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State Art Museum Looks To Extend Outreach Effort In Brunswick Countv BY SUSAN USHER Nancy Brantley was on a mission during her two-day visit to Bruns wick County last week. Her aim? To increase the presence of the North Carolina Museum of Art here, spreading the word about the resources available through its outreach program and recruiting out reach volunteers. Helping spread the word was George McDaniel, the first and one of two museum outreach volunteers in Brunswick County. "They've all been so receptive," said Brantley, assistant to the muse um's director for public programs, of contacts made in Brunswick County Tuesday. Tuesday and Wednesday she and McDaniel visited two schools and met with, among others, school offi cials, representatives of local arts or ganizations and the l>ong Beach and Brunswick County Parks and Re creation Departments, and Holden Beach real estate broker Gay Atkins, who is interested in involving the museum in the "Day at the Docks" festival sponsored by the Greater Holden Beach Merchants Associ ation each spring. They also touched base with State Rep. E. David Redwine, who joined third graders for one of McDaniel's lessons last Wednesday morning at Supply Elementary School. The state legislature provides financial support for the museum and its out reach program. "He was very interested in art in the schools overall," said McDaniel. McDaniel, fellow volunteer Ran dy Hohnstreiter and staff members of the museum in Raleigh offer an array of services to the local com munity, at no charge. Volunteers are prepared to present one-time only programs or a series of lessons on art heritage and art awareness, using slide programs tar geted at different age groups and settings. They bring images and in formation into kindergarten through senior high classrooms, and to com munity organizations, churches or groups of any type. Museum staff members are avail able to make group presentations, jury art shows and provide consulta tion to arts organizations. Slide program offerings include titles such as "The Art We Love To Hale," "The Christmas Story," "The Maya Before Columbus" and "What is American About American Art?" Subjects range from the nativity as depicted in art, 800 years of French art and a behind the scenes look at what art museum employees actual ly do, to images of Greek mythology and architecture using the museum's building as an example. Each program features slides of either pieces in the museum's per manent collection (which may or may not be on display at a particular time) or in special exhibitions. For example, a current slide program, "Yoruba Art: A Living Tradition," is based on an exhibition of African ceremonial art on view at the muse um through June 1994. McDaniel or Hohnstreiter will be presenting that program in January to the Brier wood Women's Club in Shallotte. Sometime in January a new slide program will become available that will be based on a new exhibition of masterpieces of European painting from the museum's own Samuel H. Kress Collection and the Kress col lections of several other museums nationwide. The museum already has a solid outreach effort begun with the Brunswick County Schools. McDaniel introduced the Arts in the Schools program in Brunswick County last year at Union Ele mentary School. This fall. Supply Elementary School art teacher Me mory Goforth invited McDaniel to that school after hearing good re views from Union art teacher Angie Gingras. Parents responded positive ly to sample lessons presented dur ing an open house at Supply Ele mentary School, McDaniel said. "One mother was insisting, 'My child has got to see these.'" While lessons in the two series (for third- and fourth -grade stu dents) are part of the art curriculum, they also reinforce ideas taught in the state social studies curriculum and teach keener observation and critical thinking skills. McDaniel said. Presenters use open-ended questions that invite students to par ticipate, and guide them toward de sired conclusions. Ideally the four in-class discus sion lessons are followed by a guid ed tour of the art museum, where de lighted youngsters get to see some of the actual pieces of art they have studied in slides. As a starting point for bringing more museum resources into the schools, Brantley plans to work with school system Cultural Arts Co ordinator Steve Skillman to offer workshops for art teachers and teachers in other disciplines, such as social studies, related to the museum programs. "We will be teaching them how to use slide programs based on the mu seum collection," said Brantley. Teachers can have a presenter come in to their classrooms or elect to use the slide programs on their own. Both Brantley and Goforth be lieve there are definite advantages to the former. "Even if we had more art history materials available at the school," said Goforth, "it is still beneficial to have outside people come in. It makes the program special and it show show important the program is. And it makes the students feel special." The program is going well at Supply, she said. "The feedback I'm getting from classes is that the chil dren like it. It's something different from what have ordinarily. It's visu al and it relates well to what they're doing in their other lessons. "The third graders are really re sponsive. They are so eager to learn. When they see something that isn't realistic, but that they can still relate to, that's an eye opener." Brantley and McDaniel hope to see Arts in the Schools eventually expand into all county elementary schools as a larger corps of museum outreach volunteers is recruited lo cally. "Volunteers don't have to have an 1 art degree or art background. In fact it may be just as well that they don't," said McDaniel. "You must follow a script prepared by the mu- I seum staff ? and it works!" What they do need, said Brantley, I is a desire "to give something back to the community and a cultural in terest. They need an understanding of the importance of art." I Through daylong Saturday train ing sessions held each September r and March in Raleigh, the outreach C volunteers learn about the museum's p CLUB BRIEFS VFW Presents Copies Of Alleqiance To School Four members of the Holden Beach Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8866 Ladies Auxiliary present ed copies of the "Pledge of Al legiance" to students at Supply Ele mentary School last Wednesday. Auxiliary past president Bertie Callan and members Jackie Dilley, Marjorie Watkins and M Lou Spencer presented the copies to stu dents in the kindergarten, first grade and second grade. After learning the pledge, each student will receive a Young Ameri can Award sponsored by the VFW of the United States and its Ladies Auxiliary. Luncheon Slated The Town Creek Sr. Citizens will meet for a Christmas covered-dish luncheon Thurs., Dec. 2, at noon at for the 1993-94 year. Each person is the Town Creek Comm. Building. asked to bring a $3 gift to exchange. 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Lamnkri U mhrtai, Mjrii Btaci. huktn t, KM/k, Sctfori, Smmbcn, Vdma/km Sww?Ar\i ^<Wisc*>ce Xrr9**,?'~v?\ VW?w?k SW* CoIq|n faWe poiftcrn Co?rabflfc*\ Space hon:<*>U\< QNerVx^p ?AQ I rt\idd^^eut>a ' bocXC^<Jw>d rcoh&c STAff" PHOTO BY SU&AN USHE* MUSEUM OUTREACH VOLUNTEER George McDaniel discusses his Arts in the Schools program at Supply Elementary with Nancy Brantley of the North Carolina Museum of Art. collection, how to lead discussions requests from throughout their home McDaniel, at 910-579-2163, or using the slide-script programs, how communities. Brantley, at 919-833-1935, (FAX) to operate a slide projector and some To schedule a program, or to find 919-733-8034, or by writing her at basic presentation skills. Then out how to become a museum out- the museum. 2110 Blue Ridge Road, they're ready to respond to program reach volunteer, contract either Raleigh, N.C. 27607-6494. 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