Weatherspoon Art Museum

Education programs at the museum allow students to explore the modern and contemporary paintings, sculpture, photographs and other works of art housed there.

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• Timeline of Art History A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art featuring works from around the world remarkable for both form and function: mosaic and tapestry, cloth and wood, architectural and decorative.
• Art Access Examines objects from various areas of The Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection to enrich visitors' understanding of their content, style, and historical context.
• Artcyclopedia An online database of over 125,000 works of art. Includes images, glossaries, and short definitions of various art movements.
• Lesson plan: What Do YOU See? (Post-Visit) In this lesson, students will use observations and reflections made while visiting the Ackland Art Museum to draw conclusions about interpreting artwork (and other works/events), make quality scientific observations, and see how these concepts are related. Students will be reproducing artwork they viewed at the museum, sharing their personal interpretations of various works, and analyzing how the presentation of information (in any situation) can influence our interpretations of a work or event. This lesson is the final lesson in the series of lessons, "What Do YOU See?", which uses the Ackland Art Museum as a resource.
• Lesson plan: "What Do YOU See?" (Visit) This lesson outlines activities for students to complete while visiting the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC. Students will observe and reflect upon a variety of artwork. In doing so, they will develop observation and communication skills, and learn to understand and appreciate others' interpretations and opinions of works of art. This lesson applies skills learned in the previous lesson, "What Do You See" (Pre-Visit).
  
  This lesson may be adapted for use in a school/classroom by using museums and artwork found online (see Web sites listed below). A Powerpoint presentation which displays some artwork from the Ackland Art Museum is attached to this plan, as well.
• Lesson plan: What Do YOU See? (Pre-Visit) This lesson introduces students to the importance of making accurate, detailed scientific observations, and the value of learning about others' views and perspectives regarding a specific topic or event. It also serves as an activity to prepare students for a visit to the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC (or any museum, real or virtual). This lesson is the first of three lessons that build upon each other, using the Ackland Art Museum as the focus.

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• Mendenhall Plantation: A visit to the Mendenhall Plantation shows students that there were dissenters to slavery in antebellum North Carolina. Buildings on the property include the main house, an old school house, the Madison Lindsay House and Medical School, a spring house, and a barn. There is also a restored wagon that may have been used to help runaway slaves.

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Located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Weatherspoon Art Museum has some of the finest collections of modern and contemporary American art in the Southeastern United States.

Free docent-led tours are available throughout the year for school groups. Educational programs include lectures, films, and gallery tours that provide visitors with the opportunity to learn directly from works of art, artists, and scholars. Admission is free. Please call at least three weeks in advance for docent-led or self-guided tours and to schedule parking for groups. Call (336) 334-5770 for more information.

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