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This season marks The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s [SMoCA] 10th Anniversary of opening its doors to our community and schools. In celebration, SMoCA is delighted to share with school children and teachers a stellar season of exciting learning experiences, from arts activities to guided tours, slide presentations and teacher in-service workshops. We invite you to participate. Our mission is to provide events that foster creative expression, diversity and awareness of cultural heritage.
We design the programs featured in this brochure to provide your students with enriching activities that address the Arizona Visual Arts Standards and meet your grade-level expectations. Visits to SMoCA energize students and advance your classroom efforts. We look forward to sharing these dynamic offerings with your classes. Hope to see you soon at the Museum.
Carolyn C. Robbins, Curator of Education
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
carolynr@sccarts.org
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Dave Cole, Knit Lead Teddy Bear, 2006, lead ribbon, hand-cut and knitted over armature of lead wool, 6 x 5 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston. © Dave Cole.
(Part of the Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition)
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is an educational institution dedicated to exploring “the ideas of our time.” SMoCA advances appreciation of contemporary culture and explores new artistic expressions. At SMoCA, you’ll find innovative art, new experiences and creative activities. You’ll have access to internationally recognized artists, architects and designers. SMoCA serves thousands of visitors each year. Our audiences eagerly share their insights and passion for the arts in workshops, docent-led tours, outreach presentations, lectures and studio tours.
Sponsored by Beverly and N. Bud Grossman; Scottsdale League for the Arts, Mrs. Marilyn Kahle, in honor of Iris Hartman and in memory of Ethel and Max Menkin; Scottsdale Charros; Scottsdale Insurance Company/Nationwide Foundation; Wells Fargo; Bette and Sheldon Jacobs; Sally Lindsay; Joan Mills Miller Estate; Tamara and Emil Weiss; Karen and John Voris; Louise Roman and Will Bruder; and Paul Giancola.
Additional funding provided by the City of Scottsdale and Arizona Commission on the Arts.
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Students from Emerson Elementary
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Includes concepts of the Arizona Visual Arts Standards.
Teacher Guides are available for special exhibitions (grades 1-8) upon request.
Pre-registration required at least three weeks in advance. Call 480-874-4641.
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Art Start
This program helps youngsters discover the wonderful world of art. During visits to the Museum, children enjoy a participatory tour designed to inspire confidence, self-awareness and self-expression, as well as to promote language development. An accompanying hands-on art project helps strengthen physical and perceptual skills.
Sponsored by the Scottsdale League for the Arts and Karen and John Voris.
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Presentations In Your Classroom
Free.
Pre-registration required (at least two weeks prior).
Call 480-874-4641.
For elementary students and higher grades as indicated.
SMoCA docents present thematic slide talks for schools in Scottsdale; between Scottsdale’s east border and west to SR-51; south to McKellips Road; and north to 101 in Phoenix.
Museum d ocent Beryl Sherman gives an art presentation in the classroom
Enrich your teaching with these interactive, 40-minute slide programs, all of which address concepts of the Arizona Visual Arts Standards.
- Animals in Art (grades K-3)
- Art All Around Us: Public Art (grades 2-12)
- Art in Children’s Literature I (grades 1-3, elements of art)
- Art in Children’s Literature II (grades 3-6, principles of art)
- Circus! Circus! (grades K-3)
- Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos en Mexico (grades 4-12)
- I Have My Reasons
(Why do we like or dislike certain artworks? Learn the principles of art and design.)
- Native-American Art
- You’ve Got to Have Style
(Learn to identify realistic, abstract and non-objective works of art.)
Robert Indiana, LOVE, 1969-99, polychrome aluminum.
Purchased by the Scottsdale Public Art Program with in-kind support from Pascal and Sylvie de Sarthe,
Scottsdale and the Morgan Art Foundation, Ltd. NY. Photo Credit: Edwin Benoit.
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Arts Days
$5 per student/adult
Pre-registration required. Call 480-874-4641.
Students see a 45-minute performance, participate in an interactive, docent-guided exhibition tour and create an art object. Teachers receive a guide for the exhibition that includes lesson plans, information on the artists and citations of the related Arizona Visual Arts Standards. Please plan for a minimum of two hours for the Arts Day event. Students may bring lunches to eat outdoors following the activities.
Arts Days space is limited to 125 seats per performance.
Payments must be made two weeks in advance.
There are no refunds.
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Knitting, Knots and Stories
10 am-noon
Grades 2-8
Exhibitions: Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting; Pedro Meyer’s Heresies
Performance: Storytelling by Rosie Witcher about sewing groups, knitting and grandmas.
Art Project: Use textures of lace and fabric to create unique compositions
Hildur Bjarnadóttir, Doodling, 2005, tatted
cotton thread and red pen ink, 12 x 15 inches.
Private collection. © Hildur Bjarnadóttir.
Art Can Be Pretty Fun
10 am-noon
Grades 2-8
Exhibitions: At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer; SMoCA’s 10th Anniversary Show: Wit and Humor
Performance: Medival jester performance by Kirby Soderberg.
Art Project: Sculpt silly clay creations
Nina Katchadourian, Renovated Mushroom, 1998,
Cibachrome, 30 x 40 inches. Courtesy of Sara Meltzer
Gallery. © Nina Katchadourian.
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$15 per person.
Reservations call 480-874-4641
SMoCA is pleased to offer Teacher In-Service workshops to school districts upon request. Teachers will discover ways to use art to enhance their teaching in conjunction with SMoCA’s exhibitions. They will learn to incorporate the Arizona Art Standards and to enrich their classrooms while earning professional development credit.
In-service workshops include:
- an interactive tour of the exhibitions
- a hands-on art project
- a review of lesson plans to take back to the classroom.
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FREE
Selected Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
January 10 through April 11
12:00 p.m. Noon
For more information, call 480-994-2787.
The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers insights into Native American culture in a series of free, 90-minute festivals. Students will set forth on a magnificent journey filled with brilliant works of art, rhythmic music, joyous dance and vibrant dress. A Native Trails performance, a picnic in the park and a free docent-led tour of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art completes a day of educational fun that will make a lasting impression on your students. To schedule a docent tour of the museum's exhibitions, call 480-874-4641.
Culture Quest and Native Trails are brought to you by Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau and Scottsdale Cultural Council.
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tuesday/wednesday 10 am-5 pm
thursday 10 am-8 pm (free admission )
friday/saturday 10 am-5 pm
sunday noon-5 pm
closed mondays and major holidays
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All group tours must have reservations (including docent-led and self-guided tours).
- Docent-led tours must be booked at least three weeks in advance.
- Payment in full for Arts Day programs must be received two weeks in advance. Make checks payable to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. There are no refunds. (Any unpaid time slots will be reassigned.)
- Due to space limitations and to maintain a proper teaching environment, a maximum of 125 people can be accommodated in the galleries each hour (with or without docents).
- Chaperones required: for grades pre-K-12, one adult per 10 students.
- Please arrive 10-15 minutes prior to your scheduled tour time.
- Bus funds: subsidies to defray school bus charges are available on a limited basis according to need.
American Sign Language interpretation is available for some Museum tours, with three weeks advance notice. To make arrangements, call 480-874-4623.
To make reservations for a Museum tour, call SMoCA’s education department at 480-874-4641. For special-needs services, call 480-874-4623.
fax: 480-874-4655
e-mail: smoca@sccarts.org
lost & found: 480-874-4648
web site: www.smoca.org
- Receive a full year of membership benefits by joining today for ONLY $30 (regularly $50): Membership card (1)
- Unlimited, free SMoCA admission (with membership card)
- Advance notice of performances and events, with early ticket-buying opportunities
- 10% discount at the Museum Stores*
- Two free tickets to the Scottsdale Arts Festival
- Subscription to member newsletters and calendars
please print, complete and fax to: Membership, 480-874-4655 or
mail to: Membership, 7380 E. Second St., Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Proof of Eligibility (Please include copy of current AZ teacher certificate)
Fax to 480-874-4655 or mail to:
Membership, 7380 E Second Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA] is saying farewell to long-time Associate Curator of Education, Sally Lindsay who retired on June 30, 2008. Sally has worked as a key member of SMoCA’s education team for almost two decades. During that time, she made a tremendous contribution to arts education in the Valley, first in her role at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts and then at SMoCA. Sally is truly part of SMoCA's foundations and has affected so very many children and families with her programs, her energy and her belief in the ability of the arts to build a sense of self. Sally will be splitting her time between Vancouver, BC, and her home here in the Valley. We wish her well in all her future endeavors and will miss her greatly.
We are delighted to welcome The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s [SMoCA] new Associate Curator of Education, Laura Hales! Laura earned her Master of Arts degree in art education from ASU in 2004, but she’s not new to SMoCA. While in graduate school, Laura interned for SMoCA education and developed a teacher's guide for two of our exhibitions. She also was an intern at the Phoenix Art Museum. Laura has taught at the Shemer Arts Center and at Fountain Hills High School, and has actively been engaged in collaboration with ASU’s Dr. Mary Erickson to design, write and produce visual art curricula. She also was art director for Arizona Building & Development, an illustrator for Continental Homes, Gosnell Development, and was owner and principal artist of L. Ramson Illustration & Design. Welcome, Laura!
Carolyn Robbins, curator of education, 480-874-4640, CarolynR@sccarts.org
Laura Hales, associate curator of education, 480-874-4642, LauraH@sccarts.org
Michelle Palazzolo, museum youth educator, 480-425-5348, MPalazzolo@sccarts.org
Lauren Chambers, education assistant, 480-874-4641, LaurenC@sccarts.org
map: 7374 east second st. scottsdale az 85251
www.smoca.org
The Scottsdale Cultural Council, a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, administers the arts and cultural affairs of the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, and manages the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Scottsdale Public Art Program. |
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