Educational programs

The Haggerty Museum’s primary focus is education.

Successfully integrating Haggerty Museum exhibitions and events into the Marquette curriculum is a primary concern of the museum. Educational programs can be tailored to the needs of professors from all disciplines and can focus on current exhibitions or works from the museum’s permanent collection. The Haggerty provides a variety of educational services for school children and adults, including free docent-led tours, teacher packets, hands-on workshops, exhibition-related lectures and gallery talks, performances, and concerts. Gallery guides are available for most exhibitions, and catalogs are published for major exhibitions. For information or to schedule a class or tour, please contact Lynne Shumow, curator of education, at 414.288.5915.

Picasso Across Curriculum

An outreach program presented by the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University

The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University is offering Picasso Across Curriculum, an arts education project for 3rd through 8th grade students, during the 2009-2010 school year. The point of departure for the project is the Haggerty portfolio Picasso-Guernica, featuring 42 lithographs of the preliminary drawings for Picasso’s masterwork. An in-depth curriculum guide developed by Linda Kreft, (retired director, Technology-Curriculum Resource Center, Milwaukee Public Schools) will provide teachers with a variety of ways in which the Picasso portfolio can be integrated into classroom curriculum. Subjects including war, the history of Spain, Picasso’s African and Oceanic influences, and many others are covered in the guide. Artist and educator Shirah Apple will present the materials and hands-on workshops to students in MPS and private schools. Apple will work with teachers, prior to the presentation, to select the subject matter most appropriate for his/her class. Students from Marquette’s College of Education Art 2330 class (Art Across Curriculum) will assist Apple with the presentations and workshops. The Picasso project will, subsequently, have the dual focus of training education students to integrate the visual arts into classroom curriculum while teaching elementary school students about the life and works of Pablo Picasso and associated subject matter.

The presentations will be offered on Fridays throughout the school year. Each session will be 1-2 hours in duration and will be free of charge. To schedule a Picasso Across Curriculum presentation, please contact Lynne Shumow at 414-288-5915.

Picasso Across Curriculum guide for teachers