Family Programs
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Teachers' Programs
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Family Programs
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Family Programs provide opportunities for children and adults to create and talk about art and enjoy a museum experience together.
STORYTIME IN THE GALLERIES
First Fridays for Families!
Fridays, 10:30 – 11:15 am
March 5, April 2, and May 7, 2010
Join us on the first Friday of the month for Storytime in the Galleries! Find the connection between art on view and children’s stories. Enjoy readings, songs, performances, and art-making activities. Special thanks to the Williamstown Library for their assistance. Preschoolers and toddlers with adults welcome. No reservations required for families. Preschool classes are encouraged to book a group reservation for a Storytime tour.
Art & the Brain
Saturday, March 6, 2010
1:00–4:00 pm
What would it feel like to be inside a brain? Find out in the exhibition, Landscape of the Mind: Contemporary Artists Contemplate the Brain, where you can watch brightly colored neurons grow like tree branches. The invisible workings of the mind become visible in contemporary sculptures, installation, prints, and embroidery. This family program offers student-led tours of the exhibition, mind games, artmaking projects, and mind-blowing activities by Williams professors Betty Zimmerberg and Noah Sandstrom.
Children of all ages welcome.
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Guided
Tours
Guided tours facilitate inquiry-based discussion of the artwork, followed by hands-on activities that explore aspects of the exhibition. Confirmation packets include standards-based educational material to assist with integrating the museum experience into the school curriculum. Reservations are required.
The Founding Documents & American Art
February 23–May 14, 2010
Elementary, Middle, and High School
The Founding Documents—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Articles of Confederation—tell the story of the country in formation. Consider these rare documents alongside exceptional examples of American art. Express yourself through artmaking and writing activities.
Art & the Brain
February 23–April 30, 2010
Elementary, Middle, and High School
 Education Guide
What makes us who we are? What happens in our minds as we think, see, hear, smell, and taste? Four artists investigate these questions and more in the exhibition, Landscapes of the Mind: Contemporary Artists Contemplate the Brain. In Andrew Carnie’s installation, students can experience the internal fireworks of the mind as neurons are projected on screens in a darkened room. Jessica Rankin makes memories visible using fabric, text, and image; Katy Schimert creates sculptures of the brain; and Susan Aldworth makes elegant etchings based on brain scans. Tours and activities will invite students to explore how artistic inspiration can be found in science. Guaranteed to make you think!
The Wild Wild West
March 2 – May 14, 2010
Elementary, Middle, and High School
Education Guide
This exhibition focuses on a single work of art from the museum’s collection: Bronco Buster by Frederic Remington. See what it feels like to be an art historian and learn the story of the artwork. Through close study of this bronze sculpture of a cowboy on his horse, students will learn how Remington made his first sculpture, why he chose this medium, and other discoveries. Find out what this sculpture has to say about ideals of the American West through discussion and activities.
Whale Tales
March 13-August 8, 2010
Elementary, Middle, and High School
Education Guide
Over fifty feet long and ten feet high, Tristin Lowe's sculpture of a ghostly white sperm whale sprawls across the museum's largest gallery. Mocha Dick is a life-sized rendition of the infamous leviathan that once harassed sailing ships near Mocha Island in the South Pacific Ocean and was the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Tours are available for all ages. Explore elements of sculpture and consider how the greatest living mammal on earth has captured the imagination of artists and writers.
Tours include opportunities to create whale tales of your own.
Encounter Art
February 23–May 14, 2010
Elementary, Middle, and High School
From ancient to modern art, the range of artwork in our collection offers endless possibilities for curriculum connections. Shape your own encounter with art by planning an individualized tour and activity with education staff.
Storytime in the Galleries
February 23 – May 14, 2010
Preschool and Elementary School
Combine art and stories in a fun, literacy-based tour! We find thematic, symbolic, and even humorous connections between art on view and age-appropriate books. Look at art, listen to stories, discuss the connections, and create art projects.
Self-Guided Visits
Groups are welcome to tour the galleries on their own. Reservations are required. Limited to 20 students, with one chaperone for every 10 students. Please plan on dividing your class into small groups, informing students about gallery rules, and discussing artwork with your students.
Multi-Session Programs
Making Connections
This three-session program includes visits to the gallery and art-making sessions at your site. Offered to school groups, community centers, and audiences with special needs.
* Design your own program, or select from these offerings:
Time Travel Through Art History
October 2009–April 2010
Elementary, Middle, and High School
Pack your sketchbook and journal and encounter artwork from different time periods. Your trip through art history is tailored to your curriculum and grade level.
Visual Narratives
October 2009–April 2010
Explore the art of storytelling! Unravel the stories that the artwork tells through writing and bookmaking activities.
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Teachers’ Programs
All photos by Arthur Evans
© Williams College Museum of Art 2008
Education programs at the Williams College Museum of Art are made possible by the Eugénie Prendergast Trust. Additional support comes from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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School Outreach Presentations
On request
We are pleased to present our
education programs and exhibitions in a 20-minute PowerPoint
presentation at your school.
Tours for Teachers
On request
We
encourage you to organize a tour for teachers from
your school to preview our exhibitions and plan your
visit.
Individual Consultation
We
are always available to plan curriculum connections
and tailor our programs to enhance your experience
with us.
Teachers’ Workshops
Offered to teachers from all grade levels, administrators,
and home-schooling parents.
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Kidspace is a collaborative project sponsored by MASS
MoCA, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and
the Williams
College Museum of Art.
Teachers, students, families, and the general public are invited to explore
the role that contemporary art can play in our lives. A collaborative project of the Williams College Museum of Art, the Clark, and MASS MoCA, Kidspace is a contemporary art gallery, studio space, and education initiative.
During the school year, Kidspace conducts an extensive art program, reaching every student and teacher in six partnering public elementary schools in Massachusetts and Vermont. This program provides gallery visits and artmaking projects, artists’ residencies, teachers’ workshops, and teacher-developed curriculum. Curricular materials are available online
at kidspace.massmoca.org.
Kidspace Exhibitions
Kidspace presents two exhibitions each year, selected for educational and artistic
merit. Visitors can make art of their own in response to the exhibition in
the studio space.
You Art What You Eat: Food as Art Material
October 3, 2009–September 6, 2010
Featuring Chandra Bocci, Luisa Caldwell, Saxton Freymann, Liz Hickok, and Joan Steiner. This exhibition features artists who use candy, fruits, vegetables, JELL-O, and food-related paraphernalia as art material and to illustrate their ideas about the world.
The Kidspace at MASS MoCA Color Forms two part exhibition series will feature new work by three internationally exhibited artists – Portia Munson, Soyeon Cho, and Lisa Hoke – exploring how color can become form and how it can be connected to social constructions of meaning such as gender.
For Color Forms I: Pink & Blue Project (October 2, 2010–February 27, 2011), Portia Munson will use paintings, photographs, and everyday objects to organize an installation focusing on how the colors pink and blue help to shape and reinforce gender roles. Her work will also be used to discuss the mixed messages sent to children about gender and about mass consumption. The sheer mass quantity of collected pink and blue material goods to be displayed will make plain how children are indoctrinated into the world of materialism and are taught social rules for gender identity. This exhibition will be targeted to 3rd–8th graders.
Color Forms II: The Basic Utensils (March 26, 2011–September 5, 2011) will juxtapose the color elements in the sculptural works of Soyeon Cho and Lisa Hoke. Targeted to Pre-K – 2nd graders, this exhibition will explore basic concepts of art including patterns, line, form, and color, focusing on 3D artwork. Hoke will install a large-scale, boldly colored mosaic throughout the gallery, using plastic cups filled with different levels of paint. Cho's work, fashioned from disposable materials
such as strings, clear tape, and plastic forks, will be more delicate, with luminous and dreamlike color effects. This exhibition will be targeted to Pre-K–2th graders.
School visits are available with
reservations at a fee of $4 per child.
Families and the public can visit the gallery on weekends,
during school breaks, and over the summer.
For more information about current
events at Kidspace, contact:
Kidspace at MASS MoCA
87 Marshall Street
North Adams, MA 01247
email: LThompson@massmoca.org
phone: 413.664.4481 x8131 |
