On Saturday, July 29, educators of all varieties are invited to partake in a hybrid professional development workshop within the walls of OKCMOA’s newest exhibition, True Nature: Rodin and the Age of Impressionism. The workshop will focus on bringing Museum resources into your classroom with:
- Museum professional-led breakout sessions
- Instructional materials
- Lesson planning sessions
- And more!
Teachers will be eligible for four professional development hours from this workshop. Please contact Museum Educator Tori Waldron at twaldron@okcmoa.com if you would like a certificate of professional development.
In-Person Registration
A registration fee of $10 is required for participation, here.
Remote Registration
Remote participants are invited to register at no cost, here.
BONUS: When you sign up to attend you are automatically entered to win the door prize featuring art-making supplies and a dual membership to OKCMOA!
KEYNOTE: Contingent Perception in the Age of Impressionism
How did the aesthetic of impressionism in painting and in sculpture relate to modern ideas of individuality and perception? This talk introduces the movement of impressionism and contextualizes it considering ongoing conversations in science about human experience in both automatic and controlled ways. Then, the talk explores multiple digital tools and thematic assignment ideas to support K-12 teachers’ efforts to integrate this exhibition and its implications into class projects.
Emily C. Burns is the Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and an Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Visual Arts at the University of Oklahoma. Burns is a scholar of the transnational nineteenth century, with an interdisciplinary research practice that analyzes artists and works of art moving through space and between cultures, with a focus on relationships between U.S. and Native American artists, as well as dialogues between French, U.S., and Native American artists. She is the author of Transnational Frontiers: the American West in France (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018) and co-editor of Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts (with Alice M. Rudy Price, Routledge, 2021), as well as co-editor for an issue of Transatlantica on the American West in France (with Agathe Cabau, 2019).
Image Credit: Auguste Rodin, The Shade, (detail) first modelled circa 1880, enlarged circa 1901, this cast 1969 (Musée Rodin 6/12), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of B. Gerald Cantor Art Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
