Every Sunday from 1-3 PM, families can experience a new adventure in art making free with admission to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. As always, the hands-on fun inspires children to learn more about the exhibits on display in the galleries, architecture or holidays and traditions.
October 2, 2011: Sukkot Solar Prints
To celebrate the Sukkot harvest holiday and the power of the sun, design your own arrangement of stencils, objects, and drawing, and use it to create custom solar prints.
October 9, 2011: Sukkot Solar Prints
To celebrate the Sukkot harvest holiday and the power of the sun, design your own arrangement of stencils, objects, and drawing, and use it to create custom solar prints.
October 16, 2011: Optical Illusion Art
Houdini was a master of illusion. He even made an elephant disappear! Explore the exhibition Houdini: Art and Magic and create your own optical illusion art to mystify your family and friends.
October 23, 2011: Optical Illusion Art
Houdini was a master of illusion. He even made an elephant disappear! Explore the exhibition Houdini: Art and Magic and create your own optical illusion art to mystify your family and friends.
October 30, 2011: Optical Illusion Art
Houdini was a master of illusion. He even made an elephant disappear! Explore the exhibition Houdini: Art and Magic and create your own optical illusion art to mystify your family and friends.
Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture
Lois Hetland: What Should We Ask of Art Education?
Thursday 2 February, 7 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA
Lois Hetland is one of the leading thinkers on teaching, learning, and visual art. She is a key member of Project Zero, the educational research group of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Few people can so powerfully make the case for the educational value of art as Hetland, who has long focused on creativity in personal development. For this lecture she considers creativity in relation to three other areas: product, process, and place. She explores the distinctive value of contemporary art, the role of cultural institutions, and the demands of the creative economy.
Hetland will begin by noting the ways in which art education is undervalued and how arts educators have attempted to justify it by extra-artistic qualities—achievement in non-arts subjects relevance to the creative economy—arguments that miss the spirit of a liberal education and, at K–12 levels, the “whole child.” Hetland will then discuss two key issues in detail: the value of Artistic Mind as the desired outcome of arts education and the wider value of creativity in society.
Her discussion will address the extended field of arts participants, contexts, and venues (including schools, community spaces, and museums); the value of basing art education on the work of living artists; and the four categories of creativity, as Hetland sees them: creative person, process, place, and product.
Her lecture will be followed by Q&A with Malissa Feruzzi Shriver, chair of the California Arts Council, and Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs at SFMOMA.
