Teachers Unite! Summer Institute 2013

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Experiment Station

On August 15th and 16th, seventeen teachers from our DCPS and DCPCS partner schools attended Art Links Summer Institute, a series of professional development workshops designed to gear up for the new school year. After two jam-packed days of arts-integrated workshops and conversations, we’re left with some awesome photographic evidence and excitement for the year to come!

During Summer Institute teachers participated in hands-on art making workshops, shared ideas about how to incorporate the arts into their classrooms, and explored the galleries. Photos: Natalie Mann

Teachers responded to The Migration Series using only colored pencils and collage materials. One teacher was particularly struck by all of the space in Lawrence’s Panel No. 47 while the other was intrigued by the hope represented in the blue outside the window. Photos: Rachel Goldberg

The program culminated with a supplies giveaway. Here you see the bounty of supplies offered, teachers eagerly selecting those that they need most for their classrooms, and the aftermath. Photos: Natalie Mann

Rachel Goldberg, Manager of School, Outreach and Family Programs

Natalie Mann, School, Outreach and Family Programs Coordinator

Congrats to our Partner Schools!

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Experiment Station

Last week, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) released the results of the 2013 District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessment System exam (DC CAS). We’d like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to our Art Links to Learning partner schools—Inspired Teaching Demonstration Public Charter School, Takoma Education Campus, and Tyler Elementary for their fantastic improvements! Well done! We’re looking forward to another exciting year of integrating the arts with you.

Middle school students at Takoma Education Campus applied mathematical concepts to Piet Mondrian’s Composition No. III. Photo: Rachel Goldberg/Natalie Mann

Students at Tyler Elementary explored abstract paintings for their unit on “The World Around Us”. Photo: Rachel Goldberg/Natalie Mann

Students from the Inspired Teaching School discovered connections between their city and John Marin’s Pertaining to Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street. Photo: Rachel Goldberg/Natalie Mann

Rachel Goldberg, Manager of School, Outreach and Family Programs

Student Art Exhibition Celebrates Gala Philanthropy

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Experiment Station

Museum educators and preparators collaborate on the installation. Photos: Meagan Estep

In honor of our annual gala next Friday, the museum is displaying a small selection of our outstanding student artwork on the first floor of the museum (works are located inside the main entrance, to the right and down a small flight of stairs). The gala raises critical resources for the museum’s educational programs, and the results are something to behold.

You will see paintings, relief prints, and mixed-media works from our Art Links to Learning: Museum-in-Residence program for Washington, D.C. public and charter schools. The 22 artworks represent only a fraction of student art produced through the Phillips’s nationwide K–12 education initiatives encouraging arts-integration, weaving together learning in the arts with other subject areas like math, science, or language arts.

The final installation, in one of the first floor galleries. Photos: Natalie Mann

In the Education Department, we are excited to see these impressive artistic accomplishments adjacent to work by artists including Giorgio De Chirico, Paolo Ventura, and Bruce Davidson. Feast your eyes on art from our DCPS partner, Tyler Elementary School, relating to a range of curricula including the solar system, with a three-panel series showing the order of the planets in relation to the sun against a continuous background of dark, starry space. Students from the Inspired Teaching School explored the theme “Art of the City,” and responded with abstracted imagery and poems of lonely city parks and neighborhoods in crisis. And make sure to check out work by middle school students from DCPS Takoma Education Campus, highlighting D.C. neighborhoods through beautiful line drawings of local landmarks including The Big Chair in Anacostia and Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street.

On view at the museum from April 22 to May 5, 2013.

Suzanne Wright, Director of Education