COMMUNITY STUDY
BROCHURE MOCKUP
Making Connections with Asheville Art Museum
Overview
This museum in particular does an incredible job in highlight multicultural education and artists from local and surrounding areas. Introducing these exhibits to students, preferably earlier on ages 8-13, can make a huge impact. This impact can show how art is not only just to express yourself, but help in leading by example that you can truly make a difference in your community through your artwork.
Field Trips
Asheville Art Museum offers classes for younger students, around Elementary age. Expanding on this and creating classes and field trips for middle and high school aged students would be a beneficial addition for art education in surrounding areas. Since these are a lot of local artists in said exhibits, there’s a great opportunity to have the artists come speak to students about their art and experiences, and maybe even teach a class. Even field trips just to view the museum in small groups can open the eyes of said students, showing them a world of possibility, all while teaching them about local meaningful artwork. Having older students bring sketchbooks to reflect and sketch would also be helpful for the classroom instruction project.
Collaboration
Have a member of the museum curation team come to speak to the class about behind the scenes at the museum. They can talk about how they found each artist, the meaning of each exhibit and what they want viewers to take away from it, and inspire students by opening up a new realm of possibilities of having art in museums. Explaining the curation side and the abundance of interesting and diverse artists can help students to better appreciate other museums later in life.
Implementing into Classroom Instruction
After visiting the museum, instruct students to pick an artwork or a particular exhibit that moved or inspired them. Then, have them create their own piece modeled after this. Have them present a brief slideshow on what they could find on the artist, their influences, mediums, etc., and present their own artwork to the class. Give them the freedom to explore their subject, and make their own unique piece that they would want to be displayed in the museum.
ANNOTATED RESOURCES
Asheville Art Museum. Facebook. (n.d.). Retrieved September 2021, from https://
www.facebook.com/AshevilleArtMuseum.
The Facebook page, which gives information on hours, posts frequently about the exhibits, and is open to messaging with any questions.
Asheville Art Museum. (2021, August 28). Retrieved September 28, 2021, from https://
www.ashevilleart.org/.
Website for the museum, with pages on the current exhibits, classes, and membership info.
Instagram. (n.d.). Asheville Art Museum . Retrieved September 2021, from https://
www.instagram.com/ashevilleartmuseum/.
The museums Instagram page, which displays updates, photographs of the current works, etc.
YouTube. (2015). Asheville art Museum. YouTube. Retrieved September 2021, from https://
www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSWi9N8F-n5uYA_6eKGGeQ.
Youtube Channel for the Asheville Art Museum. This has virtual art shows, behind the scenes looks at certain works on display, and virtual conversations between artists.
Overview
This museum in particular does an incredible job in highlight multicultural education and artists from local and surrounding areas. Introducing these exhibits to students, preferably earlier on ages 8-13, can make a huge impact. This impact can show how art is not only just to express yourself, but help in leading by example that you can truly make a difference in your community through your artwork.
Field Trips
Asheville Art Museum offers classes for younger students, around Elementary age. Expanding on this and creating classes and field trips for middle and high school aged students would be a beneficial addition for art education in surrounding areas. Since these are a lot of local artists in said exhibits, there’s a great opportunity to have the artists come speak to students about their art and experiences, and maybe even teach a class. Even field trips just to view the museum in small groups can open the eyes of said students, showing them a world of possibility, all while teaching them about local meaningful artwork. Having older students bring sketchbooks to reflect and sketch would also be helpful for the classroom instruction project.
Collaboration
Have a member of the museum curation team come to speak to the class about behind the scenes at the museum. They can talk about how they found each artist, the meaning of each exhibit and what they want viewers to take away from it, and inspire students by opening up a new realm of possibilities of having art in museums. Explaining the curation side and the abundance of interesting and diverse artists can help students to better appreciate other museums later in life.
Implementing into Classroom Instruction
After visiting the museum, instruct students to pick an artwork or a particular exhibit that moved or inspired them. Then, have them create their own piece modeled after this. Have them present a brief slideshow on what they could find on the artist, their influences, mediums, etc., and present their own artwork to the class. Give them the freedom to explore their subject, and make their own unique piece that they would want to be displayed in the museum.
ANNOTATED RESOURCES
Asheville Art Museum. Facebook. (n.d.). Retrieved September 2021, from https://
www.facebook.com/AshevilleArtMuseum.
The Facebook page, which gives information on hours, posts frequently about the exhibits, and is open to messaging with any questions.
Asheville Art Museum. (2021, August 28). Retrieved September 28, 2021, from https://
www.ashevilleart.org/.
Website for the museum, with pages on the current exhibits, classes, and membership info.
Instagram. (n.d.). Asheville Art Museum . Retrieved September 2021, from https://
www.instagram.com/ashevilleartmuseum/.
The museums Instagram page, which displays updates, photographs of the current works, etc.
YouTube. (2015). Asheville art Museum. YouTube. Retrieved September 2021, from https://
www.youtube.com/channel/UCPSWi9N8F-n5uYA_6eKGGeQ.
Youtube Channel for the Asheville Art Museum. This has virtual art shows, behind the scenes looks at certain works on display, and virtual conversations between artists.