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If you're a teacher in the DC area, we have some exciting opportunities for professional development coming up.  Sign up to explore new ideas and fabulous works of art with enthusiastic colleagues and museum educators! Details below.

To find out more and register for each program, please visit:

americanart.si.edu/education/dev/pdw.cfm 


-- Suzannah
Education Department

Teacher Guide What do you paint when your country is divided by war and you don't know who is going to win, how long the war will last, or what will happen next? Find out at... 

 

Evening for Educators: The Civil War and American Art

Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Time: 4:30p.m.-7:30p.m.
Cost: $25 (includes reception)

 

All participants will receive a copy of The Civil War and American Art Teacher Guide.

Participants How can a museum help teach problem solving and collaboration?  Find out at...

 

Challenge-Based Museum Learning (with The National Portrait Gallery)

Date: Saturday, January 26, 2013

Time: 9:30a.m.-12:30p.m.
Cost: Free

Interception by Mark Tansey, 1996 "A painted picture is like a vehicle.  One can either sit in the driveway and take it apart or one can get in it and go somewhere." -Mark Tansey

How can you empower yourself and your students to explore and interpret new artworks?  Find out at...

 

Learning to Look (with The National Portrait Gallery)

Date: Saturday, February 23, 2013

Time: 9:30a.m.-12:30p.m.
Cost: Free

Find out more and register online at:
americanart.si.edu/education/dev/pdw.cfm


Header image credits: Eastman Johnson's The Girl I Left Behind Me, Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway, and Eye by an unidentified artist 
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