RUTGERS-CAMDEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
STEDMAN GALLERY
GORDON THEATER
Third and Pearl Sts.
Camden, NJ 08102
856-225-6306
FAX: 856-225-6597
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Museum Education Program
This 90-minute program provides lively, interactive classes in the Stedman Gallery, followed by art activities designed to reinforce concepts covered in the gallery. Teachers receive resource packets to aid in integrating the exhibition concepts into the classroom curriculum.
The Stedman Gallery is wheelchair accessible and special needs programming is available.
Before your visit, the teacher will receive:
Confirmation letter for date and time of visit
Directions, a map, and instructions for bus parking
During the lesson, students will experience:
Interactive gallery lesson (1 hour)
Hands-on art activity (30 minutes)
After the lesson, the teacher will receive:
A classroom resource packet with information and activities linking the exhibition to the curriculum.
Museum Education classes:
- help develop visual perception and memory skills,
- explore the language of visual symbols and cultural variations in visual communication,
- expand descriptive vocabulary,
- exercise critical and analytical thinking skills,
- introduce concepts of art heritage and history, media and methods, and
- foster an awareness of the students’ own creative abilities.
The Stedman Gallery is wheelchair accessible and special needs programming is available.
Upcoming
Ornament and Narrative: Women Artists from the Middle East
October 15 – December 15, 2012
Grades K-12
Ornament and Narrative presents the work of women artists working in the visual and calligraphic traditions of the East, broadly defined for this exhibit to extend from Morocco to India. Many of these artists live or work outside their countries of origin. The multi-media works in the exhibition present complex and fascinating patterns, ornamentation, figures and narratives, often with references to popular culture or modern design. The exhibition includes work by: Roya Akhavan (Iran); Siona Benjamin (India); Lalla Essaydi (Morocco); Sissi Farassat (Iran); and Mitra Tabrizian (Iran). This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see and explore the art of women from multiple cultures and traditions around the world.
Ornament and Narrative is presented by the Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden center for the Arts in conjunction with The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society, a program of Rutgers Institute for Women and Art.
Visions of Camden
January 22 – March 1, 2013
Grades K-12
Camden, New Jersey has been the subject of many artworks; this exhibition explores some old, and some new images of the “City Invincible”. Camden is the home of historic RCA Victor, the Walt Whitman House, the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Campbell Soup Company, Johnson Park, the Riversharks Stadium, and more. Come explore Camden like you’ve never seen it before rendered in oil, acrylic, pencil, photography, and including 18th and 19th century artifacts recently excavated from 3rd and Cooper Streets, Camden.
Museums 101: How an Exhibition is Made
March 13 – April 24, 2013
Grades K-12
Did you ever wonder how the artwork gets to the museum? And, who chooses the artwork? Or how it gets up on the walls? And what is appropriate museum behavior? How many and what kinds of museum workers are there? Using the current exhibition, this class teaches the nuts and bolts of the inner workings of a museum, even a peek "behind the scenes".
Due Process (formerly Generation to Generation)
May 6 - 22, 2013
Grades K-12
Art by graduating students will be used to study a wide range of career opportunities in the creative industries through a selection of paintings, drawings, photography, graphic design, and sculpture. Computer animation shorts are a highlight of this exhibition.
PAST
ASSEMBLAGE: INTO THE THIRD DECADE
September 6 – October 29, 2011
Grades K-12
assemblage – definition - “work produced by the incorporation of everyday objects into the composition. Although each . . .object . . . acquires aesthetic or symbolic meanings within the context of the whole work, it may retain something of its original identity.” eb.com
Assemblage exhibits the work of fifteen regional women artists who have exhibited individually and collectively over more than 25 years. Assemblage artists continue to meet as a group to cultivate new ideas, present and discuss new artworks and artistic processes, and to foster artistic growth, A wide range of media and format will be on display, including ceramics, painting, collage, sculpture, and prints.
Assemblage artists are: Zola Bryen, Roz Bloom, Wanda Chudzinski, Käthe Chapman Grinstead, Susan Hader Golden, Sheila Letven, Lauren Litwa Holden, Lelsey Mitchell, Elaine Nettis, Brigitte Ruttenberg, Charlotte Schatz, Eleanor Schimmel, Marion Spirn, Pam Taggart, and Carol Wisker.
NJCCCS: 1.1-1.4; 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5; 5.2, 5.4; 6.2, 6.4, 6.6; 8.2;
NAECS: Visual Arts 1-6
WILD LAND, THOMAS COLE, AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPENovember 9, 2011 – January 6, 2012
Grades K-12
Wild Land, Thomas Cole, and the Birth of American Landscape Painting explores the story of Thomas Cole’s role as an artistic and cultural pioneer who helped give rise to the emerging concept of the American nation. Using a combination of large-scale banner graphics, immersive environments, media features, and other interactive strategies, Wild Land takes audiences on a journey with Cole through the story of his creative process. From an itinerant portrait artist to the founder of the Hudson River School, this landscape artist transformed sketches from nature into a new vision of the wilderness. This exhibition examines how the meaning of nature has changed over time into a source for creative and intellectual inspiration and how societies come to value the concept of preservation and live in balance with natural resources. Copyright © 2011 NEH On The Road. All Rights Reserved.
NJCCCS: 1.1-1.4; 2.2; 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; 6.2, 6.3
NAECS: Visual Arts 1-6
WORKING DRAWING: DRAWING AS A MEANS TO AN END:
January 18 – February 25, 2012
Grades K-12
A must for students and teachers who would like to study master drawings, these drawings by regional and national artists will show many different drawing techniques and media. This exhibition explores the many styles of artist’s renderings, including realism, abstraction, and everything in between.
NJCCCS: 1.1-1.4; 2.2; 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; 6.2, 6.3
NAECS: Visual Arts 1-6
CUENTOS POPULARES: LATINO FOLK TALES ILLUSTRATED BY LATINO ARTISTSMarch 12 – April 25, 2012
Grades K-12
Cuentos Populares features original illustrations from bilingual Latino folk tales published in children’s picture books. The illustrations enhance stories collected from many Spanish-speaking regions including Mexico, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Central and South America. Ten award-winning artists focus their lively imaginations, distinctive styles and colorful palettes to bring the stories alive: Lulu Delacre, Maya Gonzalez, Leovigildo Martinez, Felipe Davalos, Beatriz Vidal, Honorio Robledo, Esau Andrade Valencia, Amy Cordova, Susan Guevara, and Raul Colon.
GENERATION TO GENERATIONMay 7 - 23, 2012
Grades K-12
Art by graduating students will be used to study a wide range of career opportunities in the creative industries through a selection of paintings, drawings, photography, graphic design, and sculpture. Computer animation shorts using cutting-edge techniques are a highlight of this exciting exhibition.
NJCCCS: 1.1-1.4; 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; 5.3, 5.4; 8.2
NAECS: Visual Arts 1-6