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Home>Learn>Teachers>School Field Trips>Perspective Taking through Art

# Perspective Taking through Art

Grades 7 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.**

Art can be a powerful tool for cultivating empathy, respect, and self-awareness. Students will experience two or three works of art from different perspectives on this field trip using creative writing, visual note-taking, and movement techniques.

Students will be encouraged to think critically, as a group, about the multiple perspectives that exist within and around a work of art. They will attempt to step into the shoes of the artist or a figure represented in a work of art—and consider the different experiences and viewpoints they discover in the process.

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Richard Norris Brooke, *A Pastoral Visit*, 1881, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), 2014.136.119

Looking and Learning Skills

On this field trip, students will explore two or three works of art from different perspectives using creative writing, visual note-taking, and movement techniques. Students will practice the following skills:
                    - Making and articulating careful observations.
                    - Formulating questions that demonstrate curiosity and connection through empathy.
                    - Examining works of art from the perspectives of peers, the artists, and the people in the art.
                    - Reasoning with evidence from the works of art themselves—developing narratives based on what's seen in the work of art.
                    - Connecting new ideas to prior knowledge and personal experience.  

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**In-Person Field Trip Information**

Group Size: Up to 60 studentsLength: 90 minutes; Offered at 12:30 p.m. or 1:45 p.m.Meeting Location: West Building Rotunda

**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

Example works featured on the Perspective Taking through Art
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, *The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial*, 1900, patinated plaster, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire, X.15233

Example works featured on the Perspective Taking through Art
Edouard Manet, *The Old Musician*, 1862, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.162

Example works featured on the Perspective Taking through Art
Randolph Rogers, *Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii*, model 1855, carved 1860, marble, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2000.85.1

Example works featured on the Perspective Taking through Art
Richard Norris Brooke, *A Pastoral Visit*, 1881, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), 2014.136.119

Example works featured on the Perspective Taking through Art
Archibald John Motley Jr., *Portrait of My Grandmother*, 1922, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, Avalon Fund, and Motley Fund, 2018.2.1

## Additional National Gallery Resources

Lessons for Grades 6 through 8

Lessons for Grades 9 through 12

Classroom Poster
The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial
The poster offers information and activities to encourage students to consider the perspectives of a famous regiment of African American Civil War soldiers by carefully looking at art images and using creative-writing prompts. It explores the artistic challenges of creating a meaningful memorial and tasks students with conceptualizing their memorials.
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