"The Speak to Learn Show: Conversational
Foreign Language Sessions"
Languages offered: Spanish, French, German
A game show like no other! Learning to
speak a foreign language involves hearing it, thinking about it, and speaking
it. This program will have your class working in teams to answer
questions posed about art from the past and the modern era while using
the language they are studying.
"Dream Big: Art and Martin Luther King’s
Vision"
Teaching students to look at and act on the needs
of those around them is not an easy task. This program addresses
the issue by examining the connections between the themes of Dr. Martin
Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech and works of art at the IMA by artists
who have struggled to have their voices heard. (This program is free
when you schedule a subsequent Museum visit.)
"What’s the Problem? Math and Art"
Mathematicians, art historians and your students
have something in common. They all attempt to make sense of the world
around them. Explore the connections that exist between thinking
mathematically and artistically as students solve a narrative problem related
to both disciplines.
On the Wall: Drawing on Math - The Museum
hired a world-famous artist to solve a big art problem at the IMA, and
he used math to do it! Students work to figure out the process.
"What’s Your Sign? Decoding Medieval Imagery"
After decoding medieval symbols to better understand
the link between art and social structures of the past and present, your
students create a symbol for themselves.
"Eye Wonder: The Art of Science"
The brain is much like an artist and a scientist,
all three perceive data, interpret it and create something new with it.
In this program, students play with some of the same scientific questions
that artists such as Monet, Seurat, Picasso, and 1960s Op Artists have
asked themselves about the connection between what the eye senses and what
it perceives.
"The Good Life(Two Part Social Studies Series)"
In Session One of this two-part series students
reflect on what it means to have "the good life" by discussing how the
concept has been portrayed over the last 100 years in European and American
art. After further discussion using guiding questions on the IMA's
website, students work in small groups to answer the question: "What
will 'the good life' be in the future?" for Session Two when they present
their findings. Answers can take the form of a poem, a play, an essay
or another work of art.
"Royal Riddles in African Art"
The immense continent of Africa is home to some
of the most dynamic and visually creative kingdoms on earth. Explore
the role of art in communicating power and social ideals through proverbs
and symbols in ancient Egyptian and Yoruba cultures.
"Tsar Trek"
The exhibition Gifts to the Tsars, 1500-1700
Treasures from the Kremlin, (opening at the IMA on September 22, 2001)
reveals that court life in Europe and parts of Asia was a highly strategic
game. Tsar Trek places students in the roles of rulers, merchants
and craftspeople from Russia and other parts of Europe and the Middle East
as they negotiate their way to a meeting with the Tsar.
Additional programs that are available include:
"Impressionism", "Renaissance", "Symbol Eyes", "Women Artists", "The Hoosier
Group", "United We Stand: American Art 1860-1900",
"Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the
1890s", "Gauguin and the School of Pont Aven", "African American
Artists", "Off the Wall: A Fresco Fiasco", "Telling Times".
*Programs available Monday - Friday, 7:30 AM -
5:00 PM. |
