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
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