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Three-Day School-Museum Projects
Grades 1–6
Students explore a theme in depth in the school classroom, museum galleries, and children’s studioin this three-day program conducted by artist educators. Select from interdisciplinary themes designed to inspire creative thinking and art-making with applications across the curriculum.
$595.00/class; 35 students maximum
Monday: two-hour session in your classroom conducted by the museum’s teaching artists
(scheduled to fit your school day)
Tuesday and Wednesday: gallery-studio experience
at the museum (10:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m.)
Architecture: Problem-Solving Forms and Design
Students explore the creative process of architecture through gallery discussions and production of their own architectural drawings and models. The museum’s world-renowned collection of full-sized casts of ancient and medieval monuments in the Hall of Architecture provides insight on the relationships between form and function, and between structural and decorative design. Students learn architectural vocabulary, create drawings for their structures, and translate their sketches to three-dimensional models. The uses of measurement and problem-solving are integral to the construction process.
Presenting Pittsburgh: Past and Present
Views of Pittsburgh as seen through the eyes of Pittsburgh artists offer a unique way to learn about the city’s history and its evolving industrial landscape. Students compare and contrast African American artist Romare Bearden’s collage of his childhood home near the steel mills in Lawrenceville with self-taught artist John Kane’s paintings of Pittsburgh neighborhoods and European immigrant Aaron Gorson’s dramatic nocturnal views of rivers and mills. Students create personal multimedia cityscapes using painting, printmaking,
and collage.
Painting Portraits in Time
Portraiture can capture both a physical likeness and less tangible aspects of identity, such as personality, character, and social status. Direct observation and interpretive discussion of pose, facial expression, clothing, and setting in paintings from the 15th century to the present prepare students to create portraits of real or imagined individuals in the studio. They will establish a specific identity and context for their portrait subject while experimenting with modeling, proportion, composition, and color to create realistic or expressive representations.
Studying Symbols and Stories in Art
Civilizations throughout time and across the globe have preserved and communicated cultural values and traditions through symbols and myths. Gallery discussion and sketching of sculpture and architectural fragments in the museum’s collection from Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India inspire students to develop their own sets of symbols and narratives and to communicate their mythologies in painted and sculpted relief panels and sculpture-in-the-round.
Mining the Magnificent Middle Ages
Medieval objects—from an exquisite ivory miniature to a life-sized plaster cast of a church facade—provide the context for investigating life in Europe in the Middle Ages. Students discover how visual images in paint, stone, wood, and ivory communicated elaborate stories to a non-reading public. Students learn about the lives of apprentices and artisans as they try their hand at independent projects and group work modeled on the medieval guild system.
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