Home school tours
Tours are designed to present a rich visual arts experience, increase students' perceptual and critical thinking skills, engage students in active looking and discussions, and enrich and extend school curricula.
Free Home School Tours
The Brooks is pleased to offer free tours to home school students and their parents. On selected days during the school year, the museum’s trained volunteer docents provide thematic tours of the museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions. Students 6-18 also participate in a hands-on, art-making activity that complements the content of their tour. While the other students are in the studio, pre-school aged children enjoy story time.
Tours are held from 11 am - 12:30 pm and 1 - 2:30 pm. Individual reservations are required, but there is not a minimum number per group. For upcoming events and activities please view the calendar of events. Registration for 2010 fall sessions begins August 3, 2010.
Fall 2010
Thursday, September 16 | 11 am and 1 pm
Who Shot Rock & roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the
Present
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is an exhibition about the men and women who have photographed one of the most important cultural revolutions ever, rock and roll. The music needed images to communicate its message of rebellion, freedom, and personal reinvention. The best photography of rock is skillful, creative, compelling, and underrated. It provides not only documentary evidence of cultural change but parallels the energy and potency of the music itself. Rock photographers see themselves as going to the front lines and not returning until they capture the frenetic energy, euphoria, and freedom that is rock and roll. They say, correctly, that no one would believe in the revolution unless there were pictures. Who Shot Rock & Roll will provide an opportunity for the public to see many of the original prints and to learn the names of the photographers who shot some of the world’s most iconic images. For, like the musicians they photographed, they, too, changed the world and how we see it.
Thursday, November 18 | 11 am and 1 pm
Winslow Homer: Poetry and Fiction
The evocative and beautiful wood engravings of Winslow Homer (1836-1910) captured American life in the decades before photography became the preferred medium for illustrating the news. Appearing in magazines such as Harper’s Weekly, his work offered a visual complement to stories of daily life, popular fiction, or major political events. The exhibition of 55 wood engravings includes a full range of Homer’s illustrations, from charming images of children at play or vacationers at the beach, to more somber depictions of soldiers on the front lines of the Civil War. Focusing on the early years of Homer’s career, it offers visitors a chance to experience the artist’s remarkably poignant and enduring images of life in the United States during the mid-1800s.
To Register for Home School Sessions
(Registration begins August 3, 2010)
If registering by email or by phone, please provide the parents name, email address, home address, phone number, children's names, ages, session date, and time preferences.By email: edu@brooksmuseum.org
By phone: 901.544.6242