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Show Iwages ( !'.Yards 1 Images . >Words A cooperative project of the Salt Lake County Schools and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah funded by the Salt Lake County Zoo Arts and Parks Program How do visual images communicate to us? That is the question we asked high school students at 5 high schools in Salt Lake County. Educational Services at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts teamed up with Art History, Humanities, and English teachers in a program in which students had an opportunity to write in response to a work of art. The program this year consisted of a classroom visit by a Museum docent who presented an interactive presentation. During the presentation, the students had an opportunity to make associations with visual images. Docents encouraged the students to trust their own personal interpretations of images and emphasized that a person does not need to be an art historian to enjoy art. The Images and Words program was altered this year due to the new building that the UMFA moved into and opened on June 2. Because the Utah Museum of Fine Arts was closed during winter 2001, some of the students were encouraged to visit another museum, gallery, or other venue of visual arts. The goal was to give the students an opportunity to see visual arts and be inspired by them. Highland High School elected to write on their own peer's artwork. Each student at Highland that participated viewed the school exhibition at the high school. Judge Memorial Catholic High School viewed art at the UMFA in fall 2000. Back in the classroom, students experimented with a variety of genres and wrote poems, stories, essays, and other forms in response to the art they had seen. Finally, each class selected two of the completed works to be published by the UMFA and each student was invited to the grand opening of the new Museum building on June 2. All the finished pieces are presented here uncensored and unedited. The student artwork that inspired the writing is reproduced by permission. Schools Involved in 2001 East High School Granger High School Highland High School ~~Iii Hunter High School Judge Memorial Catholic High School ZOO, ART.r 1~,.: ~1138 V \10::i · · Images and Words is funded in part by The Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Program |
