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*Animals in Art (Gr Pre-K-3)
1.5 hours - includes interactive elements
Discover animals in paintings, sculpture, the decorative arts, and other media. This tour provides an entertaining introduction to an art museum as it focuses on the depiction of animals by artists from many cultures.
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* This tour is also available for special needs groups.
Benchmarks Addressed: FA.K.1.1, FA.K.1.4, FA.K.1.5, FA.1.1.6, FA.2.1.4, FA.3.1.4, FA.3.1.5, MA.K.9.1, MA.1.9.1, SC.K.1.1, SC.2.1.1, LA.K.6.2, LA.1.6.2, LA.2.6.4
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Creatively Christmas (Gr Pre-K-2)
1 hour - includes interactive elements
(Not offered in 2010)
Explore the visual arts from the Renaissance to Medieval times that depict the first Christmas. Learn how and why artists make paintings and sculpture and what symbols they use. After the tour, attend a theatrical magic show with one of Santa’s helpers. View a flyer here.
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Kamishibai (Gr 1-2)
1 hour - includes interactive elements
Students will love to hear the Kamishibai or “paper drama” stories told from a small stage on the back of a bicycle in our Chinese courtyard. This form of storytelling dates back to the 12th century Japan when monks bicycled from town to town, gathered an audience by selling candy, and then taught valuable lessons through the stories. A tour of the highlights of Japanese art follows the story.
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Benchmarks Addressed: FA.1.3.5, FA.2.1.4, FA.2.3.4, SS.1.6.1, SS.2.6.1, LA.1.6.2, LA.1.6.5, LA.2.6.4
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East Meets West (Gr 1-3)
1 hour
Learn about cross-cultural exchanges and influences from the past as you examine curiosities from Asia carried over the Silk Road for trade in Western lands.
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The Great Outdoors (Gr 3-8)
1.5 hours - includes interactive elements
What can we learn by studying landscape paintings? Explore places around the world by investigating the Academy’s collection of landscapes. Compare the environments of cities, countrysides, and seascapes, and learn how landscapes have changed over time. Students will see how Hawaii, America and Europe looked long ago and will understand that artists document and express changes in the world.
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Benchmarks Addressed: FA.3.1.1, FA.3.1.3, FA.3.1.4, FA.3.1.5, FA.4.1.1, FA.5.1.1, FA.5.1.5, FA.6-8.1.2, FA.6-8.1.3, FA.6-8.1.7, FA.6-8.1.9, SC.4.8.2, SS.3.7.2, SS.3.7.4, SS.4.7.3
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Stories in Art (Gr 4-6)
1.5 hours - includes interactive elements
Everyone loves to hear a great story and works of art are visual illustrations for some of the best! Through the Academy collections, students will “read” the artists clues to dramatic stories of cultures from around the world and throughout time. The tour also includes an opportunity for students to have fun creating their own stories based on several works of art.
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Benchmarks Addressed: FA.4.1.3, FA.4.3.2, FA.5.1.5, FA.6-8.1.3, FA.6-8.3.11, LA.4.4.1, LA.5.4.1, LA.6.4.1, LA.7.4.1, LA.8.4.1
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Let’s Sketch (Gr 4-12)
1.5 hours - includes interactive elements
This interactive tour allows students to explore the variety of drawing techniques that artists utilize to create art, as they look and draw several works of art in the Academy collection. Tour sketchbooks will be given to the students to take home.
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Treasures (Gr 4-12)
1.5 hours - includes interactive elements
A popular “introduction to the museum” tour, Treasures focuses on outstanding works in the collection, from Neolithic to contemporary, by looking at painting, sculpture and functional objects from around the world. Students will engage in art through fun activities and discussions.
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Benchmarks Addressed: FA.4.1.4, FA.5.1.5, FA.6-8.1.3, FA.6-8.1.5, FA.6-8.1.7, FA.6-8.1.9, FA.9-12.1.3, FA.9-12.1.4, FA.9-12.1.6, FA.9-12.1.7
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Art and Life in Colonial America (Gr 5)
1.5 hours - includes interactive elements
This popular tour includes an activity in the gallery of early American art to investigate portraits, landscapes, and furniture, as well as a stimulating hands-on experience in a recreated colonial home, complete with an authentic 17th century fireplace. Students will discover the hardships of colonial life as they examine and discuss how objects were made and used for cooking, dressing, sleeping, and learning.
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Benchmarks Addressed: FA.5.1.5, FA.5.1.6, SS.5.2.2, SS.5.3.2, SS.5.3.3, SS.5.3.9
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Museum Enrichment Program (Gr 5)
3 hours
During an hour-long guided tour, your students will learn how to look at many of the important paintings in the museum. They will discuss the elements of art and the tools and materials that the artists used to express their ideas and feelings.
In the two-hour studio session that follows the tour, the Academy instructor will help students mix colors to create a painting. This "hands-on" painting activity allows each child to express his/her own ideas and feelings and to use the information gained from the guided tour.
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World Religions in Art (Gr 6-12)
1.5 hours
Art is not always just a pretty picture, but can be an expression of religious beliefs and stories from around the world. Students will see art as visual communication for Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism and Shamanistic beliefs.
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Global Village (Gr 6, 11)
1.5 hours
This tour looks at the ideas and objects exchanged between Western and Eastern cultures. These cross-cultural exchanges are evident in religious sculptures, silk clothing, ceramic tea service, decorative arts and paintings. The works of art discussed are from the 1st to 19th century and were transported along the Silk Road or shipped West to satisfy the European craze for anything Asian.
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