STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT CONNECTIONS TO SCHOOL SUBJECTS
AND ART THROUGH VISIT TO CARNEGIE INTERNATIONAL
the same works while using the
Scientific Method.
Advanced Health students
researched integrative and
complementary medicine
topics, including Art Therapy.
At the museum, these students
focused on the art of Guo
Fengy, which is rooted in
philosophy, martial arts and
medicine.
Creative Writing students
identified and analyzed the use
of character, setting, theme
and plot in selected artworks
Franklin Fourth Graders looked at the work of Erika Verzutti and
completed a creative writing task that was inspired by her art.
to produce a series of short
narrative writings on-site
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at the museum. Back in the classroom,
School students visited the
they created poetry and short fiction
Carnegie Museum of Art’s
in response to the art they saw at the
Carnegie International Exhibit of modern
museum.
art and discovered the connections
Fashion and Sewing students created
between a variety of subject areas and art.
fashion concept boards based on their
Art, Science, Advanced Health, Creative
interpretations of the art they viewed at
Writing, Fashion and Sewing, Humanities
the exhibit. The concept boards reflected
and AP Literature students spent some
their personal style of clothing, as well
time studying the contemporary art exhibit
as their color choices, personalities and
to complete classroom assignments upon
body forms. From the concept boards, the
in literature, music, film, media, games
and technology to present their own
exhibit that represents their generation.
Additionally, they wrote a curatorial
essay explaining the major themes they
discovered in the exhibition and how
these relate to the “big ideas” in their own
collection.
Franklin Fourth Grade students also
got some inspiration with a visit to the
Carnegie International, to view the
contemporary art on display.
This new generation of art goers
(accompanied by Art Teacher Kristen
Ritchie and Fourth Grade Teachers Amy
Luzader, Dana Polis and Jennifer Gallaher)
prepared for their trip by using the
Museum’s website to research many of the
35 artists from 19 countries who are part of
this year’s exhibit.
Working in pairs, the students created
PowerPoint presentations about the
artists’ works, mediums, countries of
origin, training and any other pertinent
background information.
At the Carnegie, the students learned
what it might be like to create in the
style of some of these artists by trying
BPHS Humanities Students share their impressions
with Teacher Jeff Bouch.
Students had the opportunity to journal their
impressions as they viewed the exhibit.
It was an interest