Tenement Museum

Be sure to visit the Tenement Museum's website and check out the programs Sarah mentioned:

Education Information

Baseball Hall of Fame: School Program Follow Up

Just following up on today's presentation from Anna Wade. Below are some resources she shared with us:


Basball HOF curriculum modules
Baseball HOF revamped economic curriculum
Museum Education presentation

School Group Follow-Up

We will review and vote on these titles tomorrow. Email me if you have other suggestions.

Possible titles for school group:
Making a Life and a Living: Female Immigrants in the Late 19th Century
Coming to America: Women Making a Home and Life in the Late 19th Century
Women’s Work: Life in the Late 19th Century

We’ll also vote on this statement and 3 overarching learning goals for the program:

Statement:
This educational program complements the Heart of the Home exhibit at the Yager Museum of Art and Culture at Hartwick College. Through interactive experiences in the museum, this teacher-led program delves into the home and work life of women in the late 19th century. During their visit students will:

1) Understand the difficulty in making a new life and a living in American during this time period.
2) Learn about how culture influences home and work life.
3) Compare home and work then and today.

The teacher is Sandy Bright and her email is brights@hartwick.edu.

Information from last week, including deadlines:
*For each station, please provide a lesson plan including additional materials needed, 3 learning goals, bibliography and script. I want the lesson plan typed, please!!

What else needs to be done to make this a successful visit? (The logistics committee)
Pre-visit materials for teacher and class
Welcome
Flow Chart
Evaluation
Conclusion
Crowd control and safety

How will your time be allocated in advance of the program and during the program? (AKA- who needs to do what).

Groups: (where will you each be located this time?)
Flowers
Quilts
Immigrant aka Carpet Bagger (formerly calling card group)
Logistics (formally the dining group)

Deadlines:
April 22: Theme and outline established

April 29: Supplies list due (if more needed)
Pre-visit materials due (including letter to Sandy Bright)

May 6: Group lesson plan due (each group)
Flow chart due (Logistics)

May 11: Evaluations due (teacher and student) to professors for review

Resource of the Day from James Yasko

http://www.groupon.com/

School Program Resources

Quilt Activity:
http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/keepingquilt.html

Immigrants
Ellis Island: The Immigrants’ Experience
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/gilded/koman.html

Image (with carpet bag)
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/marchandslides.bak/PCD3638/images/IMG0020.jpg

Tenement Museum
http://www.tenement.org/immigrate/

Another resource for final paper

Here is another idea to apply to the Yager Museum's Quilt Exhibit and your final education paper:
http://www.moma.org/learn/programs/access

Quilt Information for Final Education Paper

Preliminary exhibition brief “From Geometric to Fancy: Coverlets from the Yager Museum of Art & Culture,” (Title tentative)
April 2010

Summary:
The Yager Museum of Art & Culture plans to develop an exhibition and related programs for a Fall 2010 opening. The exhibition is tentatively entitled "From Geometric to Fancy: Coverlets from the Yager Museum of Art & Culture." The exhibition will feature 16 to 18 handmade coverlets, which are significant regional works of art in their own right. The project also presents very interesting opportunities for multidisciplinary learning. The exhibition will include sections and interactives exploring ideas such as chemistry, color, and dying of fibers; weaving technology and improvements in the early 19th century; the role of home weavers and professionals; gender and weaving; design issues including both traditional geometric patterns and fancy (figural and floral) designs; and how these coverlets were used in the home and valued over subsequent generations. The coverlets all date from the 1820s through the 1870s, and were made in the New England/New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania region. The exhibition will provide visitors with a variety of tools for understanding and examining the coverlets, enhancing their visual literacy skills. A variety of regional scholars will be invited to participate in the development of the exhibition, along with an arts educator who is also a fiber arts specialist.

Project goals:

• The project will introduce students to fiber arts, considering an important moment in the history of this art form.
• The exhibition will provide an opportunity to show how science, technology, and art work together, demonstrating how tradition and innovation worked together in the creation of these visually appealing objects.
• Students will be challenged to develop a wider range of visual literacy skills, which will not only help them to explore the coverlets in the exhibition, but will develop a core of skills that are useful in viewing other artwork and in creating or navigating visual information in the world at large.
• The project will include three area scholars and educational specialists, who will work with staff and students in the development of the project and in its presentation in the museum. These scholars and educators will be invited to present programs to the campus community during the fall semester to increase engagement and interest in the exhibition.

This project will deepen the museum's research and collections files and provide an opportunity to see and understand this group of artifacts, which have not been seen for a significant amount of time.

Checklist of artifacts:
List of 22 coverlets in Yager Museum collection available (most with images of portions of the coverlets)

Information to come:
Exhibition practica students plan to conduct a short front-end evaluation to ascertain what HC students know about coverlets, the effets of gender perception on the artifacts, and what aspects of the interdisciplinary interpretation might interest them. Results to come.