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Home>Learn>Teachers>School Field Trips>Breaking the Rules

# Breaking the Rules

Grades 6 through 12

**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.**

What is modern about modern art? Students investigate how artists "break the rules" when they depart from realistic representation, use innovative techniques, and engage the viewer as a partner in creating meaning-making.

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Kerry James Marshall, *Great America*, 1994, acrylic and collage on canvas, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2011.20.1

Looking and Learning Skills

During four or five field trip stops, students engage in activities—such as looking exercises, sketching, and small-group work—that foster conversations around works of art. The following skills are promoted:
                    - Making and articulating careful observations.
                    - Formulating questions that demonstrate curiosity and engagement.
                    - Exploring multiple viewpoints within the group.
                    - Comparing and connecting different works of art.
                    - Reasoning with evidence from the artworks themselves.
                    - Developing new ideas about modern art.  

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**In-Person Field Trip Information**

Group size: Up to 60 studentsLength: 75 minutesMeeting 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
Kerry James Marshall, *Great America*, 1994, acrylic and collage on canvas, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2011.20.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Jackson Pollock, *Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)*, 1950, oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1976.37.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Theaster Gates, *Ground Rules (black line)*, 2015, wood flooring, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2018.11.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Rozeal. (formerly known as iona rozeal brown), *SONG OF SOLOMON 5:16 – BE BEEWORLD: BE B BOY B GIRL (after “Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Gueifei playing the same flute,” by Kitagawa Utamaro)*, 2014-2016, mixed media on wood, Gift of Giorgio Furioso and William A. Clark Fund, 2021.19.1

Examples of Works Featured on Tour
Constantin Brâncuși, *Bird in Space*, 1927, brass, limestone, and wood, Given in loving memory of her husband, Taft Schreiber, by Rita Schreiber, 1989.31.3

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