Category: Education

  • Learning Creatively
    July 16, 2014 by

    What can children learn in a museum? What new ideas can they understand from works of art? We are pleased to report that this past Wednesday’s Preschool Art Enrichment Program was a great success. Children of four and five years of age, along with their parents joined us for play and learning at the Owsley Museum […]

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  • Thinking Out Loud
    June 9, 2014 by

    Although this past Wednesday was a rainy day it yielded quality experiences. Museum educators, Cathy Bretz and Tania Said led the Lunch and Learn: The Art of Thinking Out Loud, which included interesting works in the collection that are not typically on view at the museum. The discussion on three prints by William Hogarth (not […]

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  • Chemical Analysis of Christ, 1225
    March 31, 2014 by

    Department of Chemistry Chair Dr. Patricia Lang and Ball State student Heidi Noneman have been working on taking paint samples from the Christ sculpture in Museum of Art’s west gallery of Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque art. These samples will be used to identify which pigments on the sculpture are original as well as which […]

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