Exhibition+as+Pedagogy

**Saturday, March 21, 2015**
8:30AM–2:30PM Ryan Education Center, Studio C $50; 5 CPDUs

//Exhibitions reflect the ideas of museum professionals including curators, designers, educators, and media relations experts as well as current values informing how museums view the role of visitors in the construction of their own knowledge. In this workshop we will use the museum as a laboratory to critically examine how exhibitions function as pedagogy and consider the variety of decisions and criteria that culminate in exhibitions with distinctive identities and messages. Participants will work together to develop exhibition proposals that foster student-centered learning and investigate how exhibition design intersects with pedagogy. Ideas from this workshop can be applied to a variety of scenarios, including developing curriculum, planning tours, organizing school-based exhibitions, or designing classroom presentations.// //[|Go to AIC program page]//

Program Facilitator: Georgina Valverde
Guest Speakers*: Kelly McKee and Felicia Valentine Mings Teacher Programs Intern: Shannon Barnes

a free, online digital portfolio. Kelly also demonstrated how she uses [|Google Cultural Institute] in her classroom. To read about this project in the news: [|click here] || Academy and Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program that provides specialized training for students across the United States from groups historically underrepresented in the curatorial field or those who support the goal of promoting inclusive, pluralistic museums. For more information: [|click here] ||
 * ***Kelly McKee,** World History teacher at Lake Forest High School, Illinois ||
 * Kelly shared an inspiring educational project that she has created with her students through [|Pathbrite],
 * ***Felicia Valentine Mings**, Coordinator, Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship Program at AIC ||
 * Felicia discussed her role as the Art Institute of Chicago Coordinator for the Andrew W. Mellon Summer

**Educator Resources**
Theory into Practice" || || //Curator//, The Museum Journal || Journal article; narrative on the development of an inclusive, participatory historical exhibition in Pontlevoy, France. || Exhibit as Experienced" ||  || //Curator//, The Museum Journal || Journal article; exploring the idea of meaningful visitor experience through a curatorial lens. || Exhibitions 1972-2013" || || //Curator//, The Museum Journal || Journal article; the museum exhibition as a narrative environment, as demonstrated by the British Museum, and analytical models of Russian theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. || NAEA || Magazine article; elaborates on educational benefits of student art exhibitions on behalf of student and educator. || Purposes of Art Display in a Saturday Art School Context" ||  || //Art Education// Magazine, NAEA || Magazine article; breaks down the definition and educational possibilities of the "exhibition." || Interpretation Model" || || Chapter 6 of the book, //Multiculturalism in Art// //Museums Today// || Book chapter; introduces a diversity model of museum teaching through narrative of an inclusive art exhibition held in Arizona. || Sense in Art and Education" ||  || Chapter of the book, //Rethinking Contemporary// //Art and Multicultural Education,// New Museum, NY || Book chapter; a discussion of teaching contemporary art in the classroom, museum as metaphor for the classroom, and an argument in support of "universal teaching." || and Museum Education" || || //Journal of Museum Education//, Museum Education Roundtable || Journal article; museum educators are using Curriculum Theory in order to promote reflective and critical conversations in the gallery. || Display and Representation" ||  || //Visual Arts Research,// University of Illinois Press || Journal article; illustrating importance and ways in which a museum represents voice and perspective behind an exhibition, ex: artists Fred Wilson, Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Bronx Project || The Responsibility to Open Minds" || || //Journal of Museum Education//, Museum Education Roundtable || Journal article; call for museums to consider the presentation of collection in terms of the viewer, the museum as a social instrument. || Museum Education Roundtable || Journal article; an interesting look into how exhibition designers, curators, and educators may consider the space in which visitor experience may occur. || a 21st Century Art Education" ||  || //Art Education// Magazine, NAEA || Magazine article; an essential art educator tool, proposal for new fundamental principals in art education. || to Teach Conceptual Skills" || || //Art Education// Magazine, NAEA || Magazine article; highlighting the idea of conceptual collage and using contemporary art to reveal the conceptual and cognitive process in creating art. || //The Frame and the Mirror:// //On Collage and the Postmodern// || Book chapter; a philosophical look at the significance of collage, reflection, and aesthetics. || Knowledge about Race: Implications for Transformative Teaching" ||  || //Educational Researcher//, American Educational Research Association || Journal article; concerning transformative education and historical construction of race. || Middlebury College Publications || Journal article, a contemporary discussion of the Eiffel tower. || in a two-dimensional work of art. Grade Level: 4 || questions, activity ideas, and a glossary. Grade Level: all || and examine a work of art to provide inspiration for a collage-making exercise. Grade Level: 3-5 ||
 * **Title** || **Downloadable** **PDF** || **Source** || **Notes/ Description** ||
 * ~ **//Related Reading//** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||
 * "Balade Blanche: Putting New Museum
 * "The Exhibit as Planned Versus the
 * "Narrative Discourses in British Museum
 * "Exhibiting Student Art" || [[file:ArtEdStudentArt.pdf]] || //Art Education// Magazine,
 * "What is Exhibition For? Considering the
 * "Multiculturalism and the Supported
 * "What's In It for Me? Radical Common
 * "Shared Journeys: Curriculum Theory
 * "Museum Culture and the Inequities of
 * "Museums and Knowledge:
 * "Sending them Home Alive" || [[file:Sending Them Home Alive.pdf]] || //Journal of Museum Education//,
 * "Postmodern Principals: In Search of
 * "Visible Thinking: Using Contemporary Art
 * "Kant and Collage" || [[file:Kant and Collage.pdf]] || Chapter of the book,
 * "The Historical Reconstruction of
 * "Eiffel's Tower" || [[file:eiffel.pdf]] || //New England Review,//
 * ~ **//Related Lesson Plans//** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||
 * =====Finding Polygons in Cubist Art===== || [[file:Polygons_Cubism.pdf]] || [|Link to Resource Page] || Students explore geometric properties and relationships
 * //Portrait of Sylvette David// by Pablo Picasso || [[file:Portrait_Picasso.pdf]] || [|Link to Resource Page] || This teaching packet includes an essay, discussion
 * Surrealist Games || [[file:Surrealist_games.pdf]] || [|Link to Resource Page] || Students use a Surrealist word game to learn parts of speech

**Further Exploration**
//**[|Decidedly Surreal: The Bindings of Mary Louise Reynolds at the AIC Ryerson & Burnham Libraries]**// //**[|Online Index of Mary Louise Reynolds Collection]**// //**[|Champs de Mars: The Red Tower by Robert Delaunay]**//
 * //[|Shatter, Rupture, Break at the Art Institute of Chicago]//**