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The Gallery comes to you as we explore the work of treasured artists from history and today. Programs begin with an interactive presentation and finish with a related hands-on art project.

Outreach Programs

Fractured Faces • Weaving in Tunisia and Peru • Monet in Motion • Living Landscapes • Alberta Through the Lens • The Wonderful World of Warhol • Off the Grid: Renewable Energy Art • Abstraction Reaction

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Join our team of inspiring art educators as they guide students through our ever-changing exhibitions. After touring the gallery, students embark on creative discovery in the ENMAX Gallery School. The AGC’s programs fuse learning with animated discussion, music, movement, drama, and hands-on art making. We provide a nurturing environment where students develop unique skills, and an appreciation for the building blocks of art: trust, respect and confidence.

In-Gallery Programs

stARTing Lines • A is for Art • All Senses are Go • Art Takes Shape • View Finders • Image to Imagination • It’s A Materials World • Frames of Reference

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Go to www.artgallerycalgary.org/programs/education-programs or phone us at 403.770.1358 to find out more about our exciting season of school and public programs.

2012 – 2013 OUTREACH PROGRAMS

2012 – 2013 IN-GALLERY PROGRAMS

FRACTURED FACES

StARTing Lines

Grades K - 12 • Two 90-minute sessions • $15 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, social studies

Pablo Picasso inspires this two-part adventure into the world of Cubism. Session one provides an introduction to Picasso and portraiture and students complete a realistic self-portrait. Session two explores abstraction and Cubism, the pioneering style Picasso helped create. Students apply their curiosity and new skills to create a Cubist self-portrait. This class encourages active engagement in looking from multiple viewpoints to see beyond the obvious.

WEAVING IN TUNISIA AND PERU

Grade 3 • 2 hours • $10 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, social studies

This program engages students with two of the countries highlighted in the Grade 3 Social Studies curriculum. Weaving is the common thread we follow to compare and contrast the cultures of Tunisia and Peru. Students learn about the weaving traditions of each country and observe how they inspire contemporary artists.

Exploring pattern and repetition, they create their own small weavings, combining age-old techniques with contemporary sensibilities.

MONET IN MOTION

Grades K - 6 • 1.5 hours • $10 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, science: grade 1 - creating colour, social studies

How do we define memory? Can mood, feeling or impression be captured by paint? Claude Monet and his Impressionist contemporaries asked themselves these questions as they explored painting outdoors, or en plein air. Some of the world’s most beloved paintings, the works of Monet, were inspired by social upheaval, and a need to reinvent the world’s understanding of art. Students explore light, shadow, colour, movement and memory while completing their own Impressionist sketches.

This program also provides an excellent basis for follow-up exploration in language arts and dance/movement.

LIVING LANDSCAPES: THE ART OF ALEX JANVIER

Grades 4 - 5 • 2 hours • $10 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, social studies, First Nations

Dené painter Alex Janvier is not only one of Canada’s most cherished artists; he is a survivor of the residential school system, an environmental activist and an eloquent advocate for the rights of First Nations peoples across Canada. Following a presentation that chronicles his earliest works through to his massive dome at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, students emulate the expressive lines, bold colour and abstract quality of Janvier’s work through a combined paper marbling and pencil crayon project. This program also provides an excellent basis for follow-up exploration in journaling, language arts and dance/movement.

ALBERTA THROUGH THE LENS

Grades 4 - 8 • 2 hours • $10 per student • Curriculum links: visual arts, social studies, science, first nations, language arts AND identity

The black and white photography of George Webber captures a province that is both dynamic and timeless. His celebrated and sensitive portraits of Alberta’s cultural communities – Hutterite, First Nations and Chinese – provide an ideal basis to discuss community, social identity, personal identity and cultural change. In a hands-on project, students also explore the choices photographers make in portrait photography by experimenting with digital cameras and creating photographic portraits of each other.

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WARHOL

Grades K – 12 • 2 hours • $10 per student • Curriculum links: visual arts, science: colour, social studies, language arts (k – 4); visual arts, social studies, language arts, drama, media literacy and identity (5 – 12)

Andy Warhol’s art remains a wealth of contradictions: simultaneously playful and political, simple and complex. Celebrating the artist who elevated Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s Soup to cult status, we offer two different programs, based on grade levels. For younger students, we journey to New York City in the 1960s, looking at the world of Pop Art through the eyes of Warhol’s seven year old nephew Jamie, then finishing with a colourful printmaking activity. For older students, we dig beneath Pop Art’s glossy surface to explore Warhol’s clever indictment of mass media, celebrity, advertising and pop culture, ending with a self-portrait activity that reflects Warhol’s printmaking practices.

ABSTRACTION REACTION!

Developed specifically for audiences with learning disabilities • 10 years old to adults • 1 hour • $10 per student • Curriculum links: visual arts, drama, music

The qualities of colour, line, texture and shape are the emphasis of this collective art creation project, where participants work in groups of 4 - 5 to create layered abstract works of art through taping, mark making, painting and collage onto 2’ x 4’ boards. While creating the works, participants respond to music and movement, transferring these forms of expression directly into their works.

OFF THE GRID: RENEWABLE ENERGY ART *Brand new & debuting this November!

Kindergarten • 1.5 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links: community and environmental awareness, creative and cultural expression

Why are some lines curvy and others straight? When does a line become a shape? This engaging, introductory gallery experience demonstrates that looking at art is fun when you use all your senses, including your sense of imagination! Students participate in lively movement, sound and observational activities as they investigate the many qualities of line and shape.

A IS FOR ART

Grades K - 3 • 1.5 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, language arts

Visual art offers a creative springboard for exploring the expressive nature of words. Working individually and in groups, students discover how well-chosen words can bring pictures to mind and how words and images can work together to express thoughts and feelings. Guided observational activities encourage students to really “see,” brainstorm, contemplate and describe.

ALL SENSES ARE GO!

Grade 1 • 1.5 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, science: senses, creating colour

Our senses allow us to appreciate colours in art and to imagine what those colours might feel, sound, smell or even taste like! Drawing upon all their senses to recognize and describe the variety of colours, lines and shapes in art, students expand and enhance their sensory knowledge of the creative world.

ART TAKES SHAPE

Grades 2 - 3 • 1.5 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links visual art, science: grade 3 - building with materials

Bumpy, square, bright or sticky - a multitude of shapes, colours and textures create form in art. In this multi-faceted art exploration, students explore a variety of resources to discover how materials can work together in two and three dimensions.

VIEW FINDERS

Grades 4 - 6 • 2 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, social studies: identity, science: grade 4 - light + shadows

Art provides excellent opportunities to look at issues from another’s point of view, to develop and share opinions and to learn from the observations of others. With multiple perspectives for reference, students develop and express their own opinions to find personal meaning while the technical aspects of art, such as light and shadow, are examined and interpreted.

IMAGE TO IMAGINATION

Grades 4 - 9 • 2 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, language arts

Stories are found everywhere in art once you know how to look for them! Using original works of art as sources, students learn how to gather and use visual information to develop characters and create stories. Gallery activities integrate looking and literacy by sharpening observation skills and building vocabulary while encouraging originality.

IT’S A MATERIALS WORLD

Grades 5 - 9 • 2 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links visual art, science: grade 7 - structures + design

Materials used by contemporary artists run the gamut from oil paint and carpet underlay to household food wrap and artificial snow. The medium artists choose are often closely linked to the messages they they intend to convey. Students investigate original contemporary art and experiment with the properties of unconventional art media to explore structure, design and meaning.

FRAMES OF REFERENCE

Grades 10 - 12 • 2 hours • $8 per student • Curriculum links: visual art, language arts, social studies: time, continuity + change

Some say art reflects the time in which it was created. If so, what does contemporary art say about today? Students explore the media, context and subject matter of today’s art and investigate language, observing, recording and responding to the art of our times while experimenting with new forms of expression to make their own statements.

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Grades 4-6 • 2 hours • $10 per student • Curriculum links visual arts, science, social studies

Art and science come together in this program on contemporary art to challenges the way we think about renewable energy. Students will learn about the different ways artists incorporate renewable energy technology into their work, from kinetic sculptures powered by wind to s:olar art installations that light up city streets. In the hands-on part of the program, students will design miniature three dimensional models of solar-powered public art.

Go to www.artgallerycalgary.org/programs/education-programs or phone us at 403.770.1358 to find out more about our exciting season of school and public programs.