers must apply in teams of six to 10 from each school.

Learn more about Art & Language Arts and download an application for the 2009–10 class. Applications are due May 1, 2009.

Teachers in the Art & Language Arts program discuss paintings in the Getty Museum's galleries
Teachers in the Art & Language Arts program discuss paintings in the Getty Museum's galleries.
Villa Summer Institute

Learning from Ancient Roman Villas
July 8-11, 2009, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
The Getty Villa

Professional Development

The Villa Summer Institute for K-12 teachers is an intensive, four-day workshop open by application only. The Institute offers participants practical skills for using the Villa's collection, and the site, to create meaningful learning activities in the classroom and during a Museum visit. This year's theme, "Learning from Ancient Roman Villas," allows participants to investigate the interrelationships of art, history, geography, architecture, and archaeology through in-depth gallery and site investigations, presentations by curators and scholars, and art-making sessions.

Learn more about the Villa Summer Institute and download an application. Applications are due May 11, 2009.

K-12 teachers learn about the function of garden sculpture in an ancient Roman villa.
K-12 teachers learn about the function of garden sculpture in an ancient Roman villa.

C U R R I C U L A R   C O N N E C T I O N S

The Power of Persuasion

Current Exhibitions

Go beneath the surface of this masterpiece by Luisa Roldán (known as La Roldana), masterful sculptor, artist to two Spanish kings, and pioneering woman in a male-dominated profession. A new exhibition tells her story and reveals the techniques used to create a powerfully lifelike sculptural presence.

Use the lesson "Sculpting a Message: From the Counter-Reformation to the Present Day" with students in grades 6-12 to explore how images have been used to persuade people about specific messages or ideas. Students will research and discuss how La Roldana's sculpture of a saint might have been used as a persuasive image in 17th-century Spain.

View the lesson "Sculpting a Message: From the Counter-Reformation to the Present Day."

Learn more about the exhibition La Roldana's Saint Ginés: The Making of a Polychrome Sculpture, on view through June, 14, 2009.

See all events related to this exhibition.

Saint Ginés de La Jara Luisa Roldán (called La Roldana), sculptor; Tomás de los Arcos, painter; about 1692
Saint Ginés de La Jara, Luisa Roldán (called La Roldana), sculptor; Tomás de los Arcos, painter; about 1692

S C H O O L  V I S I T S

Major Changes in the Galleries

Getty Bookmarks

Did you know that works of art at the Getty Museum are often moved to new locations? Before you bring your class to the Getty, make sure all the artworks you want to visit are on view. Here is one change:

The Getty Center
Venus and Adonis / Titian

Not on View
Venus and Adonis by Titian is on loan until January 2010 for the exhibition Titian, Tintoretto, and Veonese, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Find the location of a work of art by using Getty Bookmarks. Register for an account and you'll always know the most current location of your bookmarked artworks. For the most up-to-date information, be sure to check Getty Bookmarks on the day of, or the night before, your visit.

Register for Getty Bookmarks now!

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