Last month, Carole Anders Harris arrived at Joslyn with a group of friends to have lunch and visit the 30 Americans exhibition. The visit was planned in celebration of a milestone birthday for Harris, who had traveled from South Carolina to her hometown of Omaha for the gathering. For…
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…
Joslyn Art Museum serves as an educational resource for the entire greater metropolitan area, including Southwest Iowa. As such, this spring, we welcomed every second grade student from the Council Bluffs School District — nearly 700 children from eleven school buildings — for a docent-guided tour called Parts of…
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,…
What began as a storage room full of books and other items became a space more wonderful than any one person could have dreamed. After tedious planning, sorting, cleaning, more planning, building, bumps and hoops, this old storage room that occupied the east lower level of the Memorial Building…
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…