ENTRY I

Boise Art Museum Field Trip

On our field trip to the Boise Art Museum we had the opportunity to meet with the person responsible for coordinating the efforts of the communities education and schools with the art museum. We received information about how the museum handles field trips and also received an example of how the people there get the students to actively think about he art that they are viewing. We toured the Circles exhibit and the Autoban exhibit. I found myself really enjoying a massive painting which featured a murder of crows blocking a path. We completed our tour with a trip to the back of the museum to create our own watercolor paintings of birds.

Integration

The integration of the BAM to everyday classroom curriculum would depend greatly on the exhibits that the museum is featuring at the time. Given the current art on display I would suggest the following for integration.

• Wanxin Zhang- these sculptures could be utilized to teach the students about the cultural meshing between the artists ancient culture and the current norms.
• The Audubon exhibit could help to bring in a lesson on wildlife with its heavy emphasis on photo-realistic birds.
• The exhibit featuring circles has valuable implications with mathematics.
• One area that I think the trip to the BAM would greatly help children is that it would help them to learn appropriate manners and etiquette in a unique setting.
• As with almost any field trip, a trip to the BAM would be easily incorporated into writing curriculum by having the students document their experience in some way.