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Self-guided materials for educators help bring art from Frye exhibitions into classrooms and prepare students for a visit to the Museum. These guides challenge learners to think critically about what they see and engage them in the process of discussing art. Full-color images of objects in the guide can be printed out on transparency sheets for easy classroom use on overhead projectors. |
The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art
This guide includes a variety of materials designed to help educators and students prepare for their visit to the exhibition The Old, Weird America: Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, on view at the Frye Art Museum October 3, 2009–January 3, 2010. Materials include resources and activities for use before, during, and after visits.
Specifically, this guide introduces students to American contemporary artists who use realist styles and storytelling imagery to consider American social history. Reaching back into American folklore, these artists create new works that illuminate ingrained social forces and overlooked histories as well as contemporary concerns. The guide also gives students permission to challenge their own assumptions of American folklore and history.
This guide was designed to be printed two-sided.
Download the guide for educators and students (4.8 MB)
Past Exhibitions
2009
The Munich Secession and America Educator Guide (5.5 MB)
2008
Napoleon on the Nile and Empire Gallery Activities (120 KB) Napoleon on the Nile and Empire Transparency Packet (685 KB) Napoleon on the Nile and Empire Self-Guided Materials (258 KB) Heaven is Being a Memory to Others and Dario Robleto: Alloy of Love (2.8 MB) Dario Robleto: Alloy of Love Transparency Packet (4.3 MB) Heaven is Being a Memory to Others Transparency Packet (3.3 MB) R. Crumb's Underground (459 KB)
2007
Hug: Recent Work by Patricia Piccinini (723 KB) Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection (393 KB)
2006
I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time: Recent Work by Erwin Wurm (817 KB)
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