Category: - Dryden Art

Art Institute of Chicago Trip 2018

4/13/2018

Fourth graders have been preparing for their field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago for week now through interactive games that got them looking, thinking, and talking about the collection at our world class museum a short drive away. Watch our slideshow video and view our LIVE tweets from the event below.

Hey? You made it all the way down here. Thanks for looking!
Do you want to know about the games we used to prep for this trip?

I wrote a post about our resources here. And, I wrote up one game for School Arts Magazine. You can learn more about it here.

Spect-ART-acles in May's School Arts

4/4/2018

I wrote up an article describing our Spect-ART-acles game that we play in 4th grade to prepare for out trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. It is in the May 2018 School Arts Magazine Issue. View it online here.

Here are the images they used of our students wearing their image on their glasses similar to the game Headbanz.
http://www.schoolartsdigital.com/i/960630-may-2018/40

See my original post with resources

I wrote up the whole 45 minute lesson as a post with all the resources I use to play the game with my students HERE.

Click the image to view the post with all my teaching resources

Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip 2017

4/18/2017

4th graders had a wonderful trip to the Art Institute of Chicago where the looked at the world class collection during a docent-guided tour and scavenger hunt. We tweeted some pictures from the trip below (or find them here) and assembled them into a slideshow.

Whistler's Mother

4/1/2017

James McNeill Whistler. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother), 1871. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Click image to learn more.

Don't have to go to Paris to see it!

I just learned by watching a news story on our local PBS station that Whistler's Mother will be on display at the Art Institute of Chicago at the same time that I will be taking my 4th graders there for a field trip. This painting is iconic. I have put this in the category of "famous and important" ever since I was introduced to it as an art student in school. Since I've never been to Paris I had never had the opportunity to view it in person until now. I'm so excited about having the chance to see this piece in person finally! The only draw back is that the Art Institute loaned out the American Gothic in its place. Luckily, it will return by the start of summer but that is when Whistler's Mother will head back to France.

Fun fact: Buried beneath a layer of paint and behind our lego mural wall in Dryden's hallways is a very old replica of Whistler's Mother made by young artists long ago. Perhaps one day it will be uncovered.

Parodies of Whistler's Mother

This artwork is so iconic that it has shown up in many pop culture parodies or spoofs:

Disney Version

Lego Version

Muppets Version

Interacting with the painting

Click to enlarge then save to camera roll

As a fun way to introduce and familiarize my 4th grade students with the painting, I thought I would mask out the mother and allow them to become the primary subject. I used the Procreate App on the iPad to paint over her while trying to match the colors and textures of the original painting. Using this masked image, students will be able to enter the artwork with the Green Screen App by Do Ink to make a still image or video. It would be interesting to reflect on how they change the mood and story as they compare it to the original.

Interacting with Whistler's Mother from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

Sample Questions:

What is the mood of the original painting?
What is the mood of your new image?
What sounds would you have heard in the original room?
What sounds do you imagine in the new image?

Whistler's Grandson

Prep for the Art Institute of Chicago

3/23/2017

Dryden 4th graders sitting and listening to the docent at the Rainy Day in Paris painting at the Art Institute Field Trip 2016

Every year I take the 4th graders on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. We are so lucky to be so near a world class art museum! In preparation for the trip students play art games that help them think about art and become familiar with the collection. We LOVE the game Spect-ART-acles. Here is a video of the students playing or watch it below.

Download the ARTIC Scavenger Hunt Sheet

Download the resources for this all class ARTIC game

Download the Resources for all class ARTIC BINGO

Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip

4/7/2016

Fourth grade had a wonderful trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. We had a docent guided tour, lunch with a beautiful view, a chance to see Van Gogh's three Bedroom paintings on special exhibit, go on a scavenger hunt, and see President Obama's motorcade on the way back to school! Many of the teachers tweeted images and messages from the trip using the hashtag #drydenartic. I'll share them below.

#drydenartic Tweets

3 resources that made this trip better:

Connect a Concept Game (click image to view resources)

Art Institute Bingo (click the image to view resources)

Spect-ART-acles Game (click image to view resources)

The highlight of all highlights was this:

Wow! I just got a call from the Art Institute of Chicago complimenting our students and @fuglefun. So proud! #PrideInDryden
— Akemi Sessler (@AkemiSessler) April 7, 2016

Art Institute of Chicago Field Trip 2014

4/7/2014

Today I took the 4th graders to the Art Institute of Chicago to see their permanent collection face to face. Students have been spending the past few weeks playing art games to become familiar with the art they would see on this trip. They played:
Art Institute Bingo
Spect-art-acles
Connect-a-Concept
I tweeted our trip using the hashtag #drydenartic and archived the images and audioboos below.
The photos from the trip are in a slideshow too.
Want to explore the museum with our scavenger hunt sheet? Click here to download it.

We received an email from our head docent on our trip. See her lovely feedback below:

All of the docents who led your students on tour commented on how much they enjoyed interacting with your students. Your students were described as bright, enthusiastic, and very well prepared to discuss works of art. We thank you for inspiring your students to appreciate art. Working with students like yours is why we love the job we do at The Art Institute of Chicago.

~Camille, Docent at the Art Institute of Chicago

SPECT-ART-ACLES look-think-question

3/20/2014

I will be taking my fourth graders on a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago in early April. To make the trip more meaningful and engaging, I play three different games to help them become more familiar with the art collection.
One of the games is called SPECT-ART-ACLES. It was inspired by a NAEA presentation I saw a number of years ago about playing games in the art room. My student teacher, Matthew Etherington, helped me put this idea together and customize it for our trip to the Art Institute by making it all about the permanent collection at their museum.

We started by purchasing plastic glasses and hot gluing a popsicle stick to the top with a piece of velcro. I already had a collection of postcards of art from the Art Institute and used those as our game pieces by adding velcro to the back. These could be designed and printed out on card stock and laminated so they last from year to year.

The game board lists each possible choice

of art in the game with Title and Artist

In this introduction video you can play against Matthew and learn how the game works.

This Fugleflick video will help students brush up on their art vocabulary so they can ask good questions like, Am I a landscape? Sculpture? Still Life? Figure drawing? Abstract?

I AM ART from Tricia Fuglestad on Vimeo.

For the last bit of class we have the ULTIMATE CHALLENGE ROUND. We spin the digital wheel to see which student from each table will come up and play the game before the whole class. It's an elimination game that reveals our guessing strategies to all.

Published in School Arts Magazine

The May 2018 edition of School Arts Magazine published my article about our game.
View it here.

Hopping into Hopper

2/21/2014

Students take a surrealistic look at Nighthawks

Students will be taking a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago where they will see the permanent collection of art in person. Their collection contains many famous pieces including Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. Unfortunately this is the only peek at Nighthawks they will have on this trip. I just learned that it will be on loan while we visit.

View student pieces here.

Here is how the project looks in SketchbookX.

Click the image to save this template. Then import it into SketchbookX.

Look at how you can take this project one step further by importing the template into DoInk's Green Screen app. You can record a video through the transparent opening in a layer below. Realizing this will open many more possibilities. The only other way I knew how to do something like this was with a custom photo booth effect. But now students can each talk and interact with artwork this way!

Related post: Photobombing Edward Hopper Paintings

Field Trip to the Art Institute of Chicago

4/3/2013

UPDATE: Hope you followed along as I live tweeted our field trip. Thank you Mr. Robinson for emailing families this link!
I put together this quick Animoto video, but it doesn't do it justice. Listening to what the kids were sharing and their excitement via our Audioboos is so worth it!

I organized all of our Audioboos into one place so you can listen to them here:

Original post: I am going to try to live tweet our field trip with Audioboo using the hashtag #drydenartic. If all goes as planned you be able to see and hear what we are experiencing in our tweets below.

Tweets about "#drydenartic"