We are pleased to announce the 2012 Summer Education Department Internship for the Nasher Sculpture Center. The internship is open to students with at least two years of work towards a B.A. in Studio Art, Art History or Art Education.
Please click here for a PDF describing the position and application process, or view the information in the employment section of the Nasher website here.
Applications are now being accepted.
On the last visit of our 2011 program, girls looked at art through the lenses of fact and opinion.
To wrap up the program, we hosted a special family reception for participants.
This week, the girls learned about comparison and how comparing one artwork to another cant teach you more about both.
Girls sharpened their skills by comparing everyday objects
Outside, the girls made comparisons between artworks by Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra
Comparing Diana Al-Hadid's installation with the Nasher building
In the classroom, girls created small sculptures and large drawings, then compared their 2-D and 3-D work
This week, the theme was “categorization.”
Girls learn the word of the day
Girls sketch artworks within a category of their choice.
In the classroom, the girls created mini galleries with artworks that fit into a category
For the fourth year, girls from Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas visited the Nasher as a part of Nasher 3:01 Club.
Girls will be learning critical thinking skills while interacting with works in the Nasher Collection and special exhibitions by artists Tony Cragg and Diana Al-Hadid. This week, the key skill was “justification.”
Girls wear their "thinking caps" while looking at Tony Cragg's Eroded Landscape
Girls justify their opinions about the artworks
Viewing Tony Cragg's Elbow
Writing down justifications
Girls then met with clients who commissioned them to design public sculptures based on their tastes.
Meeting with client "Ms. Modern"
Meeting with clilent "Mr. Curve"
Meeting with client "Ms. Flora"
Meeting with client "Mr. Fancy"
Completed designs:
School-age children who live or attend school in Dallas are invited to enter the Nasher’s Make Your Mark contest in conjunction with the Mayor’s Summer Reading Program. Contest participants will submit their designs for an original Nasher bookmark. Three age-category winners will receive special prize packs, and the grand prize winner will have his or her bookmark offered for sale in the Nasher Store! The 2011 Mayor’s Summer Reading Program is presented by the Mayor’s Office and the Dallas Public Library. For contest information, please click here.
This week, 30 students from all over the DFW Metroplex have been spending time getting to know the Nasher and meeting a variety of artists and arts professionals.
Photos from the week are posted on the Nasher Facebook page here.
Below are videos created by the students. Each group was asked to respond to a space in the Nasher garden using sound.
There are still spaces available in both NasherKids Camp sessions!
NasherKids campers will become artists in action, discovering the history of sculpture through stories and games, and creating works of art in the style of the masters!
Camps are open to children who have completed grades 1 – 4 in 2011.
Members $125. Non-Members $150
Space is limited to 25 campers per session.
June 27 – July 1
9 am – 12 noon, daily
July 11 – 15
9 am – 12 noon, daily
Register now! Registration is currently open.
Click here for registration form.
This was the final week for the fall 2010 session of 3:01 Club. The girls made one last thinking cap to add to their list of concepts: “Fact & Opinion.” We took a tour of the galleries and compared our opinions with facts about the artworks.
Exchanging facts and opinions about Anish Kapoor's In Search of the Mountain I
Afterward, we invited parents and staff from Girls Inc. to join us for a reception. The girls enjoyed gelato and presented the new words they learned to the adults.
Gelato!
A group of girls presents one of the words they've learned
We wrapped up with a special visit to James Turrell’s Tending, (Blue) after dark. It is always an amazing experience!
The girls "tend blue"
We’d like to give special thanks to Girls Inc. of Metropolitan Dallas for partnering with us to offer this program for the past three years, and a big thank you to the girls for all of their enthusiasm, curiosity and creativity. Thanks as well to Christina Rees, Dr. Roslyn A. Walker, Monica Sifuentez, and Marin Sullivan for their inspiring Women in the Arts profiles.
Thanks for a great four weeks, everyone!
This week, the girls learned how to compare one work of art to another by looking for what is the same and what is different.
The "Compare" thinking cap
We experienced the artworks Tending, (Blue) by James Turrell and My Curves Are Not Mad by Richard Serra, then compared the two.
Looking at the sky in Tending, (Blue)
Coming out of My Curves Are Not Mad
After viewing the installation Double Torque by Alyson Shotz…
Double Torque on the Nasher Cafe wall
…the girls made their own “thread drawings” and compared their results.
A completed thread drawing
Thread design
Thread design
Comparing the results
