Learning to speak a foreign language involves hearing it, thinking about it, and speaking it. This program will have your class working in teams to answer questions posed about art from the past and the modern era while using the language they are studying. They all attempt to make sense of the world around them. Explore the connections that exist between thinking mathematically and artistically as students solve a narrative problem related to both disciplines.
Students work to figure out the process.
In this program, students play with some of the same scientific questions that artists such as Monet, Seurat, Picasso, and 1960s Op Artists have asked themselves about the connection between what the eye senses and what it perceives. Answers can take the form of a poem, a play, an essay or another work of art. The immense continent of Africa is home to some of the most dynamic and visually creative kingdoms on earth. Explore the role of art in communicating power and social ideals through proverbs and symbols in ancient Egyptian and Yoruba cultures. Tsar Trek places students in the roles of rulers, merchants and craftspeople from Russia and other parts of Europe and the Middle East as they negotiate their way to a meeting with the Tsar.