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Art of the City School Tour

 

Art of the City School Tour

Designed for kindergarten through 8th grade students, the Art of the City school tour looks at modern artists’ interpretations of urban life and fosters students' appreciation of their own cities and communities.  Students discuss geometry, mapping, and symbols in city-themed works such as Paul Klee’s Way to the Citadel, Honoré Daumier's The Uprising, and Adolph Gottlieb's The Seer. They also consider the African American migration from the rural South to Northern cities, as depicted in Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series.

Gallery activities:
Each tour stop is accompanied by a cross-curricular gallery activity; activities may include writing imaginative poems and stories, drawing city shapes, and creating symbols and maps.

Curriculum connections:
• Language arts: oral and written, creating meaning with symbols
• Social studies: communities (neighborhood and city), transportation, geography
• Visual arts: color, shape and pattern, architecture, perspective

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Edward Hopper, Approaching a City, 1946.

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread, 1940-1941. © 2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.