Workshops for Teachers

All courses and workshops are aligned with Georgia's Performance Standards.  To register, contact Julie Green by email at jgree09@emory.edu or by phone at 404-727-2363. Unless otherwise noted, cost for workshops is $7 for Museum members; $10 for non-members.

Thursday, October 13
5 pm, Tate Room 
Emory's Old Kingdom Mummy 
Join Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory University and faculty consultant for ancient Egyptian art at the Carlos, for a discussion of Old Kingdom Egypt and a close look at the oldest Egyptian mummy on this side of the world. Learn how the mummy was collected, how it was conserved, and how funerary art supported and protected the mummy into the next life.   

Thursday, October 27
5 pm, Tate Room 
Sacred Carving of the Ancient Egyptian
Join Dr. Michelle Marlar, Assistant Professor at Morehouse College for an exploration of the history and development of hieroglyphs and some of the major texts that preserve the ancient Egyptian belief system.  Dr. Marlar will look at hieroglyphic carvings in the Museum's Egyptian galleries and  in the exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: Emory's Old Kingdom Mummy.

Thursday, November 10
5 pm, Tate Room 
Learning to See, Learning to Draw  
Led by veteran teacher Cathy Amos, teachers will receive resource materials and will spend time in the galleries practicing a variety of "drawing for learning" processes to aide students in recording and analysis.

Thursday, January 26
5 pm, Tate Room 
Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism
Explore the artistry and symbolism of Buddhist mandalas with Dr. Sara McClintock, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University.  Teachers will tour the exhibition focusing on the forms and symbolism of mandalas, the deities represented in their centers, and their ritual and worldly use.  Objects include painted mandalas, an eight-foot scroll of the human body as a mandala, and three-dimensional mandalas in wood and bronze.

Thursday, February 23
5pm, Tate Room 
Ovid and Virgil for Teachers 
Jasper Gaunt, Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Carlos Museum, will discuss objects in the collection that can be used in teaching Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Aeneid.  Teachers will spend time in the gallery with Dr. Gaunt looking at objects that relate to these texts including the Muses, Aphrodite, Orpheus, Polyphemus, and Achilles.  Teachers will receive images of works in the Carlos collections to use in their classrooms. 

Funding for Field Trips

Need help funding transportation for a Museum visit?

* Kleenex Brand Back to School Sweepstates Program awards grants to keep educational fieldtrips in the curriculum.  See http://facebook.com/Kleenex

* Target Field Trip Grants provides grants that allow teachers and students to learn in all kinds of settings. To apply for a Field Trip Grant go to www.target.com/grants.

PLU Courses for Teachers

The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy
One Performance Learning Unit
Centered around the special exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: Emory's Old Kingdom Mummy on view through December 11, 2011, this one PLU course will feature an in-depth tour of the exhibiton, lectures by noted scholars, and an exploration of the conservation and scientific processes used to restore the mummy.  Teachers must attend five of the meetings listed below.  

Contact Julie Green to register, jgree09@emory.edu or 404-727-2363
Fee:$25 Museum members, $35 non-members

Monday September 12 
7:30 pm, Reception Hall
Lecture
Peter Lacovara, Senior Curator of Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Easter Art and curator of the exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age, dicusses Life and Death in Late Old Kingdom Egypt.

Thursday, September 22 
7:30 pm, Reception Hall
A Conservation Conversation
Renee Stein, conservator at the Carlos Museum, and Mimi LeVeque, a conservator in private practice who has worked on mummies in collections around the world, discuss the documentation and treatment of the Emory Old Kingdom mummy.

Friday, September 30
5-7 pm, Reception Hall
Evening for Educators
K-12 teachers, curriculum coordinators, and principals are invited to a special Evening for Educators in conjunction with the exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy. At 5:30 pm, curator Peter Lacovara will introduce educators to the major themes and works in the exhibition. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served, and educators will receive a 10% discount in the Museum Book Shop.

Thursday, October 13
5 pm, Tate Room
Workshop for Teachers
Dr. Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory, will discuss funerary art and its role in protecting the mummy on its journey into the afterlife in this workshop for K-12 teachers.

Thursday, October 20
7:30 pm, Reception Hall
Lecture
The Old Kingdom saw the first great flowering of ancient Egyptian art. In a lecture titled  Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom,  Dr. Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History at Emory, will explore the many achievements of Egyptian artists during the period and explain the functions of the monuments commissioned by the king and his elite officials that led to the development of this unique visual culture.

Thursday, October 27
5 pm, Tate Room
Workshop for Teachers
In a workshop titled Sacred Carving of the Ancient Egyptians, Michele Marlar, Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Program at Morehouse College, will lead teachers on an exploration of the history and development of Egyptian hieroglyphs and some of the major texts that preserve the ancient Egyptian belief system. Dr. Marlar will look at hieroglyphic writing in the Museum’s Egyptian Galleries and in the exhibition Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy.

Thursday, November 17
7:30 pm, Reception Hall
Lecture
Location, location, location. In ancient Egypt, the “where” of your tomb was just as important as the “what” — its decoration and contents — especially for wealthy and politically prominent people. In a lecture titled  Ancient Celebrities, Eternal Real Estate: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy and excavations at Abydos, Egypt,  Dr. Janet Richards, Director of the University of Michigan excavations in the Abydos Middle Cemetery, sheds new light not only on the character of the exclusive burial enclave that was home to Emory’s Old Kingdom mummy, but also on the lives and afterlives of his famous neighbors, and the very nature of ancient celebrity.