The Dayton Art Institute
Overview of Education Programs at Dayton Art Institute The Lange Family Experiencenter Special exhibitions What is a Masterpiece! School and adult tours led by museum-trained docents – Yeck Endowment Programs Art Classes – Summer Camp – Draw from the Collection – Tour & Workshops Family Programs: – Tiny Thursdays, Super Saturdays Last year, education programs reached over 36,000 people
Lessons the Arts Teach Adapted from E. Eisner, The Arts and the Creation of the Mind (2002) National Art Education Association The arts enable us to have experiences we can have from no other source... Tours Workshops Gallery Guides
The arts teach that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. Docent Corps 60 Active 15 Alumni 22 Emeriti Toured with over 5000 students and adults in 2015
The arts teach that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. School Tours and Workshops Free Docent led Tours of Permanent Collection for K-12 RTA Bussing Program $7 per student workshops that tie into tours Special Exhibition Tours and Workshops
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. Family Programs Tiny Thursdays Super Saturdays Halloween, 2013
The arts teach us to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Summer Camps In 2015: 6 weeks Many different camps Over 200 students, grades PreK-12 Learn composition and technique Visit galleries
The arts teach us to work through and within a material. Dorothy and Bill Yeck Education Endowment Programs 2014 Yeck College Artist Fellows with Dorothy Myers Yeck Scholarship Studio Yeck High School Scholarship Students
The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The Lange Family Experiencenter Decked OutEye Teasers