School Programs Guide 2017–2018 Highly Engaging Teaching and Learning

The Wonderful World of Ashley BryanThrough January 21, 2018

Making AfricaOctober 14, 2017–January 7, 2018

Al TaylorNovember 17, 2017–March 18, 2018

Joris Laarman LabFebruary 18–May 13, 2018

What does learning look like at the High?

From visual literacy to STEAM, education at the Museum engages students and educators in the artistic process and promotes the skills necessary to build twenty-first-century learners. Use this guide to find the best programming for you and your students. All programs support critical thinking, creative problem solving, and differentiated learning styles.

Guided Tours and Interactive WorkshopsChoose from a wide range of themes that connect our collection to your curriculum during student-facilitated discussions and activities in the galleries. Before or after the guided tour, teaching artists facilitate hands-on art-making workshops that engage students in creative and problem-solving processes in the Greene Family Education Center.

Self-Guided ToursYou know your students best! Want to tailor your own gallery experience? Let us know how we can help you develop your own tours through the Museum.

Professional LearningThroughout the year, the High offers job-embedded professional learning workshops at the Museum and in your classroom. Visit high.org/educators for currentinformation on upcoming educator programs. Topics range from visual literacy to teaching with primary and secondary sources.

Clendenin Center for Creative Teaching: Online ResourcesEverything you need to book your field trip is available on our website! Visit high.org/educators for pre- and post-visit tour resources, key image PowerPoint presentations, standards connections, curriculum connections to our collection, and more!

Dear Educator, Welcome! We are thrilled to offer a new year of exciting school programmingjust for you and your students. At the High Museum, we believe in the power of creativity and innovation. How do we create the next generation of innovators, explorers, artists, and scientists of the world? Through the arts, of course! In this guide, you will find all you need to know about our nine curriculum-based guided tours and interactive workshops, upcoming special exhibitions, and teacher professional learning opportunities. We hope to see you in the galleries this fall! In appreciation,

Kate McLeod Head of School and Teacher Services

Guided Tours andInteractive Workshops

For Early Learners Pre-ViewThis tour is for budding artists in preschool, pre-K, Head Start, and homeschool programs. Children will be guided through an exploration of color, line, and shape through story time, gallery activities, and art making.

Through January 21, 2018, Pre-View will incorporate the special exhibition Painter and Poet:The Wonderful World of Ashley Bryan.

Painter and Poet: The Wonderful World of Ashley Bryan, Through January 21, 2018 Ashley Bryan’s illustrated books for children bring folklore and poetry to life. This exhibition presents works ranging from Bryan’s dynamic ink-and-brush drawings to his colorful cut-paper collages. Bryan’s sculptural work is represented by a selection of puppets, which he makes from objects he collects around his small island home in Maine. Ages: 3–5 • Length: 90 minutes • VA

Cost: 10–15 students: $100 flat rate • 16–30 students: $150 flat rate • 31–45 students: $200 flat rate

For Grades K–5First LookThe fundamental elements of art—line, color, shape, and texture—are the focus of this introductory tour and workshop featuring the Museum’s collection. Grades: K–5 • Cost: $9/student • Capacity: 96 students • Length: 2 hours • VA LA

Animals in ArtStudents go on a “safari” through the Museum and learn how artists have used different materials to depict animals and their habitats across cultures and time periods. This walk on the wild side includes a workshop.

Through January 21, 2018, this tour will incorporate the special exhibition Painter and Poet: The Wonderful World of Ashley Bryan.Grades: K–5 • Cost: $9/student • Capacity: 96 students • Length: 2 hours • VA S LA

I See LiteracyThis tour with workshop offers a cross-disciplinary approach for studentsto build visual literacy skills and construct meaning across the spectrum of literacy: reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Grades: 3–5 • Cost: $9/student • Capacity: 96 students • Length: 2 hours • VA LA

I See HistoryGuided by the essential question “What can we learn about people from what they made, owned, and used?” students will explore American history using gallery activities to connect prior classroom experience with the collection. Grade: 5 • Capacity: 120 students • Cost: $7/student • Length: 1 hour • VA LA SS

STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and MathematicsTailored for elementary school students, this STEAM tour with work-shop focuses on how artists are similar to explorers, scientists, and mathematicians.Grades: K–5 • Cost: $9/student • Capacity: 96 students • Length: 2 hours • VA M S

VA Visual Arts | LA Language Arts | SS Social Studies | M Mathematics | S Science

For Grades 4–12NEW! Freedom Over Me Performance, September 1, 2017–January 19, 2018Written by the Alliance Theatre’s Mellon Playwright in Residence Pearl Cleage, this short, powerful play provides context for appreciating Ashley Bryan’s recent Newbery Honor Book, Freedom Over Me. The piece gives young viewers a lens through which to view the story by providing a definition of slavery and its impact on humanity. Book this program along with a Celebrate Black History, Dikenga, or I See History tour.Grades: 4–12 • Cost: FREE • Capacity: 220 students • Length: 20 minutes • VA LA SS

For Grades 6–8 STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and MathematicsIn this tour and workshop, middle school students will discover firsthand how artists are creative problem solvers and thinkers.Grades: 6–8 • Cost: $9/student • Capacity: 96 students • Length: 2 hours • VA M S

For All Grades HIGHlightsHIGHlights tours offer students an overview of the High’s collection. Using twenty-first-century thinking skills, students can experience interactive tours specified to focus on architecture, women artists, narrative art, and more! Grades: K–12 • Cost: $7/student • Capacity: 120 students • Length: 1 hour • VA LA SS

Celebrate Black HistoryCelebrate black history throughout the school year with a tour that examines art by African and African American artists. Students will view depictions of African American life, consider art as social commentary, and note the influence of African art and culture on regional and national black history.Grades: K–12 • Cost: $7/student • Capacity: 120 students • Length: 1 hour • VA LA SS

Dikenga: Discover African ArtWorks from West African traditions will guide students through the African art gallery in the circular path of the dikenga, the Kongo cosmogram that charts birth, adulthood, elders, and ancestors along the universal pathways of life.Grades: K–12 • Cost: $7/student • Capacity: 60 students • Length: 1 hour • VA LA SS S M

Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary DesignOctober 14, 2017–January 7, 2018Making Africa presents the visions of twenty-first century Africa, a place of unbounded optimism, rapid economic growth, and transformative social change. The exhibition showcases the work of over 120 emerging artists and designers working in Africa and redefines design from a contemporary African perspective through a brilliant diversity of forms, from playful to political. In this guided tour and interactive workshop, explore how contemporary artists use design thinking through themes presented in Making Africa.Grades: K–12 • Cost: $9/student • Capacity: 96 students • Length: 2 hours • VA LA SS S M

Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At? November 17, 2017–March 18, 2018Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At? is the first major traveling exhibition of work by the late American artist Al Taylor, representing nearly two decades of his career. Objects, drawings, and prints reveal Taylor’s use of visual language. He drew no distinctions among his different media, which included graphite, plastic, wire, wood, and ink. Rather, each served to pose the fundamental question “What are you looking at?” Grades: K–12 • Cost: $7/student • Capacity: 60 students • Length: 1 hour • VA LA SS S M

Joris Laarman Lab, February 18–May 13, 2018This comprehensive exhibition of work by innovative designer Joris Laarman (Dutch, born 1979) and his lab is an in-depth look at the artist’s creative prowess and collaborative spirit—he works regularly with scientists, programmers, and craftspeople. Laarman’s intellectual and thoughtful approach to design combines science, technology, and curiosity with lyrical aesthetics. Innovative fabrication processes have propelled the Joris Laarman Lab to explore new methods of production and have made Laarman one of today’s most compelling designers.Grades: K–12 • Cost: $7/student • Capacity: 60 students • Length: 1 hour • VA LA SS S M

Images: Duro Olowu (Nigerian, born 1965), Look 12, from the Birds of Paradise autumn/winter 2013–2014 collection, cape: embroidered silk; pants: silk and viscose; top: viscose, georgette, and silk. © Photo by Luis Monteiro. Image courtesy of Duro Olowu. Al Taylor (American, 1948–1999), Black Piece (for Etienne-Jules Marey), 1990, Plexiglas, enamel paint, china marker grease pencil, wood, and wire. The Estate of Al Taylor, courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London. Bone Armchair (prototype), 2008, Joris Laarman (Dutch, born 1979), designer; Joris Laarman Lab, Amsterdam, founded 2004, maker, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from the Decorative Arts Endowment, 2008.163.

There are two ways you can schedule a tour:

1. Complete the school tour order form online at high.org/schooltours.2. Call 404-733-4468 and speak to a scheduling coordinator.

Tours are based on availability and must be requested three or more weeks in advance. If you must cancel your tour, notify the scheduling coordinator at least three weeks in advance.

One adult chaperone per twelve students is required for school groups. One chaperone for every seven students enters free; additional chaperones may attend at an additional cost.

Museum InformationHigh Museum of Art1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30309

Monday Closed

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Friday 10 a.m.–9 p.m.*

Sunday 12 noon–5 p.m.Hours subject to change. Visit high.org for current hours. *The Museum is open until 10 p.m. on the third Friday of each month for Friday Jazz.

Contact Information404-733-HIGH 24-hour pre-recorded exhibition and program information

404-733-4468 Schedule a student tour

Programs for TeachersThe High Museum offers an array of professional learning opportunities. Visit high.org/educators for the current calendar and descriptions of our spring seminars.

FREE Evening for EducatorsAugust 26 Enjoy a free night of art, music, photobooths, and activities, all while earning professional learning contact hours. Light refreshments will be provided while supplies last, and drinks will be available for purchase. Explore the High’s collection and special exhibitions, featuring the art of Andy Warhol, Ashley Bryan, Magdalene Odundo, and more! The event is FREE for teachers, school administrators, community educators, and up to five guests each.

Visual Literacy Workshop*Grades: K–12Participants will learn practical techniques for encouraging visual literacy in their classrooms through this hands-on, arts-integrated workshop.

Teaching with Primary and Secondary Sources Workshop*Grades: 4–12This workshop takes a look at our permanent collection via object-based learning. Participants will learn tips and techniques for using primary and secondary sources in their classrooms.

Making Africa Teacher SeminarOctober 28Educators can earn 10 professional learning contact hours in this all-day seminar that takes a close look at Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design. Explore artists and designers who use their work as a tool for economic, political, and social change. Participants will investigate a range of media, including film, sculpture, game design, maps, fashion, and more. Educators will learn strategies to address a central question of the exhibition: “Where do we come from, and where are we going?”

We Love Teachers!The High is happy to host groups of ten or more educators for onsite professional development meetings, free of charge. To make arrangements for your group, call 404-733-4468.

*Available by appointment a minimum of 6 weeks in advance. Please call 404-733-4468 to make arrangements for your group.

Painter and Poet: The Wonderful World of Ashley Bryan, Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At? and Joris Laarman LabThese exhibitions are made possible by Premier Exhibition Series Partner Bank of America; Exhibition Series Sponsors Delta Air Lines, Inc., and Turner; Premier Exhibition Series Supporters Anne Cox Chambers Foundation, the Antinori Foundation, Sarah and Jim Kennedy, Jane and Hicks Lanier, Louise Sams and Jerome Grilhot, and wish foundation; and Contributing Exhibition Series Supporters Barbara and Ron Balser, Corporate Environments, Peggy Foreman, James F. Kelly Charitable Trust, The Lubo Fund, Margot and Danny McCaul, and Joyce and Henry Schwob. Generous support is also provided by the Alfred and Adele Davis Exhibition Endowment Fund, Anne Cox Chambers Exhibition Fund, Barbara Stewart Exhibition Fund, Dorothy Smith Hopkins Exhibition Endowment Fund, Eleanor McDonald Storza Exhibition Endowment Fund, Forward Arts Foundation Exhibition Endowment Fund, Helen S. Lanier Endowment Fund, Howell Exhibition Fund, and John H. and Wilhelmina D. Harland Exhibition Endowment Fund.

Painter and Poet: The Wonderful World of Ashley Bryan This exhibition is organized by The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, Massachusetts, in partnership with the Ashley Bryan Center.

Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design This exhibition was organized by Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Funded by The German Federal Cultural Foundation. Funded by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.

THE GERMAN FEDERAL CULTURAL FOUNDATION

Major funding is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.

Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At?This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Support for this exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Joris Laarman LabThis exhibition is organized by the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands. Support for this exhibition is provided by Creative Industries Fund NL.

The High Museum of Art is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency—the National Endowment for the Arts. Major support is provided by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs.

Educational Programs: The High Museum of Art’s Department of Education is supported in part by a generous bequest from the estate of Eleanor McDonald Storza. Support for educational programs is also provided by the Goizueta Foundation.

The Art Access program offers free admission and bus trans-portation reimbursment for students at qualifying metropolitanAtlanta schools a high-quality, dynamic learning experience through the visual arts. The program is generously supported by The Kendeda Fund; the many individuals, foundations, and corporations who contributed to the Kendeda Art Access Endowment challenge; Zeist Foundation; West-Rock; and Kimberly-Clark Corporation. Additional support for the Art Access I See Literacy and I See History tours is provided by the Vera A. Milner Memorial Endowment for Children’s Education. The Art Access application deadline for the 2017–2018 school year is September 1, 2017.

The STEAM program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency—the National Endowment for the Arts.Additional support is provided by Georgia Power.

Teen programming funding in part is provided by AT&T.

Art AccessThe Museum wants to help remove the barriers and obstacles for schools that cannot otherwise visit the High. The Art Access program offers free admission and/or transportation to a limited number of students in all grade levels from qualifying schools that receive Title I funds in Georgia.

For more information, visit high.org/art-access.

Second SundaysEnjoy free admission and special programs from 1 to 4 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month. Designed for little kids, big kids, and the whole family, Second Sundays are for everyone. Visit us each month and experience new interactive, innovative family activities inspired by our collections and ever-changing special exhibitions.

Second Sundays are sponsored by the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation.

Cover: Duro Olowu (Nigerian, born 1965), Look 12, from the Birds of Paradise autumn/winter 2013–2014 collection, cape: embroidered silk; pants: silk and viscose; top: viscose, geor-gette, and silk. © Photo by Luis Monteiro. Image courtesy of Duro Olowu. Cyrus Kabiru (Kenyan, born 1984), African Sun, 2012, from the C-Stunners series, digital print. © Cyrus Kabiru. Photo: Antony Wachira. Chris Saunders (South African, born 1984), Lethabo Tsatsinya-ne, 2010, from the Smarteez series (for Dazed magazine), archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper. © Chris Saunders.

High Museum of Art1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30309

Find out about our special exhibitions, tours, work-shops, professional learning for teachers, and more! Visit high.org/teachers for the latest information about student tours and teacher programs.

Evening for EducatorsAugust 26 Art Access DeadlineSeptember 1 Making Africa Teacher SeminarOctober 28 Book a tour! high.org/students

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