Arts & Entertainment Sheldon gallery a cultural trip for grade-school kids Analysis by Mick Dyer Staff Reporter For grade-school children, field trips break up the monotony of the normal school year. No matter how interested the students are in the subject of the trip, they always look forward to the adven ture and the change of pace a field trip provides. As adults, field trips arc often among our fondest memories of grade school, right up there with getting picked on by the big kids, the mi. ta'y-likc environment of the cafeteria and the personal in sights gained from spending hours with the special reading group down in the grade school base ment. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery offers field trips to grade school children attending Lincoln Public Schools. Such tours can leave lasting impressions on grow ing minds. Karen Janovy, education coor dinator for the gallery, arranges the field trips requested by the schools. Once the classes arrive at the gallery, they arc divided into small groups. The groups are led through the gallery by volunteer guides who have undergone inten sive training to explain and answer questions about items in the gal lery. Sally Raglin has been a tour guide at the gallery for 15 years. It’s a job she enjoys. “It’s really fun to see and hear the kids’ reactions to the things they see in the gallery,” she said. She look eight Lakeview Ele mentary students from Marcella Bohart’s fourth-grade class on a tour through the gallery last Wednesday. She began by explaining to the group the purpose of the gallery and asking them not to touch any of the art on display. She asked what kinds of art projects the students were working on. They told her about the pop corn and cranberries they were stringing for Christmas orna ments. With that information, she found a starting point for the lour. Raglm then led her group to rooms on the second floor to look at some ol the artwork in the gallery's permanent collection. Andrea Hoy/Daily Nebraskan Shana Yaussi (left), Brandon Behrends and Tom Hague, sixth-graders at Lakeview School, look at a statue during a school tour at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. There the students had the oppor tunity to l(H>k at a w ide variety of art styles, from classical to mod ern. The first piece the group stopped at was a scrap-metal sculpture of a horse entitled “Derby Horse,” by Deborah But terfield. As the students looked at the work, Raglin demonstrated how artists use various materials to create art, comparing the cran bcrry-and-popcom strings to the See SHELDON on 9 ♦ ATTENTION i t DECEMBER f ♦ GRADUATES ♦ ^ The DEADLINE for the return of the yellow ^ Commencement Attendance Form is: A X DECEMBER 10, 1987 1 ▲ Return it to ^ I SERVICE COUNTER B I J 107 Administration Building J ■ ■ Sen York 's Finest I’uzu and Hot Hoagies Open until 1:30 a.m. during dead week beginning Dec. 7 through finals week. Call for campus delivery, or come in for carry out or / dining room service. Good Luck on Finals! j ^ TWO FAMOUS 12" HOT HOAGIES AND ONE QUART PEPSI. One coupon per order please expires 12-20^87 I I I I I I I I l ONE MEDIUM 1-ITEM "NEW YORK STYLE" PIZZA AND ONE QUART PEPSI. | Offer good on 1-item pizza only. Additional toppings 85* ! i