VMFA Teacher-Directed Gallery Activities can be facilitated by teachers, chaperones, or group leaders and focus on any work of art in any gallery.
Consider combining multiple activities for a fully engaging and enriching experience.
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Simply describing what a work of art looks like tells only part of the story. Try incorporating all of your senses. Put yourself into the work; think about what you might see, feel, hear, taste, or smell and respond. Take it further and have students write poems or short stories about a work of art that…
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Simply describing what a work of art looks like tells only part of the story. Try incorporating all of your senses. Put yourself into the work; think about what you might see, feel, hear, taste, or smell and respond in French. Take it further and have students write poems or short stories about a work of art that inspires them.
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Simply describing what a work of art looks like tells only part of the story. Try incorporating all of your senses. Put yourself into the work; think about what you might see, feel, hear, taste, or smell and respond in German! Take it further and have students write poems or short stories about a work of art that inspires them.
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Simply describing what a work of art looks like tells only part of the story. Try incorporating all of your senses. Put yourself into the work; think about what you might see, feel, hear, taste, or smell and respond in Spanish! Take it further and have students write poems or short stories about a work of art that inspires them.
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Let works of art inspire you. Creative writing is like painting with words—imaginative, descriptive, and original. Writing forms a story or picture in your mind. Look at works of art and respond with similes, sensory inventories, and haikus. This teacher-directed gallery activity is designed to inspire your students to unleash their creativity by responding to works of art in writing.
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Let works of art inspire you. Creative writing is like painting with words—imaginative, descriptive, and original. Writing forms a story or picture in your mind. Look at works of art and respond with similes,sensory inventories, and cinquains. This teacher-directed gallery activity is designed to inspire your students to unleash their creativity by responding to works of art in writing.
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