General Education Capstone Course
Event Details and Guideline Form
Event title: Museum Visit/Fine Art Gallery Exhibit
General Education category event should be listed under: Humanities
SCC competency addressed by event:
- Articulate a personal response to popular or classical works in the humanities.
- Obtain information from a variety of sources and be able to critically analyze and evaluate the information for accuracy and relevance.
Guidelines for accomplishment of event:
- Choose a museum or gallery from the list provided.
- Choose two pieces of artwork to discuss.
- (Your choices could include either a sculpture, painting, drawing, photograph, etc.)
- Begin by briefly describing the chosen location’s architecture, interior decor, or other notable
features. Is this your first visit to an art gallery or museum? Discuss.
- Look at and make note of the artwork’s information/label describing the piece.
- Notice the title. It may provide essential information to help you understand the work.
- Notice the date, materials, and origin. This information may help further frame your
understanding of what has informed the artist’s experience.
- Describe the subject matter where applicable, if subject is unknown, attempt to describe what you see.
- The basic elements of any piece of visual art are line, shape, texture, value, & color. Without being overly detailed, describe the art using these elements.
- How are these elements organized or composed?
- Make note of your feelings and thoughts in regards to the art.
- What do you believe the artist intended to communicate?
- Whether or not you like the art, or think it is good or bad, how do you interpret this work?
- Contrast the most obvious differences between your chosen pieces.
- How does art of the past relate to the present? Are the artworks new or old?
- What has this experience taught you about creativity and ideas and places to see art?
Galleries and museums:
- SCC Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Gallery ( Do not write on student exhibitions)
- Pulitzer Foundation For The Arts
- Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
- St. Louis Art Museum (in Forest Park)
- Foundry Art Centre
- Sheldon Art Galleries
- Laumeier Sculpture Park
- Third Degree Glass Factory
- Kemper Museum at Washington University in St. Louis
- Duane Reed Gallery
- Bruno David Gallery
- Atrium Gallery
- Phd Gallery
Contact information available on the SCC Sophomore Portfolio (Capstone) Web site:
http://www.stchas.edu/divisions/ah/capstone/COL299.shtml
SCC event creator: Brian D. Smith and Kathleen Sanker
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