Today has been my final day of my internship at the Taubman. Recently most of my time has been spent working on the educational resources for use by the institution. Due to COVID local schools are not going to be going to the museum physically to participate in these learning activities. Therefore, the resources that I had to develop involved sending the resources to do the educational art making at home.
I spent a majority of my time combing through the various SOLs for Virginia schools to see what I could use to base my program around. Eventually I ended up using a piece titled Other Rooms, by Jacob Lawrence as the source material. The educational resource I created then involved students choosing a period from history and like Lawrence (who used 1940s Harlem) create a street scene from that period. To do so they could add figures either in a collage style, by cutting and pasting or if they rather they could draw figures in their historical street-scene.
