Weekly Collage - 040425

High School alternates Spring Experiential week every other year with travel to Washington, D.C. for our Juniors and Seniors, local overnights for Ninth and Tenth graders, and SF Peninsula Day Trips for all HS students. This year we stayed local with two days off campus at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Hillsdale Mall, complete with an escape room experience and bowling, followed by two days on campus preparing and serving a delicious luncheon to include empanadas from scratch for all of High School.

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How Stanbridge does a Performing Arts Field Trip to SFMOMA
Stanbridge teachers want their students to get the best understanding they can out of Experientials. So, our High Schoolers not only visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, they participated in a scavenger hunt to help them think about art! Two ways to think of art are in terms of form and content.  

• FORM: What qualities make up the physical nature of the work? For example, how does it use shape, line, color or volume? Does it represent a three-dimensional world, or does it look two-dimensional? Is it big or small?
• CONTENT: What does the artwork depict? Does it have people in it? Does it have buildings or trees? Are two armies fighting, or are two lovers cavorting? What do you see happening in the artwork?

Here’s what to do: walk around and look for paintings or sculptures that you think fit the numbered items on the following pages. There are many more than one possible answer for each numbered item. Write the name of the artwork you find next to each number. Then answer the lettered questions that follow. Each student must write his or her own answer, but students may work in groups to arrive at an answer. It is probably easier not to go in order; just fill in blanks as you find them. 

A few of the questions on the hunt were as follows:
1. An artwork you want to walk all the way around. Why did you want to walk all the way around it?
3. A painting with a solid or empty background. Why do you think the painter left detail out of the background? Does this change the way you view the figures in the foreground?
10. An artwork showing danger. What is the source of the danger?

Credit to our Performing Arts teacher Tobias Banks and his father, an English teacher, for the scavenger hunt! It was so much fun!