Dear Caroline:
I would like to suggest potential fresh ideas and three student ready
immediately infusible projects which are replicable, which I am
confident will have wide appeal for students 8-18.
What these projects had in common are they were all outgrowths of our
umbrella web resource, Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?
Title of the Project
Miho Museum - Online Shangri-La Art Gallery
Academic focus: Multicultural/Japan studies, diversity perspectives,
humanities, global studies, Asian Studies and also it is Literary Genre
Fine Arts and inquiry based research.
Learning Goals:
Develop a series of Miho cultural resource interview questions.
Create artwork computer Graphics ellectronic gallery artwork to realize
their vision and understanding of their Shangri-La literary genre.
Cultivate and maintain a cultural centered telecommunications peer
exchange.
Summary:
Student watched a video tape of the Miho Museum on the Mountain provided
by Ovation TV ArtsZone.
They formulated questions based on the screening which were answered by
their peers in Japan.
They created paradise inspired artwork for the electronic gallery
Student samples can be seen at :
/13681/data/museum/trees.htm
Replicability Adaptation Potential
This project could be used as a activity model for any global or
distanced cultural arts institute study wherein students address about
the institution itself and its region to their peer and using their
title of an ongoing cultural arts collection, theme installation or
exhibit, utilize graphic arts to create their own gallery conterparts.
Codex Comes to Kennedy
Academic Focus: Fine Arts Art History Scientific Inquiry, Cause and
Effect problem solving.
Learning Goals:
To maintain journal entries of inquiry based observations of school
community inquiry based observations, hypothesis, and drawings of these
observations.
Summary :
Students viewed the Video Codex Come Home produced by Ovation TV ArtZone
and we asked to maintain journal entries of cause and effect
observations as Leonardo did in his notesbooks.
The observations were sketched or written over a period of time.
Excellent examples were published on the Web Site.
/13681/data/museum/codex.htm
Replicability Adaptation Potential
Students can use these samples as a catalyst to their own journal
maintainance and publication and may even wish to peer critique Kennedy
High School Student models.
Leonardo's Bronx Horse
/13681/data/museum/horse.htm
A multidisciplinary "model" motivator.
Academic focus: Historical research, historical fiction, current events,
cultural arts, fine arts studies biography studies, digital photography,
and web page design.
Learning Goals:
Do primary source research in artist diaries and notebooks.
Investigate and maintain print and online commonplace book (tracking of
cultural arts, travels and coverage) .
Develop a digitized photo gallery of a particular visited monument or a
virtual field trip to a cultural arts monument/institution.
Author reflections, responses and creative writing interior monologues,
stories, poetry etc.
As part of their Leonardo diary studies, students read about and
reflected on Leonardo's designs for a horse statue. They found out that
this design was never realized in his lifetime. But as part of their
maintainance of their commonplace book, they discovered that a Japanese
artist created a model of Leonardo's horse which was on exhibit in New
York State. Representatives of the Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling project
journeyed upstate to the Tallix Foundry to digitally photographed it,
interviewed other vistors and created a web page.
Replicability Adaptation Potential
News based cultural Arts History developments photos and reportage can
be used as a catalyst for: Creative student writings, reflections,
viewer receivership responses to Art, and student developed web site
cultural arts reports.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Steve Feld
Subject:
Re: Site Recommendation
Date:
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:43:28 -0700
From:
Steve Feld
Organization:
John F. Kennedy High School
To:
Richard_Hacken@byu.edu
Richard_Hacken@byu.edu wrote:
This is a great site!
For EuroDocs it doesn't fit the qualifications, though, since EuroDocs
is strictly limited to primary documents. If you have Leonardo documents
at a specific URL within the site, please let me know!
Regards,
R. Hacken
................................................
> Richard Hacken
> European Studies Bibliographer
> Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
> e-mail: Richard_Hacken@byu.edu
> phone: (801) 378-2374
> webpages: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/
> ................................................
Dear Richard:
Thanks for your interest...
We have several primary source web research materials and supportive
documents.
For example we now know who the Musician is in Leonardo's Portrait of a
Musician, as a result of our Thinkquest project and investigation.
/13681/data/learn/music1.htm
Our science driven inquiry compares the theories of Dr. Lillian Schwartz
and Rina de Firenze, author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa.
/13681/data/science.htm
We proudly feature original Da Vinci Music, which is an Internet
exclusive.
/13681/data/link3.htm
Since our project is virtual one, these web documents are primary source
materials for the Internet, including the celebration on Leonardo's
Bronze Horse.
/13681/data/museum/horse.htm
I hope you consider it so, as well.
Thanks for your encouragement.
Although our site was created with 15 year old computers, we are listed
in the Vatican. And we are also part of the Getty Museum's Digital
Experience and the Boston Science Museum. We are listed in the
Smithsonian but it would bring honor to our site if we were to be listed
at Brigham Young, the birthplace of Computer Graphics.
I will be presenting at the Siggraph'99 Conference on August 10. I hope
you are planning to attend.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best personal regards,
Steve Feld
