Get ahead of the competition! Receive supplemental training for coaches and students on the art section of the U.S. Academic Decathlon curriculum. During this broadcast, review artworks featured in the competition and relate them to objects in the Amon Carter Museum’s collection, including Albert Bierstadt’s Sunrise, Yosemite Valley; Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War; Martin Johnson Heade’s Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay; Winslow Homer’s The Letter for Home; and John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman. Time is alloted for questions throughout the broadcast.
Program Format
1. Introductions of presenter and participating sites
2. Overview of the historical time period of the American Civil War, including a discussion of its literature, music, and visual art
3. Discussion of the Academic Decathlon featured artworks
4. Discussion of the Amon Carter Museum’s Civil War–related artworks
5. Questions accepted throughout the broadcast
Cost: $150
Dates: 10/16/07 or 10/29/07 -3:30-5:30pm
Nancy Strickland
nancy.strickland@cartermuseum.org
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107
United States
Phone: (817) 989-5038
Fax: (817) 989-5039