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Friday Photos: Summer Seminar 2012

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Last Friday marked the end of Summer Seminar 2012: Teaching for Creativity, a week-long, immersive workshop for teachers of all grades and subjects to explore ways to foster creative thinking skills in their students. As a relatively fresh DMA employee, this Summer Seminar was my first. I was joined by eight educators from near and far (from Texas to Nebraska to Monterrey, Mexico!). Participants spent the week with the Museum’s resident creativity expert, Dr. Magdalena Grohman, engaging in group and independent creativity exercises, exploring creativity through art in the galleries, discussing current scholarship on creativity, and developing lesson plans to be tested in their classrooms next school year.

Thank you to this year’s participants for your insight, enthusiasm, and open-minds. Check out some of the photos from our idea-filled week.

Exploring cardboard as a medium
Testing out a lesson plan in the American gallery
Exploring art as a tool to teach creative thinking
The walls of our classroom bursting with post-its and pin-ups of ideas
The beautiful final product of a collaborative project facilitated by a Summer Seminar alumna
Team of teachers creating a 3-D transformation inspired by a 2-D work of art
Team of teachers creating a 3-D transformation inspired by a 2-D work of art
3-D transformation of Léon Frédéric's Nature or Abundance
Creative juices flowing in the classroom
3-D transformation of Jackson Pollock's Cathedral
Testing out one of the participant's lesson plans
3-D transformation of Albert Marquet's The Beach at Trouville
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Andrea V. Severin
Coordinator of Teaching Programs

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