Field Trips

Fall 2020 - Art AdventureThis semester, my students and I are supposed to visit an art museum in conjunction with our studies of Western Civilization. However, since we're in the time of Corona, visiting art museums or pretty much anywhere is quite restrictive. 

As an alternative, I have decided to take the students to view public art such as murals, sculptures, and even a graffiti park. This actually works out great since the students just held a debate concerning whether or not grafitti should be legal.  

As it happens, one of my art school classmates is one of the artists who participated in a Park Wall Graffiti Festival held last weekend. I'm excited to take the students to see his artwork as well as all the other artists. I think they are more excited about this trip than they were about going to a museum!

Our public art will also include architecture in the form of churches, courthouses, and a library building in downtown Nashville.

My plan is to make this into an art scavenger hunt, although I've not quite worked out how I want to go about that. I'll let you know and will post pictures after we go on our art-viewing adventure.


June 2014 - Amelia Earhart Home
A couple weeks ago, we had the opportunity to be in Atchison, Kansas and to visit the Amelia Earhart birthplace. There was also some great information about the Lewis and Clark expedition when they were in this area.
The Amelia Earhart birthplace did not take too long to go through unless you want to read all the written information available.  The newspaper reports were interesting to me, so I took the time to read those. One room of the house is dedicated to being a gift shop. Otherwise, they have each room clearly identified as to how it was used when Amelia Earhart lived there. In all, we spent about an hour wandering through the house and along the River front.








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