The Visual Arts

Teaching artists engage participants in projects that explore the aesthetics of various cultures and historical styles. They explore themes that represent values and the continuity in cultures. They find the why behind choices in color, in the quality of line, in unique uses of materials and methods. They may create assemblages, form figures in clay, expressing their own In the past students have studied such works as

• Jamaican Folk Art by Eunice Lafate.
• The Maori carvings in the Polynesian Galleries at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
• East Indian bronze and stone sculptures at the Smithsonian
• Treasury of the Soul: “Who Is Rich?” at the American Visionary Art Museum
• Islamic artifacts at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
• Mayan art and African artifacts at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
• African Masks from the University Gallery and the Paul Jones Collection of African American Art at the University of Delaware
• Haitian Flags from the Collection of Nancy Josephson
• Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century, Delaware Art Museum
• Alison Saar prints at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art and Ancient American Artifacts from the University of Delaware.

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