STMR 605 Barnes Foundation: Tradition, Challenge, And Change

2 credits 28.0 hours
600 level graduate course

Reimagine your connections to art, learning, and teaching in the Barnes Summer Teacher Institute 2020: Tradition, Challenge, and Change. This four-day workshop is an immersive experience with the Barnes Foundation’s collection that spans many centuries and artistic traditions. This Summer Teacher Institute course will provide educators with ways to help students connect to art by exploring contemporary issues. Teachers will challenge their understanding of artistic traditions with tours and workshops from artists expert in a variety of art forms such as music and dance as well as visual art. Teachers will look at art from western canon through contemporary lens such as Afro Futurism, Restorative Justice, and more. They will tour Elijah Pierce’s America, a special exhibition of exceptional work by self-taught woodcarver, barber by trade, and preacher by calling, Elijah Pierce (1892-1984), who reacted to life in 20th-century America through his handcrafted works, which also reflect his experience as one of the first generations of African Americans born into freedom. The Institute emphasizes an arts integrated approach to lesson plan development. Teachers will be immersed in the objective method of the Barnes Foundation, and learn teaching strategies that help students develop their visual literacy skills. Teachers will take home lesson plan ideas and educational resources that integrate art across the curriculum into content areas such as: English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Teachers earning graduate credit must submit a five-lesson Student Learning Objective (SLO) project to demonstrate how ideas and themes from the Institute will be used in the classroom.

This course may be repeated for credit.
This course may not be audited.
This course cannot be taken pass/fail.