Celebrate Creativity 2018
On October 31st, 2018, 18 students from Hampton Public Schools attended Celebrate Creativity at the Joslyn Art Museum held in conjunction with the Omaha Symphony. Students participated in workshops such as: POW! (where they learned to throw a fake punch), Yes...and? (improvisation), Illuminating Colors (how color and light can affect how you see the world), Frightful Art (stage make-up showing bruises, wounds, and scars), Ninja-101 (Tae Kwon Do), Bust a Move! (hip-hop dance workshop), On Broadway (dance & acting), The Voice (singing with a profession voice coach), The Stitched Line (create a drawing using a needle and thread), Stokes of Genius (calligraphy), Hypnotic Patterns (art that creates illusions of movement), and Music Video Extravaganza (making a music video).
Students also went a docent guided tour through 1 of 4 sections of the museum. They either went on the Explore European Art Tour, American Art Experience Tour, Movements in Modern & Contemporary Art Tour, or Patterns & Purpose: American Quilts Tour which was a traveling art exhibit. While on these tours students interacted with the art doing different activities while in the galleries.
After lunch, students gathered in the Witherspoon Concert Hall to hear an interactive performance given by the Omaha Symphony. The symphony opened with Symphonie Espagnole Mvt. 1 "Allegro non troppo" written by Édouard Lalo featuring student performer Steven Pruss on the violin from Benson High School. During the concert there were many interactive opportunities for students to get involved with what was happening on stage. The first interactive portion was all about line and what makes a line. The audience participated in doing the wave and then so did the Omaha Symphony in slow motion. It was all about how the line only existed while being created. Then the host related line to music and how a line would sound in music and how different lines would also sound. While making these connections different images of quilts were displayed on the screen that was a visual representation of how the line that was being played would look visually. The next portion of the concert focused on connecting lines with dance moves and how they only existed while being performed. The last interactive portion had to do with visual art, music, dance, and color. They talked about the primary colors and what each color could represent. They connected each color to an emotion, a movement, and a sound. Students were given choices of different descriptive words that could be used to describe each color like loud and fast and then the symphony would play a song to fit those descriptive words to how that color would sound. The last song that the orchestra played was Billy the Kid Waltz by Aaron Copland. While the song was being played students were asked to think about how this song would look if it was a quilt? What kinds of lines and colors would be used?
Below are some images from our day, click on the image to enlarge it!
Students also went a docent guided tour through 1 of 4 sections of the museum. They either went on the Explore European Art Tour, American Art Experience Tour, Movements in Modern & Contemporary Art Tour, or Patterns & Purpose: American Quilts Tour which was a traveling art exhibit. While on these tours students interacted with the art doing different activities while in the galleries.
After lunch, students gathered in the Witherspoon Concert Hall to hear an interactive performance given by the Omaha Symphony. The symphony opened with Symphonie Espagnole Mvt. 1 "Allegro non troppo" written by Édouard Lalo featuring student performer Steven Pruss on the violin from Benson High School. During the concert there were many interactive opportunities for students to get involved with what was happening on stage. The first interactive portion was all about line and what makes a line. The audience participated in doing the wave and then so did the Omaha Symphony in slow motion. It was all about how the line only existed while being created. Then the host related line to music and how a line would sound in music and how different lines would also sound. While making these connections different images of quilts were displayed on the screen that was a visual representation of how the line that was being played would look visually. The next portion of the concert focused on connecting lines with dance moves and how they only existed while being performed. The last interactive portion had to do with visual art, music, dance, and color. They talked about the primary colors and what each color could represent. They connected each color to an emotion, a movement, and a sound. Students were given choices of different descriptive words that could be used to describe each color like loud and fast and then the symphony would play a song to fit those descriptive words to how that color would sound. The last song that the orchestra played was Billy the Kid Waltz by Aaron Copland. While the song was being played students were asked to think about how this song would look if it was a quilt? What kinds of lines and colors would be used?
Below are some images from our day, click on the image to enlarge it!