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UT Dallas Students Make Creative Connections

Published May 1, 2010 Art & Teaching , Community Connection , Creativity , Friday Photos Closed
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Every year the Dallas Museum of Art collaborates with The University of Texas at Dallas to offer an honors course.  At the end of the semester, students create projects that draw connections between the discussions they have had and the artworks they have experienced. This year’s class focused on the process of creativity and drew to a close on Thursday evening. Here are a few photos of some of the amazing projects students produced: 

Combining Trenton Hancock's interest in storytelling with Tim Rollins' use of literature

Another take on Tim Rollins and the K.O.S.

This student was inspired to translate colorful flowers into fashion design

This student gave new life to Chihuly's work as each disc spins out from the painting

This work combined elements drawn from Vernon Fisher and Dorothea Tanning

   

A close-up including collaged images

Logan Acton
McDermott Intern for Teaching Programs

Photos from the NAEA Conference

Published April 23, 2010 Friday Photos Closed
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I was one of the educators from the DMA who attended the recent National Art Education Association conference in Baltimore.  While there, I got to do one of my most favorite things – visit art museums!  Here are a few photos of three amazing museums in Charm City:  The Walters Art Museum, American Visionary Art Museum, and Baltimore Museum of Art. 

Molly Kysar
Head of Teaching Programs

Go van Gogh at KidsFest 2010

Published April 12, 2010 Art & Teaching , Community Connection , Creativity , Friday Photos Closed
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Amy Copeland and I recently took the Go van Gogh van out to Firewheel Town Center for KidsFest 2010.  We set up shop in a booth on the square, setting out watercolors, colored pencils, crayons, and oil pastels.  We had an amazing turnout– over one hundred kids made a work of art! 

Justin Greenlee

McDermott Intern, Teaching Programs and Partnerships

À la plage

Published April 9, 2010 Art & Teaching , Creativity , Friday Photos , works of art Closed
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James McNeill Whistler, Sea and Rain, 1865, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker, 1955/1.89

One of the things I love most is hearing visitors’ responses to works of art.  And it’s really fun when those responses take a creative shape, and you get to hear an original poem or an elaborate this-is-what-I-think-would-happen story that helps you see the artwork in a new way.

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of giving a tour to a group of students from Bowie High School’s French Club, and they came up with great creative responses to a work in our newly-opened Lens of Impressionism exhibition.  Below are two poems based on James McNeill Whistler’s Sea and Rain.  To make these poems, students wrote descriptive words on small Post-Its (shown below), and arranged them to create phrases.  They also humored me by translating the words into French!

Calmant sérène mer
Il pleut à la plage
Admirant fantastique a la coast

Calming serene sea
Lonely raining beach
Admiring amazing shore

Il fait du vent voir ciel
Calmant pur le plage
Tranquil calme une personne

Windy looking sky
Calming pure beach
Peaceful calm person


Thanks, Bowie students, for a great tour and thoughtful poetic responses.

Amy Copeland
Coordinator of Go van Gogh Outreach

Walk Like an Egyptian

Published April 2, 2010 Friday Photos , works of art Closed
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Happy Friday!  I was listening to my iPod this morning and the song “Walk Like an Egyptian” by the Bangles came on.  I decided this song would be my anthem for the day.  I couldn’t get the following lyric out of my head.
      

“All the old paintings on the tombs, they do the sand dance, don’t you know.  If they move too quick (Oh Way Oh), they’re falling down like a domino.”     

Here are a few artworks that caught my eye today.    

                  
Relief of a procession of offering bearers from the
tomb of Ny-Ank-Nesut, 2575-2134 BC, Painted Limestone
 
                                                             
Head and upper torso of                                                         Mummy Mask, Egyptian:
Seti I, 1302 – 1200 BC                                                         Probably 1st – 2nd century,
Granite                                                                                        Cartonnage, pigment, and
                                                                                             gold leaf, Dallas Museum of Art,
                                                                                          Gift of Elsa von Seggern, 1996.63
   
Next time you are in the Egyptian gallery, strike a pose and “Walk Like an Egyptian.”  (Oh Way Oh)    

        
Until next time….   

Jenny Marvel
Manager of Learning Partnerships with Schools  

Found It!

Published March 26, 2010 Art & Teaching , Friday Photos , Museum Insight , People , works of art 1 Comment
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Back in November, I shared some photos from a project inspired by Dorothea Tanning’s Pincushion to Serve as Fetish.  This project is part of a new afterschool program we are developing in partnership with Thriving Minds at Dallas ISD schools.  At the time, I was testing the program with 4th-5th graders at Conner Elementary School.  I am currently working with Shawna Bateman at Twain Elementary School and Daniel Hall at Long Middle School, who are leading the program with their students.  In the process, I have learned a great deal from their experiences, insights, and feedback regarding the program.
Below are images of projects inspired by Mark Handforth’s Dallas Snake.  Through these projects, students learn about artists who use found objects as materials for their art.  Found objects are natural or man-made objects found (or sometimes bought) by an artist that are treated as a work of art just the way they are, used for inspiration, and/or used as materials for works of art.
First, the students chose several items from the collection of found objects provided by the instructor.

An array of found objects to choose from

 
Next, students selected materials that helped them connect their objects.
 

Materials for connecting found objects

 
One student created a time machine with cardboard, plastic beads, an old tv antenna, and other assorted items.
 

Time Machine

 Another student created a sculpture park with a lint roller handle, cell phone, bubble wrap, and paper towel roll.

The Sculpture Park

Saline solution bottles, foam tubing, a belt, and a pipe cleaner were combined to make binoculars.

Binoculars

 Students will see Mark Handforth’s Dallas Snake firsthand when they visit the DMA at the end of their program.

Dallas Snake by Mark Handforth

Spring is Almost Here

Published March 18, 2010 Friday Photos Closed
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It’s almost spring, and the flora is just about to bloom here at the Museum.  I’ve captured some of the blossoming trees along with some perpetual blossoms on vases in our Japanese Meiji period gallery.  Enjoy!

Molly Kysar
Head of Teaching Programs

Looking Sharp in Those Navy Blazers!

Published March 12, 2010 Friday Photos , Museum Insight , People Closed
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Gallery attendants are some of my favorite people!  They work hard and long, and are always excited to see me and any visitors that I might be bringing through the galleries.  Let’s honor them and the work they do!  I wish I could post pictures of them all.  Here are just a few to get to know.


Clockwise from upper left:  Muli has worked at the DMA for 14 years!  She likes to cook when she has some free time.  Always smiling, Jacque, has graced the galleries for 9+ years and puts together 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles.  Mr. Ronald counts this year as his lucky thirteenth at the DMA and plays a mean Scrabble game.  Eugene has worked at the DMA for 7 months.  He’s a guitar player in a band and paints too!  Ornery Ethel, or “Dean” as everybody calls her, has been a part of the DMA family for 2 years.  She loves church and shopping.

Nicole Stutzman
Director of Teaching Programs and Partnerships

Green Screen Fun

Published February 19, 2010 Friday Photos Closed
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The DMA Tech Lab is not only a great place to learn about works of art in our collection, but it’s also a fun space in which to explore new technology.  Last week, Nicole, Jenny, Melissa, Amy C., Logan, and I took photos in front of the new Tech Lab green screen.   I then used Adobe Premiere Elements to place us into some of my favorite works of art in the DMA collection.  Here we are in Isaac Soyer’s Art Beauty Shoppe, with Tom Friedman’s Untitled (big/small figure), jumping on the Gothic Bed, and popping out of David Altmejd’s The Eye.  Click on the photos below for a larger view.

If you would like to experiment with the green screen, visit us during Spring Break week–March 16–21.  Our friends in the Family Experiences department will be offering a variety of programs for families, including tours, storytelling, and green screen technology workshops.  Visit their website for more information.
Shannon Karol
Tour Coordinator

Finding Inspiration

Published February 12, 2010 Friday Photos 1 Comment
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When I am in need of inspiration, I often wander through the Museum galleries and look at works of art.   Admittedly, I am most drawn to artworks and spaces that focus on nature, have brilliant colors, or encourage moments of self reflection.   Below are a few of my favorite galleries.  

Southeast Asian Art Gallery

19th Century European Art Gallery

Sculpture Garden

Decorative Arts Gallery

 

 

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