Welcome Teachers
This fall the Contemporary Museum continues its innovative series of teen workshops that investigate how artists use and respond to technology.
Free teacher workshops and a new on-line curriculum portal will give teachers the necessary tools to bring the Contemporary Museum's innovative programming into the classroom. Launched in conjunction with the Museum's upcoming exhibition FAX, these resources offer local students a variety of opportunities to engage with art of our time, create their own works of art, and even participate in their very own exhibition called teenFAX.
FAX invites a multigenerational group of over 100 artists, architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers to conceive the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. Participants will transmit fax–based work via the museum's working fax line throughout the duration of the exhibition on view from September 12 to December 20, 2009. The active accumulation of information–received in real time, in the exhibition space–will include drawings and texts, and the inevitable junk faxes and errors of transmission, creating an ongoing cumulative project concerned with reproduction, obsolescence, distribution, mediation, and generative systems.
Teens and teachers from Baltimore and the five surrounding counties are invited to participate in the project.
Through a series of free teacher workshops at the Contemporary Museum and an on–line teacher resource portal, teachers can access lesson plans and classroom activity ideas for drawing projects linked to the exhibition's themes and techniques. Designed to develop students' visual thinking skills and interest in contemporary art, these lesson plans emphasize the use of drawing as a mode of cognition and communication. Additionally, they propose exhibition-related drawing projects for individuals and groups to create in the classroom.
Like the artists participating in FAX, students are invited to fax their artwork to the museum where it will be featured in teenFAX, an exhibition held concurrently in the Contemporary Museum's gallery space. Teachers can arrange or encourage gallery visits for classrooms to explore the artwork on view in FAX as well as see the results of their own process of creation and transmission.
Explore our Classroom Activity Ideas here:
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