Field Trip
We welcome you to explore the museum on your own as well!
Field Trip
Extend your in-gallery learning and get creative with an artmaking workshop.
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Explore the collection with the earth in mind. Consider how environmental concerns are woven into the art making and viewing processes.
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Explore ways objects and artworks display or challenge ideas about power and privilege. What is power? Who has power and why? What is your own power?
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We can view art through many different lenses to explore our world and our identities. Art can reflect who we are and help us understand ourselves and others better.
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A Field Trip Experience for Grades 6-12
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An Introductory Tour for Grades 3-5
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An Introductory Tour for Kindergarten through 2nd Grade
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A Creative Thinking Tour for Pre-K Students
About the Art
Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw, Cherokee, American)
2013
The structure of this sculpture was inspired by the parfleche (pronounced “par-flesh”) containers and travois (pronounced “tra-voy” or “trav-wa”) that were used by Native American tribes from the Plains. A travois was typically made from tipi poles, and would have been pulled by a horse or dog. Nomadic tribes used them to transport their belongings, which were often stored in parfleches. This word is thought to have come from the French words for “to parry (defend),” parer, and “arrow,” fleche, and originally referred to rawhide shields or body armor.
About the Art
Edgar Hilaire Degas (French)
1880
While living and working in Paris, Degas frequently attended the Paris Opera, and became intrigued with the performers and musicians he saw there, including ballet dancers. Dancers became some of Degas’s favorite subject matter, as they provided a way to investigate movement and his love of materials. He rendered them in charcoal, oil paint, prints, pastel, watercolor, wax, and clay. Degas would often portray the dancers rubbing sore muscles, stretching, gossiping, or prepping for a number on stage. Few of his works show the dancers actually on stage performing.
