Get hands-on and minds-on with fun activities designed to connect you to the Museum's art and science collection.
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Art & science activities for the entire family
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Kids And Family Activities
Students compare Mary Cassatt’s traditional Madonnalike woman with Sargent’s and Gibson’s images of the 1890s New Woman.
Students will create an artwork interpreting the voice of their community and write a comparison of their community’s voice to that of early twentieth-century New York City.
Students compare Minetta Good’s painting of a family selling household items and handmade goods in At the Country Auction with Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph Migrant Mother.
In this lesson, students learn about 1920s and 1930s design and how architects and artists expressed the Machine Age ideals in their works.
Students compare artworks while learning about life for young boys at the turn of the century.
Student will use a variety of resources (text, art) to learn about the art of collage. Students will use the artwork of Romare Bearden and the story “Me and Uncle Romie” by Claire Hartfield as inspiration for creation in their own collage.