© Cara Romero, Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery, All rights reserved.
Art Assignment:
Teaching and Learning with FAM’s Collection
January 3–April 7, 2024 (Closed January 31–February 6 and March 23–April 1)
Opening Reception
Friday, February 9, 5–7 p.m. | Flaten Art Museum
This event is free, family-friendly, and open to all.
For Faculty and Staff: Teaching with Art Across the Curriculum
Tuesday, March 5, 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. | CAD Link
This event is for St. Olaf faculty and staff, co-presented by the Flaten Art Museum and the Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts (CILA). RSVP to attend.
Works of art are portals, critiques, appetizers, mirrors, salves, and time machines. Art Assignment: Teaching and Learning with FAM’s Collection highlights the ways St. Olaf faculty enrich their curriculum with artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features six salient themes that resonate across the college curriculum, offering a springboard for creative and critical exploration across academic disciplines: Photography and Power, Technical Art History, Korean Material Culture, Visualizing Mathematics, Sensing Abstraction, Gender and Propaganda.
The exhibition’s interdisciplinary Teaching Guide features images and conversation prompts that engage the artwork on display.
Why Teach with Art?
Object-based learning fosters critical thinking, creative expression, writing, public speaking, and the understanding of alternative perspectives through group discussion and visual literacy. The Flaten Art Museum works with faculty across academic disciplines to customize class visits and design assignments that align with course objectives. Museum staff make object-based learning approachable and enriching with a learner-centered method of talking about art called Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS).
Student engagement can happen during a single class period or a sequence or related visits. Resulting projects may include conversation in a foreign language, creative writing, research papers, soundscapes, dance, musical performance, drawings, personal reflections, exhibition labels, blog posts, and more. If you are interested in teaching with the Flaten Art Museum, please email museum director Jane Becker Nelson at beckerj@stolaf.edu.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Glen H. and Shirley Beito Gronlund Annual Exhibition Series Fund at St. Olaf College.
Photography and Power Tour – Art Assignment: Teaching and Learning with FAM’s Collection
Date: March 21, 2024, 11:30-12:00
Led by Andrew Mazariegos-Ovalle ‘24, Education and Public Programs Assistant, Flaten Art Museum
Join us for a guided tour of the Photography and Power section of Art Assignment, led by Andrew Mazariegos-Ovalle ‘24. We’ll take a deep dive into the works on view and ask questions relating to themes of power, documentation, and memory.
Technical Art History Tour – Art Assignment: Teaching and Learning with FAM’s Collection
Date: April 4th, 2024, 11:30-12:00
Led by Anika James ‘25, Curatorial Assistant, Flaten Art Museum
Join us for a guided tour of the Technical Art History section of Art Assignment, led by Anika James ‘25. We’ll take a deep dive into the works on view and ask questions relating to themes of authentication, scientific analysis, and stylistic analysis.
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