Six times during the school year, a group of teachers meet at Joslyn to study an artist and their artwork to create a lesson plan for Thursdays for Teachers (T4T). Who are these wonderful educators responsible for collaborating with Museum staff to create the curriculum? They are our Mentor…
Four years ago I met Julie Dierberger with University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Service Learning Academy (SLA) and Cathy Nelson with Blackburn Alternative High School. Little did I know that this partnership (and subsequent friendship) would lead to Joslyn Art Museum installing a life-size Truffula Tree in the Discovery…
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend a large international conference for fundraisers, and a young woman in a session made a comment about philanthropists being a word that should only be used with large, transformational gifts (lingo fundraisers and nonprofits use regarding seven and eight figure plus…
Bad Country, good food, inspiring art, and more importantly over 225 people gathered to support the Kent Bellows Mentoring Program and made Wishbone 2015 a great success. The Kent Bellows Mentoring Program empowers high school students to explore their artistic talents through a mentoring relationship with professional artists. The…
Last September, twenty Karen students – most from camps along the Thai-Burma border and all now attending Benson High School and part of Omaha Public Schools’ ESL/Refugee and Migrant Education program – made Joslyn Art Museum their home. The students participated in a five-day quilt workshop during National…
It’s rare when most of Joslyn’s education staff calendars align, but when they do we make the most of it. This year we traveled to the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) to meet with their education staff and view their collections and exhibitions. Meet Joslyn’s Education Department Front row,…
I really caught the travel bug this summer. I spent two weeks in England with an art history study abroad group and shortly after I returned home I spent almost a week driving through the Southwest to visit the Grand Canyon. Long periods of travel – especially so close…
As told by Molly Blackburn, Language Arts Teacher, Buffett Magnet Middle School and Laura Huntimer, Director of School Programs & Interactive Media, Joslyn Art Museum MOLLY: Our service learning project, initially called “A Walk Through Time,” has been a blast! The idea of doing a service learning project came…
Recent visitors to Joslyn have had the opportunity to participate in a collaborative art-making activity. Based on Carl Andre’s Gazetteer (in the Legacy exhibition), a text-based artwork that builds word after word into a final two-dimensional piece existing, not as poetry or prose, but as an end unto itself,…
It’s Monday at Joslyn Art Museum. The big brass doors are closed to the public, the galleries locked tight, and the paintings allowed to ‘rest’ in dark away from eager school children, pointing fingers, and noses occasionally pressed too close for the comfort of our protection officers. Mondays are…