What: Saturdays in the UNT Galleries
When: 1-3 p.m. April 11 (Saturday)
Where: UNT Art Gallery, 1201 W. Mulberry St. in Denton, on the first floor of the Art Building
Parking: Guests can park for free near the Art Building on Mulberry and Welch.
Cost: Free
What else: Reservations can be made at http://gallery.unt.edu/saturdays
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Students from kindergarten to 12th grade and their families will learn how to experience art at the next UNT Art Gallery Saturday Series program, organized by the University of North Texas Art Galleries in partnership with the UNT chapter of the National Art Education Association.
The free event aimed at children from kindergarten to the 12th grade takes place from 1 to 3 p.m. April 11 (Saturday) at the UNT Art Gallery, located at 1201 W. Mulberry St. in Denton.
David Herman, a photographer and teaching fellow of art education and art history at UNT, will lead the event. Herman will instruct participants on how to view art from a “lived experience standpoint.”
Students will apply this idea to art work from the 55th Annual Voertman Student Art Competition and Exhibition, which will be on display during the event. Herman hopes to explore issues of identity, freedom and liberation through the art and the participant’s experience of them.
“I’m going to attempt to have the students understand the art and the artwork, not by trying to interpret what the artist’s intention was, but what the students themselves regard in the artwork,” said Herman.
In addition to being a teaching fellow at UNT, Herman is also the co-founder and creative director of Preservation LINK, Inc., a non-profit that creates original curricula to educate students in media arts and visual literacy. Herman’s exhibit, “ETCHED IN THE EYES… The Spirit of a People Called Gullah Geechee,” which documents the African diaspora along the southeastern coast of the U.S., has been displayed throughout the South.
Volunteers from the National Art Education Association, who are studying to become art teachers, will help guests with the activities.
Saturdays in the UNT Galleries, takes place four times each academic year. This is the final program for the 2014-15 school year.
The series is sponsored by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and aims to have children and their families engage with visual art through interactive and performance-based interpretation.