BMA : Educational Programs : Outreach Programs

Outreach Programs last approximately 1/2 hour to 1 hour. Teachers' packages, containing extra information and project ideas, will be sent to each classroom. Outreach Programs are available within the 15-mile radius of Manhattan. Please note that these programs can be easily modified for older audiences, including senior centers and convalescent homes.

• Booking Outreach Programs

Rental Packets containing the slides and scripts of the Outreach Programs are available to teachers outside the 15-mile radius for a one-week period. The packet includes vocabulary, biographies of the artists, and activity ideas. The school must pre-pay a shipping and handling fee of $5.00 and cover return postage. The Rental Packet can be returned in person to save return postage. Contact the Education Coordinator at 532-7718 to reserve packets.

Animals of the Plains
Grade level: Kindergarten or First

Program Description: Students will look at a variety of artworks with animals of the Great Plains as subject matter, from fossils to bucking broncos. Most works were created by regional artists - hence, representations come from Alocal@ experience. Animals can be classified as wild, domestic, mammals, birds, and even insects.

Curriculum ties:
Design Approach - space, texture

Critical/Appreciative - movement, speculate on story, identify difference between print and painting, human characterization of animal

Science - classification of animals.

Work on the Plains
Grade Level: Second and Third

Program description: Students will look at prints and paintings by regional artists to examining work on the plains in the 1930s

Curriculum Ties:
Design: use of line, how artists create the perception of space on a two-dimensional plane

Critical/Appreciative: work on distinguishing drawings, prints and paintings, speculate on the story, symbolism

Social Studies: various aspects of work and agriculture.

Images of Native Americans
Grade Level: Third and Fourth

Program Description: Students will look at images of Native Americans created by non-Native American artists. Concepts of stereotypes, identity and individuality, and traditional ceremony and symbolism will be explored. An initial art activity will help students explore how they see Native Americans and point out some common stereotypes. Selections of art by two Native American artists will be included at the end for comparison.

Curriculum ties:
Design: repetition/pattern

Critical/Appreciative: Color, stereotypes, spatial elements, expressive treatment of subject matter

Social Studies: Native American culture.

The Face in Art: Cultural Identity and Social Function in Portraiture
Grade Level: Fifth and Sixth

Program Description: Using a variety of portraits from the collection, students will look at cultural identity, social uses art, and how artists portray the self. In addition, students will learn how to read a portrait. Teachers' package includes a creative writing project.

Curriculum Ties:
Design - use of shadow, proportion:

Critical/Appreciative - minority artists, influences for creating art, social functions of art

Social Studies - comparative cultures (includes native American, Hispanic, Asian, African-American images)

Language Arts - creative writing

Mathematics - proportions.

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