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Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
This workshop will introduce high school teachers to the exhibition Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. The exhibition explores the relationships between historic and contemporary representations of the black female body. Over one hundred sculptures, prints, postcards, photographs, paintings, textiles, and video installations are presented in three sections: traditional African, Western colonial, and contemporary global. The exhibition provides a truly unique look at how images of the black female body have been created and used to express different ideals of beauty, fertility, sexuality, motherhood, and women's societal roles from the nineteenth century to the present.
Following an in-depth tour of the exhibition with curator Barbara Thompson, teachers will experience a range of gallery activities developed by museum education staff for tours with high school students. The group will also explore curricular connections and strategies for connecting objects in Black Womanhood with other representations of women throughout the museum's collections.
This workshop will be of particular interest to art, language arts, and social studies teachers who focus on Africa, world cultures, women's studies, diversity issues, and current events.
Teachers will leave the workshop with a resource packet, CD-ROM of images, and suggestions for ways to connect the exhibition to their curriculum. Participation is limited to twenty-two. The cost of the workshop is $30 per person and is recommended for three and a half contact hours toward recertification.
Special workshops to introduce teachers to ways of integrating the visual arts into the curriculum and to familiarize them with the museum's 2008-9 exhibitions will be posted over the summer.
