Docents utilize gallery games, kinesthetic activities, and inquiry-based discussion to actively engage students. Students use observation and language skills to understand the characters and their feelings and relate them to their own experiences. Students learn to see how a work can appeal to their five senses or to their spiritual beliefs. Docents use props and active questioning to encourage students to voice their own preferences about the art they see. This tour of key works from various cultures and periods is a solid introduction to art at the Speed.
Docents employ stories, games, and lively discussion to hold student interest.
Students are encouraged to compare and contrast the works they see to discover how art changes over time. With advance notice, this tour can accommodate your request to see art from a specific culture or time. Students discover great art and several key concepts and terms, including portrait, still life, and landscape paintings by artists of different cultures and periods. Through inquiry and discussion your students will learn to distinguish representational and non-representational art works and discover the purposes of art, while expressing their own opinions about what they see. This tour asks students to consider why some artworks appeal to them more than others.