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OMAH Education Programs Education programs 2016-2017 Orillia Museum of Art & History Art of Museum Orillia ORILLIA MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY CAHIAGUE: SCULPTURE & MOULDS ASK, EXPERIENCE & LEARN In this hands-on program, students Inaugurated by Grade 6 students at will create vessels in clay and pour Orchard Park Public School in Orillia, a cast in plaster to create a series of this unique inquiry-based program three dimensional responses to 17th provides students with exclusive century artefacts recovered from the behind-the-scenes access to local and First Nation settlement of Cahiague. regional history through our archives Elements and principles of design are incorporated into and collection. Our expert staff, educators and volunteers this program by sculpting, modelling, casting with moulds, will customize visits to our collection of over 10,000 arte- working with positive and negative space, and applying facts. Our collection is specific to the region’s history and dimensional texture and pattern. Learn about art con- embodies a shared legacy of first contact, migration, dis- cepts in combination with First Nations history via these placement, immigration, industry, civics and community. Wendat items. Examine selected 400-year-old artefacts Our archives and records are held in our research room to learn about life in our area before first contact and the within the jail cells, which remain from when our building arrival of Samuel de Champlain. was home to the Orillia Police. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. ESSENTIALS OF RELIEF SCULPTURE CREATIVE PRINTMAKING This program is inspired by Orillia Using artist-quality materials, students artist Elizabeth Wyn Wood and fo- will create a limited-edition series cuses on sculpture and visual narra- of prints using images drawn from tive. Students will learn how to create personal interests and activities. Print- the illusion of depth in relief sculpture making concepts and principles will and will model polymer clay to cre- be used to create a master “plate” ate a monochromatic low-relief landscape incorporating and reproductions, and students will be asked to consider Wood’s contemporary approach to depicting the Cana- the impact of printmaking on the development of civiliza- dian landscape. tion. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. GROUP OF SEVEN LANDSCAPE ARTHUR SHILLING: CHARACTER & COLOUR Central to our national identity, The Local artist Arthur Shilling is re- Group of Seven artists changed the nowned for his use of intense colour way Canadians viewed their coun- and bold composition to render try and their place within it through powerful and emotionally evocative expansive compositions and innova- portraits. In this program, students tive use of colour. Students will use will create a self-portrait in oil pastel acrylic paint and canvas in a direct media approach by integrating colour theory, non-local colour, proportion emulating techniques employed by members of the group and abstraction to render an impressionistic likeness that with a focus on Franklin Carmichael, who was raised in reveals an inner experience of each participant. Pattern, Orillia. Carmichael’s contribution to local and Canadian symbol and the relationship between colour and feelings art history will be integrated within a series of exercises in will be explored while drawing upon a large body of Shil- composition, media application and colour theory. ling portraits for inspiration. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. EDUCATION PROGRAMS MASK MAKING KANDINSKY: MUSIC, MARK & MOVEMENT This adaptable program can be This program is inspired by the tailored to complement the art and methods of artist Wassily Kandinsky history curriculum, as it examines and crosses curricula to combine ancient civilizations, mythology, music, movement and mark-making medieval society, indigenous cultures, with mixed-media experimentation. totemic animal depictions and pop- As a warm-up, students will listen to art imagery. In the first session, students will work with a variety of music while creating a series of responses plaster gauze to create the mask form as inspired by the on paper. The program will culminate in a painting on curriculum. Painting and embellishments are completed in canvas that incorporates musical concepts of rhythm, the second session. Principles of form, volume, composi- repetition, pattern and feeling using acrylic paint, pastel, tion, colour theory and themes of history and art history ink and graphite. Embedded within the lesson will be co- are addressed. lour theory as applied through the use of geometric and TIME: Two 100-minute sessions, recommended for Grades organic shape. 3 to 8. COST: $14 per student (includes both sessions). TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. HANDBUILDING WITH CLAY WATERCOLOUR: MIXED MEDIA & METHOD Dimension, form, volume, mass and Primaries, secondaries, contrasting texture will all be explored through and analogous colour will be intro- a variety of hands-on exercises in duced in combination with geometric this engaging workshop that focuses and organic shapes in this vibrant on process and fundamental ap- mixed-media exercise. Beginning proaches to the art of clay. Students with artist-quality materials, a limited will create a series of three-dimensional objects and palette and fundamental techniques, students will build successively more sophisticated clay sculptures us- upon a composition through a series of media applica- ing modelling techniques and clay tools. Starting with tions that integrate colour theory, geometry, patterning simple pinch pots and coil vessels and culminating in a and science. Participants will learn fundamental waterco- modelled and textured clay creature, participants will lour techniques and approaches and create spontaneous be introduced to the evolution of this material from craft secondary colours while experiencing the scientific reality into art form. that oil and water don’t mix. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. THE CULTURE & COLOURS OF MORRISEAU Chromatic colour, scale and repeti- ASK ABOUT OUR BUSING BURSARY tion all feature in this program that Funding is available on a first-come, first-served explores shape, pattern and positive basis and limited to one bus per school each and negative space. Students will em- academic year. Fill a bus with two classes to ploy different artistic strategies to cre- ate images with symbolic meaning, take advantage of an art program and free tour as inspired by regional Ojibwa artist Norval Morriseau. of our exhibitions and historic building. Studies Participants will create personal iconography to represent prove museum and art-gallery visits raise aca- their own characteristics and attributes while considering demic performance, particularly in small towns First Nations symbols. and rural areas. TIME: 100 minutes. COST: $7 per student. 30 Peter Street South, Orillia, Ont., L3V 5A9 705 326 2159 x103 www.orilliamuseum.org [email protected] HOW TO BOOK WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Please book programs at least three weeks in The Orillia Museum of Art & History has proudly delivered integrated visu- advance by calling or e-mailing the Community al-art and history programs to schools in the Simcoe, Durham, York Region and Visitor Engagement Coordinator at: and Trillium Lakelands district school boards for over 15 years. We offer di- verse programs that can be delivered at your school or here at the museum. 705 326 2159 x103 Our educators are practising visual artists with experience in delivering [email protected] exemplary art and history programming aligned with the Ontario Visual Program confirmation will be e-mailed at the Arts Curriculum. We design our programs to meet curriculum expectations time of booking. for the primary, junior and intermediate levels and deliver lessons that dem- onstrate increasingly sophisticated use of materials integrated with grade- The Orillia Museum of Art & History works appropriate curricula. Embedded within each lesson are art and design to schedule artists that best suit your program principles and elements presented with links to language, science and social needs. studies. Cancellations made less than one week before OMAH uses artist-quality materials with an introduction to proper ap- a confirmed program are subject to a cancella- proaches and methods, providing students with satisfying and meaningful tion charge of 25 per cent of the total program experiences that build self-esteem, foster curiosity and ignite passion for the cost. In the event of bus cancellations due to creative process and critical thinking. Sound art principles linked with varied inclement weather, please notify the museum as curricula produce lessons that support a variety of learning styles. This soon as possible to re-schedule your program. results in students having a broader recall of content. Materials are prepared based on the number All programs can be delivered as an outreach program at your school, of participants at the time of booking. Please or here at the museum for the same low cost. Our in-museum programs provide one week’s notice for changes to partici- include a tour showcasing items from our permanent collection as well as pation numbers. contemporary art exhibitions and interpretive activities. The museum is A minimum booking charge of 18 participants housed in The Sir Samuel Steele Memorial
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