Form+Theme+Context (FTC) & MUSEUMS
"Museums can provide opportunities for reflection and moments of insight, not only about the art on display, but about ourselves, and the world we live in."
—Carole Henry
“A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to a museum as often as you can."
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Beholding the Museum As a Work of Art
Art museums are extraordinary learning sites for people of all ages. In today’s digital world, it’s easy to “virtually” visit museums on-line without setting foot in the institution, but how does one get to more fully “know” a museum? One way is to explore how a balance of formal, thematic, and contextual qualities SHAPE a museum’s unique meaning and impact. To that end, the FTC Palette for Decoding an Art Museum is designed for “blended learning” to connect visitors with their personal anticipated museum experience. The FTC balanced structure helps identify each museum’s uniqueness in terms of museum-specific criteria linked to found evidence that creates more meaningful discoveries through FTC insights, assessments, and questions.
“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
FTC USE IN MUSEUMS
EXPEDITIONARY MUSEUM BOOTCAMP LEARNING EXPERIENCE: SUMMERVISION DC
Growing out of Renee Sandell's university partnerships with the Baltimore Museum of Art (1992-2003) and 5 DC museums (2005-2014), in 2010, she initiated and designed SummerVision DC (SVDC) as a pilot museum-based professional learning experience offered through the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Inspired by Marcel Proust’s quote, participants visit a minimum of 8 museums in 4 days, and using FTC and Marking & Mapping, they develop “new eyes"and gain a new creative and reflective perspectives. To date, over 325 visual arts and other educators from the US and beyond, representing teaching levels from K-12 to higher education, arts organizations, and museums, have participated in 14 SummerVison DC sessions.
See 2019 SummerVisionDC Itinerary
Read about the SummerVisionDC 2019 highlights in this featured artcile.
FTC & MUSEUMS
"Museums can provide opportunities for reflection and moments of insight,
not only about the art on display, but about ourselves, and the world we live in."
—Carole Henry
“A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to a museum as often as you can."
―
Beholding the Museum As a Work of Art
Art museums are extraordinary learning sites for people of all ages. In today’s digital world, it’s easy to “virtually” visit museums on-line without setting foot in the institution, but how does one get to more fully “know” a museum? One way is to explore how a balance of formal, thematic, and contextual qualities SHAPE a museum’s unique meaning and impact. To that end, the FTC Palette for Decoding an Art Museum is designed for “blended learning” to connect visitors with their personal anticipated museum experience. The FTC balanced structure helps identify each museum’s uniqueness in terms of museum-specific criteria linked to found evidence that creates more meaningful discoveries through FTC insights, assessments, and questions.
“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
FTC USE IN MUSEUMS
Expeditionary Museum Bootcamp
Learning Experience: Summer Vision DC
Growing out of Renee Sandell's university partnerships with the Baltimore Museum of Art (1992-2003) and 5 DC museums (2005-2014), in 2010, she initiated and designed SummerVision DC (SVDC) as a pilot museum-based professional learning experience offered through the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Inspired by Marcel Proust’s quote, participants visit a minimum of 8 museums in 4 days, and using FTC and Marking & Mapping, they develop “new eyes"and gain a new creative and reflective perspectives. To date, over 325 visual arts and other educators from the US and beyond, representing teaching levels from K-12 to higher education, arts organizations, and museums, have participated in 14 SummerVison DC sessions.
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