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Teacher Reflections

“Thank you for the outreach program, which you provided to the Charleroi area elementary Center. This was a huge help in implementing the state standards for art history because we were able to integrate an entire art history unit about Andy Warhol into our curriculum. We have limited resources at Charleroi, and I wanted to teach the students about someone famous that lived locally, and recently. The students were able to absorb the information very well because they got to see the work first hand, and then create a similar piece of art using the silkscreen process during the follow up outreach week at our school. It was good for them to be exposed to new methods and materials that otherwise they would never have gotten the opportunity to use. Many of the students had never been to Pittsburgh or a Museum, and it had a huge impact particularly on those children from underprivileged families.

Many students were able to grasp how Andy Warhol turned pop culture into art, and many of them have been able to use this experience as a lens with which to see significant events in their own lives and look at them with an eye toward artistic expression and creativity.”

 

 


Student Projects & Adaptations: Charleroi
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Michael Flaherty, Visual Arts
Mary Tremonte, Artist Educator, The Andy Warhol Museum

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Summary:
Michael Flaherty used the History and Memory unit with the entire 5th grade at Charleroi Elementary School. His proposal to the Andy Warhol Museum stressed a desire to incorporate historical context in the arts. Prior to visiting the Museum the students talked about collective memory and conducted intergenerational interviews as homework. The students also explored various websites about John F. Kennedy to learn more about his presidency. At The Warhol Museum the students toured the special exhibition “Image, Memory, Myth” and used the Flashbulb Memory activity in the galleries.


Adaptations:
Due to the large number of students involved in this unit The Warhol Museum sent Artist-Educator Mary Tremonte to Charleroi to teach and train five students from each of Mr. Flaherty’s five art classes in silk-screening, with the purpose of passing on their knowledge to fellow students during printing days the following week. The students used images from 9-11 and discussed which images they recognized and what they represented both in history and in present culture.

 

 
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