School Field Trips
School Field Trips to the Armory
What Happens During a New Visions Field Trip? After your class arrives at the Armory, they are led by Armory artists on a tour of the exhibition in our galleries. Students are guided through small group activities, art exercises and discussions relating to themes and concepts presented in the exhibition. Then, students enter our studio where Armory artists guide them through a hands-on art-making project. Working in the medium selected by their teacher (clay, painting, sculpture, printmaking or bookmaking), this standards-based experience allows students to explore the artistic process and create their own work of art. Bring bagged lunches to enjoy in Pasadena’s Memorial Park, it’s right across the street!
• Download the 2011/2012 New Visions Field Trip Brochure (.pdf)
Planning A School Field Trip
After reviewing the New Visions Field Trip Brochure, teachers can select an exhibition or a date that best suits their needs. Prior to their class visit, each teacher will receive an education packet complete with images, discussions, and activities to prepare their students for the field trip.
To schedule a field trip, please contact the Armory’s Field Trip Coordinator at 626.792.5101 x110 or email Tricia Garcia, [email protected].
2011/2012 Armory Field Trip Exhibitions
Jason Lazarus: Gone
Field Trip Dates: October 4, 2011 – January 20, 2012 (Tuesdays-Fridays, 9:30-11:30 AM)
Jason Lazarus’ work addresses ways that “memory” and “memorial” are communicated through the photographic image. Lazarus created a series of color photograms using a portion of the cremated remains of the late conceptual photographer Robert Heinecken. The works appear as constellations or color-field abstractions. Other works in the exhibit include portraiture and images featuring photograms of snapshots posted on Flickr by US soldiers of their tours of duty in Iraq. In the Pasadena Art Alliance Gallery
Curt Lemieux: Their Ways
Field Trip Dates: October 4, 2011 – January 20, 2012 (Tuesdays-Fridays, 9:30-11:30 AM)
Installation artist, sculptor and painter Lemieux creates a new series of work referencing the collision of cultures between birds and humans. Lemieux reflects on the BP oil spill and the broader ecological degradation that has unfolded over the course of his lifetime. In the Mezzanine Gallery
Katie Grinnan: Attempts to stand on shifting currents
Field Trip Dates: October 4, 2011 – January 20, 2012 (Tuesdays-Fridays, 9:30-11:30 AM)
This exhibition features older sculptures and new photograms that reference and re-create actual spaces in the world, depicting the fractured way we see and interpret events and places. Thematically, her work explores the paradoxical relationship between the permanence of the frozen, photographic moment and the entropy that occurs over time in both the physical and photographic world. In the Mezzanine Gallery
Artist Curated Projects: My head is falling out so I'm standing on my stomach
Field Trip Dates: October 8, 2011 – January 20, 2012 (Tuesdays-Fridays, 9:30-11:30 AM)
View and purchase works from the flat files of Artist Curated Projects (ACP) selected by founders Eve Fowler and Lucas Michael. An apartment-based gallery in Los Angeles that focuses on underrepresented artists and ephemeral programs, ACP emerged from the desire to show art despite the economic recession. Since 2008, it has organized exhibitions that have contributed to the cultural fabric of Los Angeles while providing an opportunity to over 120 artists to show their work to the community, engage in dialogue, and explore their curatorial ideas. In the Community Room Gallery
Richard Jackson: Accidents in Abstract Painting
Field Trip Dates: February 14 – June 8, 2012 (Tuesdays-Fridays, 9:30-11:30 AM)
The Armory becomes a site for an interactive installation. Richard Jackson will conceptually return the Armory Center for the Arts back to its origin as a California National Guard Armory. By creating a series of pieces in the form of colorful toy guns and cannons that playfully spurt and shoot paint onto the gallery walls, the artist takes “Action Painting” to another level. In the Caldwell Gallery