The next phase of our ArtPrize for Kids: Language Connections Guide for 2012. Thanks again to our friends at grkids.com for the work done on creating the Tour!
Here are picks from Stop #15 of the 2012 Kids’ ArtPrize Tour . For each, we’ve added some language prompts for building those neural pathways for all ages. Just a note – you don’t have to ask all the question! Pick the ones that work for you!!
#15: Grand Rapids Art Museum
101 Monroe Center Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Some overall questions for this stop:
- How are the exhibits at this stop alike?
- How are the exhibits at this stop different?
- How is this stop alike or different from the stops we’ve already visited?
- What colors do you see?
- The faces show up as shadows. Can you create any images with shadows?
- These are made with origami paper. Do you know what origami is? [the art of paper folding]
- This artist uses squares. Where else could we find a lot of squares?
- This piece shows the silhouettes of people around Grand Rapids. Do you know where else we could find art or images of people around town?
- Does this piece remind you of any stories you know?
- How many elephants do you see?
- What other animals can you find?
- Elephant starts with the /eh/ sound. Can you find anything else that starts with that sound?
- The elephants were drawn life size. Do you think any of the other animals are real-life size?
- If this was real, what do you think we might hear? What might we smell?
- This piece was all drawn with pencil. How long do you think it took her? What kinds of things do you think you could spend that much time doing?
- This piece is a triptych (trip-tick). That means a picture that is created in three panels. Can you see the three different panels? What’s different about each of these panels?
- A menagerie [men-a-jer-ee] is a collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially for exhibition. How does that description fit this piece?
- Does this piece remind you of any stories you know?
- An apparatus is a complicated device or tool. Can you think of anything else we could call an apparatus?
- Revolution means one complete turn. What happens as the device makes its turns?
- Have you ever seen tools like this one?
- How would you describe the drawing this device is making?
- Do you see any shapes?
- Does this remind you of any stories you know?
Ta-Da
Follow-up activities could include looking up information on elephants or other wild animals; researching turntables or music players; creating some shadow images; creating silhouettes by tracing shadows onto paper; trying some origami projects; spirograph is a “vintage” toy that used to make images like the turntable piece – they even have them for sidewalk chalk in some places; trying to create a triptotych by drawing or making a three panel collage; describing one of these pieces to someone who wasn’t there with you.
Includes machines (automaton) that draw
Next: Fifth Third Bank/Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Stop #16 on the 2012 Kids’ ArtPrize Tour
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