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Art Volunteers in the ClassroomFlossmoor School District 161
Heather Hill, Flossmoor
Flossmoor Hills, Flossmoor
Serena Hills, Chicago Heights
Western Avenue, Flossmoor
Overview
• Do you have a program?– Setting up a Program & Cataloging
• How to add to your collection.– Collection Development & Organizing Volunteers
• Making it fun– Presenting a Print & Facilitating Student Conversation
• It’s easier at the top– Resources, Materials, & Maintaining the Collection
Setting up a Program orTweak What You Have
• General Philosophy– Depends on Formal Art Curriculum/Instruction or Not– Art Appreciation vrs a Volunteer Art Program
• To Craft or not to Craft– Non-traditional Activities: pitchforks, mustaches, & shadows
• How many presentation do you need or have time for• Multiple Schools in a District
– Do you need to join forces?• Threaten by Administration• Haves and haves not• Funding
– Equity • Each school has equal number of prints in their collection, collections “rotate”• Equal number of new prints are added to each “bin”• Art in Action: local professional artists show their creative process
– Individuality (schools have freedom to serve their students’ interests)• Field Trips• Art in Action: Building Coordinator selects the artists
Cataloging• Periods & Categories
– Five Periods • Period 1: 25,000 BC to 0 AD • Period 2: 0 AD to 1800 AD • Period 3: 1800 AD to 1900 AD • Period 4: 1900 AD to Present • Period 5: Other
– Categories• Period 1: Prehistoric and Ancient • Period 2: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Dutch-Flemish Masters• Period 3: Neo-Classic, Post Impressionism, Realism, British School,
Romanticism, 19th Century, American, American West • Period 4: 20th Century American, Surrealism, Fauvism, School of Paris,
Poster Art, Asian, Cubism• Period 5: Photography, Architecture, ART21, 21st Century Artists
Collection Development • Collection Development or How to Select a Print
– Connection with Student (Lincoln’s Birthday, Their Artists (ART21), Geography in the News (Persian/Iran), Golden Age of Illustration)
– Speculate about what next in the student’s world
– 1001 Paintings you must see before you die/ general editor by Stephen Farthing
– Use the curriculum if you want, but there is value in an AVIC presentation given in late May
– Politely take requests, but YOU make the final decision
– Research before Purchasing• What Categories need to be beefed up• What supporting materials are available• Think about the presentation & activities, can you script a presentation in your head?
Think about what a student might say….• Pay attention to news items & keep a list of “potentials”
Organizing Volunteers• Building Coordinator Duties
– Recruit volunteers and maintain the school’s “bin”• Volunteers
– The more the merrier (apprentice the next generation of volunteers)– Solicit during high traffic moments
Registration & Fee Payment Day (teacher assignment)Parent Night
– A few good men (when a man is the Building Coordinator/ more men volunteer)– An Army of One: NHS Volunteers
• Location of Bin depends on the School storage
• Orientation Night (a 30 minute “training session”)• One night for all schools vs. A night at each school• Day session/Mid year session• Highly recommended for New Volunteers• Folder with the collection inventory & the handouts that are in your folder,
an invitation to this event, field trip ideas, list of volunteers with whom they may be sharing the classroom
– We introduce the “newest” prints and their coordinating folder– Model a Presentation (5 minutes)
• Not during Monday Night Football
Before you Present a Print• Coordinating Efforts
– Sign out Sheet: How do you keep track of the prints?– Multiple Volunteers for one classroom
• Formal decisions or see what happens?• encourage the under-appreciated prints
• Volunteers schedule time with the Teacher– If a volunteer has difficulty making contact with the teacher, perhaps
write a note asking or if the teacher is new to the school/AVIC• What day and time is best for the teacher• Does the teacher prefer a craft or not• Does the teacher like the print to remain in the classroom
• Sign the print out a week in advance• Prepare, Prepare, Prepare: Because it’s not about YOU.
– Who: give a little background about the artist’s childhood– What was happening in the world – When & Where (use the maps & chalkboard)
Presenting a Print or Facilitating Student Discussion
• How to Ask a Question? – Open ended questions are the key to a discussion
• Why did the Artist paint this particular piece? • Why do you like it or dislike it?
• What in the painting makes you say that?• Sensitive Issues
• It all comes down to sex and religion• Students get to shine!
– If you’re talking more than the students, something is wrong– It’s not who you think!– Justifies why this program is so important
• Parent “Notification”– Letter home (sample)– Invite parents to join in throughout the year– Search library for books related to the subject/artist for a literary
component
Resources & Materials:maintaining your investment
• Obtaining Prints– Today’s Host: Teacher’s Resource Center– Internet (www.allposters.com)– How to buy prints on a small budget
• Art Books, Coffee Table Books from Used Book Sales– Dissect the Book for Prints
• Calendars• Don’t let a small budget keep you from expanding the collection
• Mounting Prints– Invest mounting on 1/8th inch press board, not laminating
• Depreciation, Kids can “touch” the print, Carry it Around the Room, Leave it in the Room– Partner with local Business for mounting
• Reference material in a folder– After every presentation, volunteers should leave their notes/ideas or a picture of the craft
(supply list) in the folder to inspire the next presenter
• Label the back of the Print – (school information, Title, Artist, Period, Category)– a paragraph about the print
• Add new prints to the Inventory List
Maintaining the Collection
• Rotate “bins” if you have multiple schools– students will view a new set of prints– Custodial staff moves the bins in August
• Attach handouts, inventories to district website
• Become a line item on the PTO’s budget – budget $50-75 per print (or not!)– s.d.161 AVIC is 25 years old – part of the district’s history– Veteran Stories