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Sunnylands Virtual Lessons
Explore some of our team’s favorite topics with our new virtual lessons, designed to drop in to live, distant learning classes. Bring NEW programming to your high school students (grades 9 – 12) with engaging and thoughtful content. Expand your curriculum with programming offered through convenient scheduling and design with one-part lessons or series programs that go deeper into focused content. There is a minimal class size requirement of 15 and a maximum class size of 45.
Chose from the list below to begin exploring.
Title: COLOR and HUMANS
Status: Open
Instructor: Michaeleen Gallagher, Director of Education and Environmental Programs
Tools: Zoom, chat, polling and shared screen for PowerPoint slides and video.
Class description:
How did blue climb from a color of disdain to the most revered? How does red balance between deviance and power? How did purple build coastlines and almost destroy an entire species?
In this three-part series, students will discover the history of pigments, color creation, and sources. We will explore the effect of color on culture, economy, science, the environment, and our health. Where did colors come from and how have they helped us see our world and shape our beliefs? (This is a three-part series, so you will need to select three days of drop-in times per classroom.)
Part 1 – Color and Sight—We will consider some of the science behind how we see color, how our eyes help our brain interpret color, and how humans have organized and reorganized color through the centuries. (45 min)
Part 2 – The Power of Primaries—Explore the power of reds, blues, yellows and some of their secondary colors through human history. (45 min)
Part 3 – The Rest of the Story—Explore a few more colors and discuss our attraction to certain ones. (45 min)
Title: The Museum Revealed—Addressing 21st Century Challenges
Status: Open
Instructor: Ivonne Miranda, Education specialist
Tools: Zoom, chat, polling and shared screen for power point slides.
Class description:
What is the role of a museum in a changing world? How does a museum handle contemporary issues to stay relevant and accessible?
In this interactive session, students will step into different roles and discuss how to approach challenges related to art and society from the perspective of collections management, exhibition development, and education and accessibility.
Title: Art of the Ordinary
Status: Open
Instructor: Ivonne Miranda, Education specialist
Tools: Zoom, chat, polling and shared screen for PowerPoint slides.
Class description:
It’s common to separate the functional and practical from the decorative and artistic.
In this session, students will take a closer look at the design of objects we encounter every day and how those design decisions come to be. We will also discover artists who have been inspired to use ordinary materials and objects to create works of art. Students might feel inspired to offer alternative designs to some of the objects they use every day.
Title: Who Tells Your Story? The Challenges of Public Art
Status: Open
Instructor: Ivonne Miranda, Education specialist
Tools: Zoom, chat, polling and shared screen for PowerPoint slides.
Class description:
Our collective memory, our public identity and our responses to our time are reflected in many ways in public works of art. But in a diverse society, how do public expressions of art coexist and engage with multiple perspectives and opinions? Is public art democratic? Should it be?
In this session, students will explore diverse examples of public art from around the world, its history and some of the contemporary challenges to engaging public spaces.
Sunnylands Instructors
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Michaeleen Gallagher
Director, Sunnylands Center & GardensMichaeleen joined The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in 2011, creating the Department of Education and Environmental Programs focusing on public engagement and environmental projects. With a background in science and education, she currently holds a master of science in environmental policy and management from University of Denver; a bachelor of arts in art history from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and certificates in environmental leadership, permaculture landscape design.
Michaeleen has worked in environmental education and research tagging hummingbirds, and in wildlife rescue at the Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter in North Carolina and in Virginia, with an emphasis on birds of prey. She was the education specialist at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, and The Fleet Science Center in San Diego. She spent three years teaching in Japan and served as a key volunteer advisor for the U.S. Marine Corps at Headquarters Battalion, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Active in the cultural sector, Michaeleen is a founding member of the Coachella Valley Days of Los Muertos collaborative. She served as president for the California Association of Museums (CAM), and chair of the Green Museums Initiative. She is currently a member of the CAM Strategic Action Committee, a steering committee member for The Museums Collaborative Network, and former fellow and board member for the International Environmental Communication Association.
Publications and exhibitions include: Flight Plan: The Birds of Sunnylands; Art & Nature: The Gardens at Sunnylands; and two education guides for the IMAX films, Magic of Flight and Everest.
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Ivonne M. Miranda Correa
Bilingual Art SpecialistSince 2014, Ivonne Miranda Correa has served as the bilingual art specialist at The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands where she designs educational art programs for various audiences and collaborates in the translation into Spanish of interpretive materials. She earned a Master of Arts in cultural agency and administration from the University of Puerto Rico, a certificate in museum studies from Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor’s of Arts in public communication with a concentration in audiovisual communication from the University of Puerto Rico. She worked for seven years as an educator at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico.
Her interest in museum work began after attending the weeklong workshop Behind the Scenes at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. in 2006, where she experienced museum practice firsthand. Currently, Ivonne also serves on the Marks Art Center Arts Advisory Committee at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California, where she advises on and supports the gallery’s mission. She’s a member of the California Association of Museums and has led creative stations at its annual conference for several years.
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