Picasso to Warhol (Grades K-12)
October 15, 2011-April 29, 2012
Assembled exclusively for the High from The Museum of Modern Art in New York, this exhibition is a who's who of twentieth-century artists. While engaging with some of modern art’s most important works, students will learn what makes a work of art a masterpiece and what makes an artist a master. While learning how modern artists expanded the definition of art, students will discover the many connections between modern art and their classroom curriculum.
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Audio Guides: Students will meet the masters of modern art, all of whom shared a common desire to create something new, be it through material, technique, or vision. Each student will receive his or her own audio guide and headset to use as they explore iconic works of art on this multi-disciplinary tour. Audio-guided tour lasts approximately 45 minutes. Available Tuesday-Sunday.
Cost: $6/student
Capacity: 150 students
Art Smart Performance: Your students serve as the contestants and studio audience on Art Smart, an interactive and improvisational modern art game show presented by Laughing Matters. Professional costumes, props, and projections create a fun environment for your students to learn about modern art. Performance lasts approximately 30 minutes and may be scheduled for before or after your audio-guided tour. Available on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Cost: additional $2/student
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Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of The High Museum of Art and The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Grades K-12)
February 4-May 13, 2012
Bill Traylor was a former slave and a self-taught artist from Alabama who utilized patterns and flat colors in his playful watercolors. In addition to exploring the engaging figures and animals in the Traylor exhibition, students will tour the High’s collection of folk art. Program lasts approximately 45 minutes. Available Tuesday-Friday.
Cost: $6/student
Capacity: 60 students
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PreView (Ages 3–5)
This combined tour and workshop is for budding artists in preschool, Head Start, and homeschool programs. A teaching artist will guide children in an exploration of color, line, and shape through games, story time, and an art-making activity. Program lasts approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. Available only on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Cost: $75/class
Capacity: 24 students
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First Look (Grades K–5)
The fundamental elements of art–line, color, shape, and texture–are the focus of this introductory tour of the High’s permanent collection. Students will create their own works of art and make connections between works they have viewed in the galleries and various art-making processes.
Cost: $8/student
Capacity: 96 students
Program lasts approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. Available Tuesday–Friday.
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I See Literacy (Grade 4)
Developed for fourth-grade students, the docent-guided I See Literacy tour offers an innovative cross-disciplinary approach to constructing meaning through the spectrum of literacy: reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Pre- and post-tour classroom materials encourage students to use I See Literacy as a springboard for language arts and visual arts activities.
Cost: $6/student
Capacity: 120 students
Program lasts approximately 1 hour. Available Tuesday–Friday. Teacher resource provided with scheduling of tour.
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Support for I See Literacy tours for the 2011-2012 school year is provided by Publix Super Markets Charities.
I See History (Grade 5)
Guided by the essential question “What can we learn about people from what they made, owned, and used?” fifth-grade students will explore American history by connecting prior classroom experience and gallery activities with the High’s permanent collection. I See History incorporates themes from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Picturing America curriculum: freedom and equality, courage and leadership, creativity and ingenuity, and democracy.
Cost: $6/student
Capacity: 120 students
Program lasts approximately 1 hour. Available Tuesday–Friday. Teacher resource provided with scheduling of tour.
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Every Picture Tells a Story (Grade 5)
Presented by Young Audiences, this lively performance will engage your students with interactive exploration of paintings, stories, and songs from several periods in American history.
Must be booked in conjunction with I See History tour. Available Tuesday–Friday.
Cost: $4/student (50 student minimum)
Dikenga: Discover African Art (Grades K–7)
In this combined tour and workshop, works from West African traditions will guide students through the African art gallery following the circular path of the dikenga, the Kongo cosmogram that charts birth, adulthood, elders, and ancestors along the universal pathways of life. A hands-on activity with a teaching artist completes the students' African Art experience.
Cost: $8/student
Capacity: 48 students
Program lasts approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes. Available Tuesday–Friday.
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Celebrate Black History (Grades K-12)
Explore the High’s extensive collection of art by African and African American artists.
Cost: $6/student
Capacity: 120 students
Program lasts approximately one hour. Available Tuesday-Friday.
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HIGHlights (Grades K–12)
HIGHlights tours offer students an overview of the High’s collection by comparing and contrasting select objects. Students will use questions, observations, and discuss to discover meaning in works of art that date from the fourteenth through the twenty-first centuries. High school groups may request special tours that focus on architecture, female artists, American history, or narrative art.
Cost: $6/student
Capacity: 120 students
Program lasts approximately 1 hour. Available Tuesday–Sunday.
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