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Monday, December 13, 2010

the conservation of artworks

During week five of my Art at The Museum course, our class toured the conservation facilities of the St. Louis Art Museum. We listened to an expert in this field, Laura Gorman, discuss her methods and philosophy in artifact restoration. According to Gorman, museums decide to restore objects so that visitors may develop a superior visual comprehension of how artworks and objects looked and functioned when these were first made.

Ms. Gorman does not permanently alter the objects; every bit of paint and filler can be removed easily if curators should prefer to do so. Her work is really quite delicate and extraordinary. She matches colors perfectly. The students could not seriously discern between her work and the original fragments of the restored pottery she was working with. The restored object she had just completed, an incense burner, was a part of the Meso-American collection on display at the museum right now.
The museum also has lesson plan packets for sale. One of these is about museum conservation and restoration. I have not been able to locate it in their online shop. Teachers probably need to call instead to special order these materials from the museum. (314-721-0072)

The video above is of a similar facility located in DC.. Including a unit lesson plan in your art classroom about museum conservation prior to a field trip to an art museum is a great idea. Curriculum such as this would help students to appreciate the collections they will view and develop a greater understanding of why collections are preserved and displayed in the first place.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

interactive art museums & internet art websites for art educators

Last semester, I participated in a course offered to pre-service teachers at the St. Louis Art Museum. This class met early in the morning, one day a week, and lasted for four hours. I loved taking course work at this location. Museums offer so many different resources for art teachers. I've listed below some of my favorite interactive art museums on the web.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts , Virtual Exhibitions

NGA kids by the National Gallery

Destination Modern Art by MoMA.org

The National Museum of The American Indian

What Is Printmaking? from Saint Louis Art Museum

Monday, May 16, 2011

american patriot index for teachers

History Lesson Plan Links. Our history lesson plan resource page will be updated on a regular basis.

Early American Colonial Era (1499-1763) Links:

Lesson plans about Early American History:

American Revolution Blogs:

Magazine About Colonial Times:

Early American Life

American Civil War Era (1860-1865) Links:

Lesson plans about the American Civil War:

Blogging About The American Civil War:

The American Prohibition Era (1830-1933) Links:

Lesson plan collections about social studies in general:

World History Meta Sites for History AP:

American Patriotic Plays for School Children:

The Best Patriotic Crafts!

Patriotic Crafts from Making Friends - red, white and blue photo frames, beaded patriotic hearts, patriotic flag jewelry, USA visor, stars and stripes wreath, All American bird house, military themed crafts, tissue paper patriot wreath

USA Patriotic Activities and Crafts from Enchanted Learning - stand-alone star, patriotic pinwheel, craft stick flag, cascade of stars, string of stars, patriotic wind sock, patriotic plant pots, patriotic pebble, Lincoln penny pendant, US flag and eagles letterhead, USA Flag print out, USA flag printout with 13 stars and also 50 stars, fourth of July activity book, United States symbols, statue of liberty printout, liberty bell coloring printout, acrostic poems (Washington, Lincoln, Presidential), printout about Mt. Rushmore, all US presidents, American president wordsearches and much more than this!

The Giant Patriotic Collection of Crafts at AllCrafts.net - Every king of patriotic craft from wind chimes to patriotic swags!

DLTK has American patriotic crafts too. We love the cut eagle project!

Benjamin Franklin Crafts for Kids

More patriotic sites for kids!

Patriotic Poems. All patriotic poetry, patriotic poems and patriotic verse located here is in the public domain. Teachers may use it freely to create curriculum and worksheets for their students.

Presidential Links. The President of the United States is the head of state and the head of government of the United States. As chief of the executive branch and head of the federal government as a whole, the presidency is the highest political office in the United States by influence and recognition. The president is also the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces. The president is indirectly elected to a four-year term by an Electoral College (or by the House of Representatives should the Electoral College fail to award an absolute majority of votes to any person). Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected to the office of the president more than twice. Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent President, the Vice President assumes the office. This list includes only those persons who were sworn into office as president following the ratification of the United States Constitution, which took effect in 1789. For American leaders before this ratification, see President of the Continental Congress. The list does not include any Acting Presidents under the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

There have been forty-three people sworn into office, and forty-four presidencies, due to the fact that Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is counted chronologically as both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president. Of the individuals elected as president, four died in office of natural causes, one resigned, and four were assassinated. The first president was George Washington, who was inaugurated in 1789 after a unanimous Electoral College vote. William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office at 32 days. At over twelve years, Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest time in office, and is the only president to serve more than two terms. The current president is Barack Obama; he became president on January 20, 2009.

All The Presidential Libraries.

Presidential exhibits and museum virtual tours.

Our patriot links are perfect for young students and teachers. Learn the history of countries, read important government documents, and research politics, heritage, and culture. If you have a website that would fit under these categories why not write our staff and suggest a link? pickandprintgallery@yahoo.com

Historical Documents & American History Links.

Historical Documents & Canadian History Links.

Historical Documents & United Kingdom History Links.

Australian history websites

Australian Historical Texts and Documents

Manuscripts, Archives and Registers for Australia

Libraries of Australia

National Library of Australia

Australian Capital Territory Library and Information Services

State Library of New South Wales

Northern Territory Library

State Library of Queensland

State Library of South Australia

State Library of Tasmania

State Library of Victoria

State Library of Western Australia

Patriotic Organizations In The United States.

Patriotic Organizations In Canada.

Royal Canadian Legion

Vietnam Veterans in Canada

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

"Ferment" by Roxy Paine

The first view of "Ferment" by Roxy Paine.

Roxy Paine was born in 1966, New York City and is an American artist. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York.

Since 1990, Paine's work has been internationally exhibited and is included in major collections such as the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. His dendroid sculptures can be found at various museums and foundations including the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle; Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden; Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo NMAC, Cadiz, Spain; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. Roxy Paine lives and works in Brooklyn and Treadwell, New York. Read more...

"Ferment" by Roxy Paine. A second view.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Famous North American Painters Students Should Know?

Question: Could you list famous North American painters you think students should be able to identify by the time they graduate from high school and also show a sample of their work?
Answer: Well, if they could recognize these painters, they really would be well educated. Unfortunately, students educated in American public schools are far more familiar with Western European painters. There are many more painters I would include in this list but can not for fear of violating copyrights. Artists like Fritz Scholder, he is also an exquisite painter but I haven't any jpgs. of his work.

Albert Bierstadt, "The Rocky Mountains,
Lander's Peak", 1863, Hudson River School

James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in
Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother (1871)
popularly known as Whistler's Mother,
Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Read his letters here.

Edward Hicks, "The Peaceable Kingdom"
(1826), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

"A Bigger Splash", by David Hockney
1967, Tate Collection, London.

"Keith" by Chuck Close in
The Saint Louis Art Museum

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" is by German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. It commemorates General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. That action was the first move in a surprise attack against the Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey in the Battle of Trenton. The painting is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There are many copies of the painting, one of which is in the West Wing reception area of the White House.

"American Gothic" is a painting by Grant Wood,

in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

"The Builders" by Jacob Lawrence

"Boston Cream Pies" by Wayne Theibaud
in the South Dakota Art Museum

"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth is now
at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City


"Black Mesa Landscape" by Georgia O'Keeffe in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. O'Keeffe painted the majority of her landscapes at Ghost Ranch where she lived out the later part of her life.