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Home>Learn>Teachers>School Field Trips>Art Investigators: Exploring Modern Art

# Art Investigators: Exploring Modern Art

Ages 4 to 6, Kindergarten through Grade 5

**We are no longer accepting requests for winter/spring field trips.**

**We will offer a selection of in-person and virtual field trips (using Zoom) for Fall 2024.**

**Request for fall field trips (September 30 – December 6, 2024) will be accepted from August 1 – November 1, 2024.**

As “art investigators,” students will look for clues, discover artists’ choices, and use their imaginations to explore modern and contemporary art. This field trip will include simple art-making activities designed to help students think creatively and make personal connections to the works of art.

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Piet Mondrian, *Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black*, c. 1924/1925, oil on canvas, Gift of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild, 1971.51.1

Looking and Learning Skills

During three or four field trip stops, students engage in activities—looking exercises, art-making activities, and small group work—that foster conversations and extend students’ understanding of the artists’ creative process. The following skills are promoted:
                    - Observing, describing, and sharing ideas about the works of art.
                    - Developing ideas about art by drawing on clues, prior knowledge, and imagination.
                    - Making personal connections with the works of art.
                    - Feeling a sense of belonging in the museum setting.

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**In-Person Field Trip Information**

Group Size: Up to 90 studentsLength: 60 minutes for ages 4 through grade 3; 75 minutes for grades 4 and 5Offered at: 12:30 p.m., 1:00 p.m., and 2:15 p.m.Meeting Location: East Building Atrium

**Important Scheduling Information**

Field trips must be scheduled at least four weeks in advance. Groups must contain at least 15 students.

Once your field trip has been scheduled, you will receive an email confirmation within ten business days.

**Title I Bus Stipends**

Funding for the cost of bus transportation is available for Title I schools that participate in our docent-led school field trips. For more information, please get in touch with Deirdre Palmer at [email protected] or (202) 842-6880, or use the application form.

## Examples of Works Featured on this Field Trip

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Henri Matisse, *Large Decoration with Masks*, 1953, gouache on paper, cut and pasted on white paper, mounted on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.17.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Georgia O'Keeffe, *Jack-in-Pulpit Abstraction - No. 5*, 1930, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.58.4

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Piet Mondrian, *Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black*, c. 1924/1925, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild, 1971.51.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
André Derain, *Charing Cross Bridge, London*, 1906, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982.76.3

## Additional National Gallery Resources

An Eye for Art

Art Tales for Pre-K

Lessons for Grades 1 and 2

Lessons for Grades 3 through 5

Classroom Poster
The Farm (La masía) by Joan Miró
This bilingual poster of *The Farm* by Spanish artist Joan Miró is designed to be a primary source for you to display and use in your classroom. We hope this poster will generate rich conversations, probing questions, and great ideas among your students, which you can support and develop using the information and activities provided on the back of the poster. The poster also offers opportunities to develop content knowledge about a Spanish modern artist, his artistic process, and the idea of identity expressed through art.
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