Outreach Programs
2009-2010 Academic Year
The museum is pleased to announce the continuation of its educational outreach events this fall. Our goal is to introduce children to the museum, to get them excited about learning, and encourage them to be creative by offering fun, interactive educational activities.
We will offer hands-on, art-based learning this fall during two programs held in conjunction with the Renewal: Printmakers from the New Northern Ireland exhibition. Many contemporary artists featured in the exhibition are inspired by the Northern Irish land- and seascapes; they look to the sweeping mountains, the turbulent seas, the local boglands and the surrounding lakes and focus on color, form and space to convey the richness and expanses of these settings. Students participating in the programs will be taken on an interactive tour of the gallery where they will learn about the artists and their varied artistic techniques. Following the tour students will have the opportunity to create their own nature-inspired artworks.
Finger Painting Fun! (5 to 8 year olds) will be held Saturday October 3, 10:30-11:30 am at the Juniata College Museum of Art
Printmaking Fun! (9-12 year olds) will be held Saturday October 24, 10:30-11:30 am at the Juniata College Museum of Art.
To register your child, or for more information, please contact Jennifer Streb at 814-641-3657 or streb@juniata.edu.
2008-2009 Academic Year
After a successful beginning for our educational outreach programs last year, when groups of school children enjoyed tours and discussion in the gallery, then created their own narrative collages and paintings inspired by the works on display, the museum is pleased to offer two more programs this year. Juniata senior Museum Studies students Alex-Rae Campbell and Claire Wakefield will lead interactive tours of the museum’s permanent collection of Hudson River School paintings, then guide the children in hands-on workshops relating to landscape imagery. The first program, for 5- to 8-year olds, will be held on January 31, 2009, from 10:30-11:30 a.m., while the second program, for 9- to 12-year olds, will take place on February 21, 2009, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. The programs are free to the public, but space is limited. To register your child, or for more information, please contact Jennifer Streb at 814-641-3657 or streb@juniata.edu.
2007-2008 Academic Year
The museum is developing community outreach activities and offered two programs for elementary children during the Fall 2007 semester in conjunction with “Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints.” Emily Fitzgerald and Lindsay LaPrad, both senior Museum Studies POEs, provided interactive tours of the exhibition for 5- to 8-year olds and 9- to 12-year olds and led hands on workshops relating to Lawrence’s creative method.
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