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Saturday for Educators Schedule 2010-2011

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is offering Saturday for Educators four times during the 2010-11 school year. Educators attend this program to learn about the Ringling’s permanent collection and special exhibits, network with other area educators, and refresh their creative spirit. In-service professional development hours are available for each program.  All programs are 9:00 a.m. –  12:00 p.m.  and include a lecture, a gallery experience, and a hands-on activity or lesson plan tied to the Sunshine State Standards. The cost of each program is $15, which includes all materials. The Museum suggests that you pre-register to secure a spot in each program.  Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m.


October 23, 2010 – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Curriculum connections: Visual Arts, Language Arts, World History, Geography, Civics and Government

 

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Workshop of Frans Geubels (1560), The Birth of Romulus and Remus, in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

Explore how works of art tell stories, from the single image that captures the key moment of a narrative to the series of scenes which tells the whole tale.  Unlock the secrets of symbols used throughout the ages, and discover the clever ways in which artists wordlessly create atmosphere and emotion, focusing our attention on what is important. Using the Renaissance tapestries featured in the exhibition Threads of Gold and works of art in the permanent collection, learn how to look carefully and critically at images made in any period, from panel paintings to billboards. 

 

December 4, 2010 – The Artist’s Toolbox
Curricular connections: Visual Arts, Language Arts, World History, Geography

 

Looking at works of art in the permanent collection, examine artistic processes in the 17th through 20th centuries and investigate the artist’s toolbox. Focusing on compositional elements such as line, color, and shape, examine how artists execute representational and nonrepresentational subject matter. Through a series of comparisons, explore how artists throughout history depict similar subject matter in radically different ways and understand that not every work of art includes a narrative. 

 

 

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Joseph Albers, Orange from the series Homage to the Square, 1970, MF83.23

 


February 26, 2011 – Art in Bloom
Curricular connections: Visual Arts, Language Arts, World History, Geography, Science, American History

 

Design by Basil Besler (1561-1628), Large Sunflowers (Flos Solis Maior), in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

Using the botanical illustrations included in the exhibition Gardens in Perpetual Bloom and works of art in the permanent collection, discover the many roles plants played in history. Traditionally medicine was made from plants and the cultivation of exotic plants in Europe indicated the exploration of new continents. World exploration led to an increase in documentation and classification of plants in an attempt to understand the natural world. The natural world and documentation of nature inspired artists working in many media. Gardening became a popular hobby and united the scientific and artistic interests in nature. During “Art in Bloom” learn about various purposes for plants throughout history, but also about Sarasota’s great women gardeners.


April 9, 2011 – Crosscurrents of Design: Asian Export Ceramics
Curriculum Connections: World History, Geography, Economics, Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Cultural Studies

 

When Europeans “discovered” sea routes to Asia in the early 16th century, Asia was already home to advanced cultures, as evidenced by the ceramics produced in many of its countries. This new demand for Asian ceramics in Europe changed long-standing patterns of trade, and even changed the nature of the ceramics themselves. The program will focus on the intersections of Asia and the West, particularly Europe, the economics of trade and its impacts in the 15th through 19th centuries, and the cultural meanings of symbols. Explore history, economics, and fine arts in a complex set of comparisons that reveal underlying cultural characteristics.

 

Chinese, late 17th‑early 18th century, Dutch Family at Table, SN11122.187

 


For more information or if you have questions about Saturday for Educators, please contact: rebecca.bradley@ringling.org

 
Updated on 8/9/2010

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