Young Artists Celebrate Their Work

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Experiment Station

Tyler Elementary School Students create storyboards inspired by Franz Marc’s Deer in the Forest I. Photo: James R. Brantley

On May 14 and 16 we wrapped up another successful year of the Art Links to Learning: Museum-in-Residence program with two artists’ receptions for 350 students from Tyler Elementary School and Takoma Education Campus. Students enjoyed seeing their work in the current Young Artists Exhibition and venturing out into the galleries before school’s out for summer!

Natalie Mann, School, Outreach, and Family Programs Coordinator

Takoma Education Campus middle school students settle into the auditorium on May 16. Photo: James R. Brantley

Tyler Elementary School students peruse the Young Artists Exhibition featuring their class’s collaborative artwork. Photo: James R. Brantley

Putting Their Own Spin on the Classics

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Experiment Station

Last week preschool and kindergarten students from Tyler Elementary School took cues from the masters. In the art workshop, preschoolers experimented with different tools to make abstract expressionist paintings, just like Jackson Pollock. Later in the day kindergarteners drew their own versions of Arthur Dove’s Cows in Pasture (1935) and Georgia O’Keeffe’s Red Hills, Lake George (1927).

Natalie Mann, School, Outreach, and Family Programs Coordinator

Photos: Natalie Mann

500 Art Stars Attend Their Opening

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Experiment Station

Students from Takoma Education Campus explore paintings in the galleries

On January 16 and 17, we celebrated the artistic and academic accomplishments of approximately 500 students, teachers, school administrators, and families from Tyler Elementary and Takoma Education Campus—the museum’s two DC Public Schools partner schools that participate in our Art Links to Learning: Museum in Residence program! Read more from the students’ perspectives in Tuesday’s edition of Washington Post KidsPost.

Ms. Lopez’s 3rd/4th grade class discuss what’s happening in Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party

Ms. Frey’s first grade class from Takoma Education Campus in front of their artwork

Tyler students cheer on their teachers in the auditorium at the Artists Reception

Teachers from Tyler Elementary who participated in Art Links during the Fall of 2012