Designed for grades 3 - 6. In a program created especially for middle schoolers, students will explore ways in which various cultures throughout history have used adornment to establish personal and social identity. Body shaping, tattooing, piercing, scarification, cosmetic use and decorative arrangements of hair reflect diverse cultural values and also relate to issues of self-definition facing students today. Designed for grades 7 - 8. Each distance learning session focuses on a real-life conservation problem related to experiments conducted by high school students in their own classrooms.
Students test metal density and explore properties of matter.
Students investigate paper chemistry and conservation and are introduced to the uses of chemical processes in printmaking. Beginning with the mid century action painter Jackson Pollock, students will be introduced to styles ranging from Abstraction to Pop Art to variations of Realism. Painting and sculpture by artists represented in the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art will be presented along with information about selected techniques used to create these works. Students will be introduced to artists such as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and photographer James Van Der Zee, as well as to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Designed for grades 9 - 12.