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by Andrew Henley, Educational Curator
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
Have you ever run somewhere?
Did you ever win at a sport?
What does it feel like to have fun running, jumping, or climbing?
If you can move, you can be an athlete! Currently on view at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art are many photographs of athletes. Some of the photographs are from 100 years ago, and the athletes are from countries around the world. Other photographs are of our Auburn Tigers!
At recess this week, take a look around. What are your classmates playing? Can you draw them fast enough to include a lot of details? What do they look like when they move?
Try this: with a pencil and paper, try to record the movements of a friend playing a game, or running. Switch places, and have your friend try to draw you. What are some challenges to drawing people in motion? How does using a camera solve some problems?
Organizing photographs can be fun. Spend a couple of days finding newspaper photographs from the sports section. When you have a stack of images, think about how you could arrange them. Should you put them in the order you found them in? What about by sport? Or maybe you could sort them by team, or by the colors in the image. There are many different options!
You can make believe that you are a writer for the paper. What sort of story would you include about the image? Some images are so amazing, that they are the subject of the story. Other images are focused on the people shown. In your article, try to imagine a story about the photograph, and the sporting event.
Take a look at this image from the exhibition. What is interesting about the photograph? What is happening in the image? Who is in the photograph? Where does the event take place? What clues tell you what is happening? Why do you think someone thought this was important enough to take a picture of it? Ask an older family member if they know about the event in the photograph. When you find someone who remembers what happened, ask them to tell you what happened, and why it was important.
PHOTO CREDIT
Ken Geiger
Women’s 4x100-Meter Relay Team, Barcelona Olympics, 1992
Dallas Morning News
Come by the museum and share your drawings, stories, and selection of photographs with the K-12 Educator, Andrew Henley, and receive a gold medal for all your hard work!
Mention The Cub Reporter, and you and your family can get in free!
See you at JCSM!
Visions of Victory is open through November 29
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art,
901 South College, Auburn, AL
Monday-Friday, 8:30am – 4:45pm
Saturday 10am-4:45pm
334.844.1484
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By Heather Vogel Frederick
Book Review
by Elizabeth McEldowney, age 12
The Mother-Daughter Book Club is a terrific read for girls ages 10 to 13. It is about four very different girls and their roller coaster ride 6th grade year. These four girls (Emma, Megan, Cassidy, and Jess) form an unlikely friendship when their mothers decide they want to spend more “quality time” with their daughters by forming a mother-daughter book club. The setting is in beautiful Concord, Connecticut which happens to be the birth place of Louisa May Alcott, the author Little Women.
When you combine Emma, the fashion sense deprived bookworm, tomboyish hockey-loving Cassidy, shy Jess, and snobbish Megan you’re sure to end up with somewhat disastrous results. To top it off, Jess’s mother is currently in New York City acting in a soap opera. Will she ever come home? Then Cassidy, who’s ex supermodel mother won’t let her join the hockey team, which is the only thing that’s kept her going, after her dad’s fatal car accident. Will
Emma ever stand up to Becca
Chadwick the queen of mean? What about Megan? Will she finally tell her mom that she has no intention of going to an Ivy League school, but she actually wants to become a fashion designer?
From stolen diaries, food fights, family issues, mean girls, and first dance nightmares the girls are drowning in drama. The question is will the girls ever truly be friends? You’ll have to read this gripping page turner to find out!
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