Insight 2014–15 by Wexner Center for the Arts

This year’s Capital Day is recommended for K–12 language, visual arts, or writing educators, but any teacher interested in expanding their writing practice is welcome to join us. RSVP by calling (614) 292-6493 or visiting us online at tickets.wexarts.org.

RIGHT Stephanie Ibarra and Nives Quaye at Art in Action, photo: Katie Spengler. ABOVE Pablo Picasso, Nu au fauteuil noir (Nude in a black armchair), 1932. Oil on canvas, 63 1/2 x 51 in. Wexner Family Collection © 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

For more information, go to wexartenvironment.wordpress.com. To register, go to tickets.wexarts.org. General classroom (grades K–5), humanities (6–12), and science teachers (6–12) exploring interdisciplinary connections will also find the course of interest. Teachers may schedule their time flexibly while content is available. FREE for school groups

FOR STUDENTS K–8

Expanded Classroom

Contemporary Art in Practice Fun with Fiber

In our Expanded Classroom program, students tour an exhibition and then work with a local artist to explore a specific art form. For this winter’s hands-on workshop, Fun with Fiber, participants will experience work in the exhibitions Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present and Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars Experimental, Volume 1. Students will learn how the artists incorporate and manipulate fabrics and fibers to create an engaging dialogue with materials that are loaded with cultural, class, and gender associations. In the studio, students will be encouraged to push the limits of the resources they use and to explore themes of identity, inequity, and functionality as they create their own artworks. Workshops provided on-site or at your school. Areas of Interest: Arts, Social Studies, Geography, Humanities, and Media Literacy.

Guided Tours

Zoom and Other International Films for Schools DECEMBER 3–5 & 8 Each year the Wexner Center presents Zoom, a family-friendly international film festival where young people can catch a glimpse of youth perspectives from all over the globe through movies not available at most theaters. School groups are invited to special school-day screenings of select films from the festival. This year’s screenings will include Giraffada (2013), for grades 5–8, about a young Palestinian boy and his veterinarian father who make an incredible journey to transport a giraffe from Israel to the West Bank’s Qalqilya Zoo. Also showing is China’s I Swan (2012), for grades 3–8, which follows a young girl named Holly who nurses and protects a wounded swan called Snowy in order to cope with the death of her mother.

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FOR ALL STUDENTS fall exhibition Transfigurations Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection

Transfigurations features an exceptional selection of masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and Jean Dubuffet, and this fall at the Wex is your only opportunity to view it! The Wexner collection is incomparable to any other private collection formed over the last 50 years. Comprised primarily of figurative work, the show will provide fertile ground for discussions of portraiture, history, identity and gender, and the creative process. Resources are available to acquaint you with the work in Transfigurations. Please visit wexarts.org/explore for more information on the lives and practices of the artists represented in this extraordinary exhibition. Curriculum resources are also provided to support K–12 educators.

Ohio Shorts

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | 1871 NORTH HIGH STREET | COLUMBUS, OHIO 43210-1393

Teachers of any discipline are invited to participate and strongly encouraged to collaborate with educators in other subjects within their schools during the program. Participants can collaborate with local artists or organizations and are provided with resources to cover supplies, busing, and substitute teacher costs for multiple trips to the Wexner Center.

With 12 years of experience teaching Eco Art directly to high school students, the Wexner Center’s Director of Education Shelly Casto has extensive materials and resources to share with teachers around the world. Designed primarily for K–12 art teachers, this course will provide an in-depth introduction to the emerging field of Eco Art as well as a basic introduction to environmental science, activism, and culture. Teachers will leave the course with a comprehensive online curriculum packet and an array of ideas from fellow participants. Art & Environment will be available as an online-only professional development course for teachers in summer 2015. CONTENT OPEN AND AVAILABLE JUNE–AUG 2015 $75 course fee, Ohio State Graduate Credit is available for an additional fee

A Course for Teachers

Art & Environment APRIL 2015

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Application Deadline: April 17, 2015. Applications are available on our website and are now being accepted for the 2015–16 school year.

FRI, OCT 17 | 10 am–3 pm

Figures of Speech

Capital Day 2014 Cosponsored by the Wexner Center and the Ohio Art Education Association.

Art has the power to communicate across time and languages and can often serve to raise awareness about a social injustice, to function as a means of protest, or to help both artist and viewer work through interpersonal challenges. Using this premise, Art in Action positions teachers and their students as agents of change. Participating educators enter into a year-long partnership with Wexner Center staff to learn about the communicative strength of contemporary art and to plan transdisciplinary, projectbased curricula. Teachers work to guide their students as they explore a global, national, or local issue of the students’ choice, and then the students are challenged to raise awareness of or propose solutions to that issue through the arts.

Art in Action

Youth Division

NON-PROFIT ORG U S POSTAGE P A I D COLUMBUS OHIO PERMIT NO 711

All K–12 educators and administrators are invited. RSVP by September 19 by calling (614) 292-6493 or visiting us online at tickets.wexarts.org.

Dynamic Chicago-based artist, MacArthur Fellow, and past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Kerry James Marshall visits to discuss his career and the importance of art education. An internationally renowned painter, photographer, master draftsman, video maker, and sculptor, Marshall’s work explores race, representation, and life in contemporary urban America and highlights the invisibility of African Americans in the history of Western art. This talk also serves as the keynote address for the 2014 Ohio Art Education Association conference. FRI, NOV 7 | 7:30 pm MERSHON AUDITORIUM

Artist’s Talk: Kerry James Marshall

The Wexner Center offers tours of our galleries and our striking architecture. All tours are inquiry-based, with a focus on guided looking and discussions that support creative and reflective thinking. Give us a call if you would like to brainstorm ways of using our galleries or architecture as a curriculum resource.

Wexner Center members experience the best in the contemporary arts from an insider’s perspective with special access and member discounts. As an educator, you can save 10% on any level of Wexner Center membership you choose, because we value your service to our community. Head to wexarts.org/learn to find out more about this special offer.

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Beyond Transfigurations, we are preparing for another stellar year of programs designed to enrich both you and your students. Join us and lose yourself in creative writing for Capital Day, be transported to distant places as you experience our Zoom and WorldView films, and plan ahead to delve into Eco Art and environmental awareness with me next summer during my Art & Environment online course for teachers (a course is also available for your 11th & 12th graders). There’s so much to explore…we hope to see you and your students soon!

Teachers, administrators, and preservice students, kick start your fall with a tour of Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection. Not only will you have the opportunity to explore phenomenal works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, and others but you will also leave with fresh ideas for incorporating your students’ visit to the show into your classroom planning. After your tour, have a glass of wine and a snack with your colleagues while you learn about a range of other creative and enriching programs available for you and your students at the Wexner Center. THU, SEPT 25 | 4:30–6:30 pm MEET IN PERFORMANCE SPACE

The Wexner Center’s annual showcase for young Ohio filmmakers could provide the perfect opportunity for your next project. Teachers, plan a class project around making a video for the program, or encourage individual students to make their own work. We will even come to your school to screen works from previous showcases and answer questions. The deadline for submission is in March, and every April we host a public screening event and party, complete with prizes. All styles and genres are accepted—so fire up your imagination! Projects cannot be longer than 5 minutes in length.

Most Wexner Center programs for school groups are free. In addition, we support schools through bus and substitute teacher subsidies. This fall only, all K–12 schools planning to visit Transfigurations are eligible for a bus subsidy. Find out more on our website or by calling (614) 292-6493.

Free Programs and Bus Subsidies

Teachers, let our galleries move you on your professional development day out. Come to the Wex on Capital Day and find yourself surrounded by extraordinary figurative works by Picasso, Giacometti, and Dubuffet and inspired by the ideas of central Ohio poets and writers. Drawing on techniques and ideas from his or her own practice, each visiting artist will lead an activity designed to engage you with the works on display and help you channel your ideas onto the page. We will provide journals, pencils, lunch, and bountiful inspiration and you will leave with numerous ideas to take back to your classroom.

Teacher Season Preview

Visit our website early in 2015 for submission forms and details. Questions? Contact Jean Pitman at jpitman@wexarts.org or (614) 292-4614.

2014–15 PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Email edweb@wexarts.org or call (614) 292-6493 to register for or find out more about our programs. Check out our website— wexarts.org/learn—for details and updates on these and other programs for teachers and students.

In honor of our 25th year of innovative and stimulating programming at the Wexner Center, we have a truly special set of events in store. Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection explores breathtaking figurative works by Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, and Susan Rothenberg, collected by Leslie and Abigail Wexner over the past 30 years. Be sure to take advantage of this unprecedented moment, as these works can only be seen at the Wex before they return to the family’s residence. This exquisite collection of twentieth-century artworks captures a powerful view of the intersections between figurative representation and Western cultural history. These works encourage contemplation of gender and identity in portraiture and provoke in-depth discussion about inspiration and the creative process. Don’t miss out on this special opportunity. You can take your first look at the exhibition during our Teacher Season Preview night on Thursday, September 25.

DEAR EDUCATORS,

ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATORS

FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Zoom Preview

Stooge-a-thon 2014! FRI, NOV 28 | 1 pm

Back by popular demand! Avoid the Black Friday blues with this special afternoon program of shorts by the slap-happiest slapstick team in movie history—the Three Stooges. Featuring all the eye-poking, faceslapping, and head-knocking mayhem that made the Stooges an American institution of high-spirited comedy, this program will have audiences young and old nyucking it up with Larry, Moe, and Curly!

WexLab

Human Form in Modern Art SAT, OCT 11 | 11 am–4 pm PERFORMANCE SPACE FREE (Registration required)

WorldView

Cultural Intersections with Image and Identity WED, DEC 10 | 9:30 am–1 pm

This session for youth ages 13–18 will examine artistic expression with inspiration from live clothed models. Together, we’ll explore the historical context and figurative work of Dubuffet, Picasso, and Giacometti, and Columbus artist/educator Bryan Moss will take you through small experimental sketches with three kinds of 2D materials: vine charcoal, ink, and paint. We’ll also view the exhibition Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection with Wexner staff Jean Pitman, and discuss why the depiction of the human form is such a keystone throughout the history of art. Pizza lunch included. Space is limited to 15 youths for this session, so register now at tickets.wexarts.org. For more information contact Jean Pitman, educator for youth programs, at (614) 292-4614 or jpitman@wexarts.org.

Watch wexarts.org or call for screening times. School groups attending films receive learning materials that help students and teachers explore topics from the films and find out more about the countries from where the films originate. We also offer discussions with Wexner Center educators after some films. Bus subsidies are available.

Every thinking mind needs a world view. This half-day seminar builds on the cross-cultural understandings and perspectives that engage and influence many contemporary artists. This year, in collaboration with Ohio State, we will explore identity, social justice, and how images affect our understanding of race and civil rights. Our featured events in WorldView include the two exhibitions The Long March: Civil Rights, Cartoons, & Comics, presented by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and Remembering the Act: Archival Reflections on Civil Rights in 1964, presented by Ohio State’s Thompson Library Gallery, as well as the extraordinary documentary by Thomas Allen Harris Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. Visit the WorldView blog at wexworldview.edublogs.org for more information about these exhibitions and film. This program fully considers and engages with Common Core Standards. Bus subsidies are included. WorldView Residency Would you like to extend your WorldView learning experience? Please indicate your interest when registering for WorldView.

Pages Pages is an innovative multidisciplinary program that supports literacy and writing skills through the exploration of contemporary art, film, and performing arts. This program pairs educators and artists from the Wexner Center with high school teachers from across central Ohio in the planning of writingbased experiential learning opportunities for students. Pages students visit the center to experience gallery exhibitions, a performance, and a film and respond to those experiences in writing. The program curriculum fully considers and engages with Common Core Standards. All expenses including bus subsidies are provided for the program year. Visit the Pages blog at wexpagesonline.edublogs.org for more information. Application Deadline: April 17, 2015. Applications are available on our website and are now being accepted for the 2015–16 school year.

Art & Environment

Other Prom Help spread the word about our fabulous free alternative prom presented in partnership with Kaleidoscope Youth Center. Held in our super-cool Performance Space, Other Prom is an annual event for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies. Our event served 170 youths from 50 high schools in two states last year! Questions? Contact Jean Pitman at (614) 292-4614 or jpitman@wexarts.org.

Do you have a student who is eco-conscious and interested in contemporary art? Will they be in 11th or 12th grade in fall 2015? Here’s his or her chance to learn about the intersections of art and environmental issues at Ohio State while earning high school credit through your school. Blending extensive online course work and diverse field trip excursions, this course also gives students the opportunity to exhibit their environmentally informed art at the Wexner Center. The course meets most Wednesdays, 3–5 pm during the first half of the school year and it’s free, with supplies and transportation assistance provided.

MAY 2015

A Course for High School Students

Application Deadline: May 1, 2015. Find applications and more information at wexartenvironment.wordpress.com. In-school presentations about the program are available during the school year for groups of interested students.

Areas of Interest: Arts, Humanities, Writing, and Language Arts/English, Media Literacy, Social Justice, and Civics/Citizenship.

Surge Columbus

SUPPORT FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGR AMS

A Creative Circuit for Youth A collaboration between museums, libraries, and media organizations in Columbus, Ohio, Surge Columbus empowers teens to discover and pursue their learning interests outside of school by connecting them with mentors, cultural resources, and each other. Surge includes the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Columbus Metropolitan Library, COSI, WOSU Public Media, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Complete information and a list of upcoming collaborative programs for teens can be found at surgecolumbus.org.

SUPPORT FOR TE ACHER AND SCHOOL PROGR AMS

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Areas of Interest: Arts, Geography, Social Studies, Civics/Citizenship, Humanities, Language Arts/English, Social Justice, and Media Literacy.

School groups can also book tours of exhibitions at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum with Wexner Center docents. Visit cartoons.osu.edu for a preview of upcoming shows.

IMAGES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Giraffada (2013), image courtesy of Pyramide Films.

MILTON & SALLY AVERY ARTS FOUNDATION GENER AL OPER ATING SUPPORT FOR THE WE XNER CENTER

Flávia Bastos, PhD, discussing the film Waste Land as part of the WorldView program, photo: Katie Spengler. Miwa Matreyek discussing This World Made Itself with Pages students, photo: Jay LaPrete.

This fall only, all K–12 schools planning to visit Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection are eligible for a bus subsidy.

Participants perform during our WexLab: Girlz Rock, photo: Amanda Keeton.

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PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

Check our website at wexarts.org/learn for details and updates on programs for K–12 teachers and students and for families and teens. Call (614) 292-6493 or email edweb@wexarts.org to sign up for programs or with additional questions.