Pre-K: Searching for Shapes
What makes a shape a shape? Do all shapes have names? Do all shapes have sides? How can an artist use shapes to make a work of art? Explore the ways that artists create with shapes through a hands-on gallery experience and story time. Search the galleries for organic and geometric shapes and put shapes together to make an original work of art in the Museum’s art studio.
Gallery Tour: Focus Gallery or Special Exhibit Gallery
Studio Activity: Shape Collage
State Standards by Discipline
Visual Arts:
Artistic Processes: Creating - I can make artwork using a variety of materials, techniques, and processes.
Anchor Standard 1: I can use the elements and principles of art to create artwork.
Indicator VA.CR AH.1.1 I can use some elements of art to communicate a story about a familiar place or object.
Pre-K: Creating with Color
How do artists use color to make paintings? What colors can you mix together to get new colors? Can you find the colors of the rainbow in the Museum’s Focus Gallery? Learn about primary and secondary colors through a hands-on gallery experience and story time. Search the gallery for colors and mix it up in the art studio by making a creative color
Gallery Tour: Focus Gallery or Special Exhibit Gallery
Studio Activity: Color Wheel Creation
State Standards by Discipline
SC Visual Arts Standards:
Artistic Processes: Creating - I can make artwork using a variety of materials, techniques, and processes.
Anchor Standard 1: I can use the elements and principles of art to create artwork.
Indicator VA.CR AH.1.1 I can use some elements of art to communicate a story about a familiar place or object.
The Art of William Henry Johnson
Elementary
Who was William Henry Johnson? Why did he choose to paint the way he did? How do his paintings help us connect to Pee Dee History? Learn about Johnson’s experiences growing up as an African American in Florence, South Carolina in the early 1900’s through a hands-on gallery experience. Explore his paintings that tell stories about everyday life in the rural south and tell your own story through a printmaking activity in the Museum’s art studio for 5th grade.
Gallery Tour: Pee Dee History Road (Special Note on Miller’s Store) and Focus Gallery (Art of WHJ)
Studio Activity: Art Classroom: WHJ Printmaking Activity
State Standards by Discipline
Visual Arts:
Artistic Processes: Responding - I can evaluate and communicate about the meaning in my artwork and the artwork of others.
Anchor Standard 5: I can interpret (read) and evaluate the meaning of an artwork.
5th Grade Social Studies
Standard 2: Demonstrate an understanding of how international events and conditions during the early 20th Century (i.e., 1910–1940) affected the United States and South Carolina. Enduring Understanding: In the early 20th Century, the economies of the United States and South Carolina experienced a boom-and-bust period. This situation led to significant government intervention in order to stimulate the economy.
The student will:
5.2.CX Contextualize the post-war economic climate on the cultural landscape throughout the United States and South Carolina. This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into post World War I changes in the U.S., including the “Roaring Twenties,” the Harlem Renaissance, the role of women outside of the home, and cultural changes for African Americans. (William H. Johnson)
5.2.E: Evaluate multiple perspectives from the period including the economic, political and social impacts of World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal using primary and secondary sources.
Middle School
30 student limit for this tour offering
Who was William Henry Johnson? Why did he choose to paint the way he did? How do his paintings help us connect to Pee Dee History? Learn about Johnson’s experiences growing up as an African American in Florence, South Carolina in the early 1900’s through a hands-on gallery experience. Explore his paintings that tell stories about everyday life in the rural south and create your own William H. Johnson inspired still-life in the studio.
Gallery Tour: Focus Gallery (Art of WHJ)
Studio Activity: Art Classroom: WHJ Inspire Watercolor Still Life
State Standards by Discipline
Visual Arts:
Artistic Processes: Responding- I can evaluate and communicate about the meaning in my artwork and the artwork of others.
Anchor Standard 5: I can interpret (read) and evaluate the meaning of an artwork.
High School
30 student limit for this tour offering
Who was William Henry Johnson? Why did he choose to paint the way he did? How do his paintings help us connect to Pee Dee History? Learn about Johnson’s experiences growing up as an African American in Florence, South Carolina in the early 1900’s through a hands-on gallery experience. Explore his paintings that tell stories about everyday life in the rural south and create your own portrait in the style of William H. Johnson.
Gallery Tour: Pee Dee History Gallery Road (Special Note on Miller’s Store and Girl in the Green Dress) and Focus Gallery (Art of WHJ)
Studio Activity: WHJ Inspired Portrait
State Standards by Discipline
Visual Arts:
Artistic Processes: Connecting: I can relate artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context Benchmark VA.C.NH. 6 I can identify and use different artistic styles, from various cultures and time periods.
Gallery Sketch Sessions with Optional Writing Session
What does observation teach us? How does it shape and/or influence our own work? Observe & learn from this closer look by creating sketches based off the work of other painters within the Museum's Collection. Optional personal artist statement writing session.
Gallery Tour: Focus Gallery or Special Exhibits Gallery Studio Activity: Gallery Sketch Session following Tour
State Standards by Discipline
Visual Arts:
Artistic Processes: Responding- I can evaluate and communicate about the meaning in my artwork and the artwork of others.
Anchor Standard 5: I can interpret (read) and evaluate the meaning of an artwork.
World Language Gallery Visits
Is language limited to the classroom? Or can it be used in other settings to describe or express opinions? Explore new spaces in which to put your language skills to use. Gallery tours will allow time for teacher facilitated pair share session in the target language utilizing vocabulary related to identifying objects, colors, expressing opinions and describing.
Gallery Tour: Focus Gallery or Special Exhibits Gallery
Studio Activity: Color wheel creation, labeled in target language
State Standards by Discipline
Modern World Language:
I can communicate in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed conversations on both very familiar and everyday topics, using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions.
NOVICE LOW: I can express basic preferences or feelings, using practiced or memorized words and phrases, with the help of gestures or visuals.
NOVICE MID: I can express my own preferences or feelings and react to those of others, using a mixture of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and questions.
NOVICE HIGH: I can express, ask about, and react to preferences, feelings, or opinions on familiar topics, using simple sentences most of the time and asking questions to keep the conversation on topic.
