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Very Special Arts Sacramento students go to The Crocker Art Museum: Tuesday, January 9, 2007
As part of its Education Outreach programming, the Crocker Art Museum invited two Very Special Arts classes to come to the museum for a guided tour and printmaking workshop. Middle School students from Leonardo da Vinci K-8 School and Transition students from CSUS were given a tour focusing on the museum's portrait collection. The tour guides engaged the students in a discussion about what portraits can tell us about people and the times and places they inhabit. After the tour, the students made their own portraits with a professional community artist in the museum's J. Brown Maloney Gallery. The students created their portraits with printmaking ink on plexi-glass squares. Each student then got a chance to run their square through a printing press to create a mono-print. "The students learned a lot about portraiture and the printmaking process," said an assistant at the Crocker Art Museum, "and they seemed to have a really great time!"
- Leonardo da Vinci school students answering questions posed by the Crocker Art Museum docent
