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Funding has been provided by the PNC Foundation, the charitable arm of the PNC Financial Services Group. Many thanks and much appreciation to PNC Foundation for its generous grant in support of our education department and faculty for 2013-2014. The Education Department at the Mobile These funds enable us to continue to offer Museum of Art is pleased to offer theme quality art instruction to the young people of tours and art activities to students K-4 Mobile County and beyond. In emphasizing through college. In recognizing the the relationship of art to core curriculum connection between academic success subjects, the PNC Foundation has provided an and an education in the arts, the invaluable service to our community. education staff has designed a program that incorporates core curriculum-based principles with art-related activities to encourage museum use and appreciation. Please review the programs and activities in our new School Tour Planner and take Thanks to the generosity of the Junior League S chool T our P lanner advantage of the unique educational of Mobile, Inc., the Mobile Museum of Art resources available to you and your will continue to provide an art program for students. We look forward to hearing Woody’s Song, Mobile’s school for autistic from you! children, for the academic year 2013-2014.

Kim Wood Operating support provided by: Curator of Education 251.208.5212 [email protected]

SPECIAL TOURS 2013 – 2014 In addition, a studio art class allows each student to create Asian Gallery Redesigned a Holiday Magic original, every piece reflecting the artist’s Permanent Collection Art and Archaeology: Joint Tour with the University of unique touch. Step into the Orient when you visit our remodeled Asian South Alabama Archaeology Museum Admission: $3 per student Gallery. This redecorated space includes such treasures as Student groups tour the Archaeology Museum at the Japanese porcelain, stoneware and woodblock prints, 19th University of South Alabama, learning about artifacts from Celebrate African-American History century Chinese watercolors on silk, Tang dynasty pieces, 18th the Gulf Coast, covering more than 12,000 years of prehistory Procession Dance Class, gallery tour and Reader’s Theater century cloisonné from the Qing Dynasty, an embroidered silk and history. Then they move on to the Mobile Museum of Art Studio Art Class dragon costume and much more. The docent-led tour includes to experience a gallery tour and studio art class. This program February 6, 7, 13, 14, 2014 other galleries of our permanent collection and traveling is appropriate for all age groups. This visual and performing arts tour for elementary and exhibitions. The studio art class a sumi-e Japanese brush Admission: $3 per student for each venue middle school groups introduces students to an interactive, painting class. African-inspired procession dance activity, gallery tour, and PACE: A World of Art studio art class. Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Collection This year, the Education Department is pleased to offer Tour Times: 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. November 15, 2013 – April 27, 2014 a special tour highlighting selected cultures, art and The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, which boasts an important architecture in world history, with emphasis on ancient Special Exhibition Tours holding of British art in North America, offers a touring civilizations. This tour, which is designed around the PACE exhibition, Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Collection. curriculum for 2013-14, is appropriate for all school groups Admission: All $3 With works by artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, interested in expanding their cultural horizons. A three- Constable, Delacroix, Turner and Sargent, school groups part program includes an interactive dance class, a gallery African Art and Artifacts should make plans to take advantage of this opportunity. tour and a studio art class of your choice: Sumi-e Japanese September 1, 2013 – August 31, 2014 With a preponderance of portraits, students will create an brushpainting or an Impressionist-style painting. Available Enjoy African art from our Permanent Collection in a brand- original portrait or self portrait, emphasizing the expression to all classes on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 9 a.m. new setting this year. School groups will tour a dramatically of individuality through elements and principles of art. or 10:30 a.m. We look forward to our ninth year for these transformed display of our African pieces in the Langan and All tours and studio art classes can be coordinated to popular tours. Altmayer Galleries. View the inlaid king’s chair, beaded fit any curricula. Admission: $5 per student ceremonial robes from Yoruba, and masks that reflect the various ethnic groups that make this continent so fascinating. Us-Plus: African-American Art Joint Tour with the Mobile International Festival Students tour other galleries as well, then create their own January– June, 2014 Theme: ‘Roots, The Journey’ African-inspired art in a studio art class. An array of art by African-American artists from MMofA’s November 21 and 22, 2013 permanent collection and selected prints from the Robert In collaboration with the Mobile International Festival, the and if, between the two Steele Collection will be on display for second semester Mobile Museum of Art is offering a joint tour to the Festival Through October 27, 2013 school tours. This show includes such artists as Lou Stovall, and the Museum. Gallery visits and cultural art activities are The intriguing title of this unique exhibition refers to a phrase David Driskell, Sam Gilliam and Faith Ringgold. Students will available to a limited number of school groups who are also from Henry David Thoreau’s memoir, WALDEN. Artist Kenn tour the exhibition with a discussion emphasis on artistic participating in the Mobile International Festival. Kotara has created 18 paintings, each one bearing a Braille technique as it has applied to African-American culture, then Admission: $8 fee includes $5 for the Festival and $3 for the inscription from Thoreau’s classic book, with additional create an original print in their studio art class. Museum, payable through MIF office. Please contact the materials designed for visually impaired audiences. Part Festival office first, then the Mobile Museum of Art to landscape, part conceptual illustration, these pieces are Vaughan Morrissette Sculpture Trail reserve tours. appropriate for all age groups. “...when we take time to When weather permits, we invite all tours to enjoy our observe closely,” states the artist, “we see that visual art sculpture garden, located on the grounds of the Museum. This Holiday Magic Tours 2013 is connected to literature, communication, education, the exhibition features sculptures from contemporary artists. December 2-13, 2013 environment and differing cultures.” Students tour the Docent-led tours of Masterworks of the Beaverbrook exhibition, then create an original work that reflects the Collection will complement a visit to Larkins Auditorium, quiet meditation of their own interior landscapes. For all tours, call Kim Wood to reserve: where the Mobile Society of Model Engineers will run their extensive variety of model trains, chugging and whistling 251.208.5212 or email along through miniature villages and countrysides. [email protected]. SCHOOL TOURS

GRADES 5 – 8 Trained volunteer museum guides lead tours based TOUR 3: THE DIVINE PROPORTION: A STUDY OF MATH IN ART on National Visual Arts Standards that incorporate the TOUR 1: ART: A WINDOW ON THE WORLD Disciplined-Based Arts Education (DBAE) principles of Objectives: history, criticism, aesthetics and production. They include Objectives: the following: • Learn about the history of the golden ratio/divine proportion • Define the basic elements and principles of • Recognize the basic elements and principles of art • Discover the golden ratio in works of art art (language arts) • Recognize the basic principles of art with a focus on • Identify the various techniques used by different artists • Compare the art of different cultures and times, • Identify the cultural diversity of the world shape, specifically focusing on triangles, rectangles e.g. Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and circles, based on the golden ratio • Compare the art of various artists and cultures and Africa (social studies) • Interpret the historical significance of an art piece • Discuss the function of art in different cultures Activity: The How and Phi of It All! • Understand the relationships of time, continuity • Understand the historical meaning of a work of art and change in art • Create an Asian brush painting • Relate educational disciplines to the visual arts SELF-GUIDED TOUR This tour allows prepared educators to guide their students • Encourage creative expression through analysis, Activity: Sumi-e (Japanese calligraphy) interpretation and evaluation of specific works of art through the museum galleries independently. These tours can take place anytime the museum is open, including • Engage the student in the production of a work of art TOUR 2: SELF-PORTRAIT • Expand the literacy level of the student through visual weekends. All standard rules apply, specifically one adult per every 10 students. experience, to encourage life-long learning Objectives:

• Define self-portrait EXHIBITION SCHEDULE TOUR OPTIONS • Compare and contrast painting styles and details in Admission-$3 portraits and self-portraits (critical thinking skills) • Understand the relationships of time, continuity Ongoing in West Gallery and change in art as seen in famous self-portraits Ann B. Hearin Gallery (social studies) GRADES PRE-KINDERGARTEN – 2 • Draw a self-portrait combining basic proportions July 5, 2013 – November 3, 2013 by utilizing a mirror and if between the two Kenn Kotara: Thoreau’s TOUR 1: COLOR & SHAPE WALDEN in Braille Activity: Me, Myself and I Objectives: July 5, 2013 – October 27, 2013 TOUR 3: STILL LIFE The Silent Cities of Peru: Archaeological • Identify the primary and secondary colors Photographs | Fernando la Rosa on a color wheel in artwork Objectives: • Identify the basic shapes (math) November 15, 2013 – April 27, 2014 • Create a mixed media artwork using shapes • Define still life Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Collection and colored markers • Recognize the basic elements and principles of art in a still life painting (visual arts) February 7, 2014 – September 7, 2014 Activity: Shapes Are Everywhere • Discuss how different textures can be created Us-Plus: Robert E. Steele selects African-American by repeating a pattern (math) Art from MMofA and other Collections TOUR 2: ANIMALS IN ART • Create a textured, colorful still life Objectives: Activity: Too Pretty to Eat TEACHER RESOURCES • Identify the primary and secondary colors TOUR 4: ABSTRACT DESIGNS IN ART on a color wheel and artwork • www.MobileMuseumofArt.com Connections: • Experiment in the mixing of colors A Curriculum Guide. Connections provides teachers Objectives: • Create a painting of an animal in its habitat (science) with examples of how to incorporate the visual arts into core-curriculum classes and how art can help • Identify characteristics of abstract art including Activity: My Favorite Animal reinforce almost any curriculum objective. Visit www. lines, shapes and space (math) MobileMuseumofArt.com and click on the Education • Recognize specific artists, their abstract compositions link to download Connections: A Curriculum Guide. GRADES 2 – 4 and their place in time (social studies) • Identify the function of a compass rose on a map • Traveling Art Trunks: Two traveling art trunks are TOUR 1: FACES (social studies) available for teachers to check out for one week to • Create an abstract collage using a compass rose use in the classroom. The African Art Trunk contains Objectives: as the central theme more than 20 hands-on artifacts from various African cultures. It includes a teacher’s guide, daily lesson plans • Define a portrait as art depicting a person or Activity: Directions in Art: The Compass Rose persons in a painting or sculpture (social studies) for one week, slides, suggested games and activities, and a bibliography of appropriate books for reading. • Recognize portraits by famous artists with GRADES 9 – 12 special emphasis on Leonardo da Vinci The second trunk is the Southeastern American Indian, • Discuss proportions in a portrait (math) which includes hands-on objects of the Creek Indian TOUR 1: HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS IN AMERICAN ART • Create a portrait using basic principles of tribes, a guide, lesson plans, activities and book list. proportion in the human face COMING SOON: Exciting new Asian trunk! Objectives: • Interpret the historical significance of a work Activity: Facial Fantasies of art (social studies) • Recognize the importance of American history TOUR 2: ART DRAWN FROM NATURE as expressed in art (social studies) • Where will you be, what will you be 10 years TOUR RESERVATIONS Objectives: from now? (project yourself) Contact Kim Wood at 251.208.5212, • Identify the basic elements of art in a landscape, e.g. Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Activity: Amazing Assemblages: The Trend to Upcycle shape, color, texture, value, line perspective (math) or e-mail: kwood@MobileMuseumofArt. • Compare various works of art depicting natural com to schedule your visit. TOUR 2: THINK CONTEMPORARY environments (science) • Define a landscape as a painting of natural scenery Please have ready: Objectives: that can also include a scene from one’s community (social studies) • Name, address and phone number • Define what is meant by “contemporary” • Create a painting of a nature scene or object of school and contact (language arts) • Age or grade level(s) and number • Analyze, interpret and evaluate examples Activity: In My Backyard of children in your group of contemporary art (critical thinking) • Date and time of tour. Please prepare • Compare and contrast contemporary art in the a second and third date choice permanent collection and Material Imaginings • Any special needs your group may have galleries, using 19th and 20th centuries examples • Type of tour requested • Identify various media in the craft traditions: clay, (see tour options) glass, wood, fabric and mixed media • Amount of time for your visit • Connect the similarities of function, media and shape in various cultures (social studies) Your tour will be confirmed by mail. Please inform us of any changes to your Activity: Just Print It! scheduled visit as soon as possible.