Panther Tour of the FWMSH for an Art Field Trip

Totally blanked on blogging this field trip, but its a great one for the middle of the Art Cycle. Check it out...

Big Idea: Take the teens to the museum for a behind the scenes tour and test thier skills in identifying art to reinforce the teens understanding of various art mediums, to show how art is used in the real world at a commercial and educational level, to introduce the teens to potential careers if pursueing the arts, and to have the teens see parts of the museum other patrons never get to see and understand what our employees do there.

Dates: Wednesday, April 5th

Groups Participating: Panther Teens

Materials: Clipboards, pens, and the questionaire.

Directions: We started in the DesignIT lab, and as they ate thier snacks, I asked them to look around the room to name an example of each of the following...
A painting, a sculpture, a photograph, and a computer generated art.
That got thier minds going the direction the rest of the afternoon would go. So next, simply print out the questionaire below (delete answers provided for blog), and take them into the depths of the museum for a tour, and have them answer the questions for an in depth look at how our artists work to build the various exhibits we display. Again, below are questions to print, but I've provided some answers our teens gave...

Museum Tour Art Questionnaire

Collection Library
-Name the 3 coolest objects you saw in the collections gallery…

A. A dead bird
A. A dead Bear
A. Spiders in a jar

-Of the 3, choose the most interesting object or an object you have a question about and present it to the group…

A. The black widow cause they can kill.

The Wood Shop
-Name 3 tools you saw in the wood shop you have used in Design IT…

A. Hand drills
A. Scroll saw
A. Sander

The Exhibits Shop
-Guess what the giant vent and fan used for?

A. Paint

Explorazone
-Name one thing in this gallery that is a…

-painting - A. Sand Painting

-sculpture - A. Chaotic Pendalum

-photograph - A. Photos that change color in light

-computer generated art - A. Color Contrast game

Risk
-Name one thing in this gallery that is a…

-painting - A. Picture on wall that says "Risk"

-sculpture - A. Biulding with steel beam

-photograph - A. Photos of workers

-computer generated art - A. Photo looking down below steel beam

Associated Concepts: Again, to reinforce the teens understanding of various art mediums, to show how art is used in the real world at a commercial and educational level, to introduce the teens to potential careers if pursueing the arts, and to have the teens see parts of the museum other patrons never get to see and understand what our employees do there.

Best Part: Either the collections library (in the Kids Space closet), taking them through the Wood Shop to below the Omni to see the boiler room, or taking them through the Exhibits Shop and up the stairs and having them guess where we were in the museum before we opened the door. They all got it wrong.

Improvements: Needed a little more time so we could have shared our at the end.