Intersections: Educational Resources [Fowler Museum at UCLA]


	For our long-term exhibition of highlights from the Fowler’s permanent collections we implemented a variety of educational programs. Read about our offerings in the Intersections gallery to visitors of different ages and backgrounds; find our Curriculum Resource Unit, which was developed to assist teachers of K-12 classes in the preparation of a visit; and explore an extensive reading list about the topics of this exhibition. Resources in the Gallery Curriculum Resource Unit Bibliography To find further information about the Museum’s educational programs related all current exhibitions, visit the pages of the Education Department.
	On a visit to Intersections you can choose between a variety of accompanying educational materials, which were developed with the needs of different audiences in mind. ArtVenture: Puzzle and Play Launch your family on an ArtVenture during your next visit to the Fowler Museum. Beginning in Fall 2007, a tote bag full of puzzles will be available to help families play their way through Intersections! Ask for ArtVentures: Puzzle and Play at the information desk in the Museum’s lobby. — Available in Summer 2008. Family Guide Designed to guide our younger visitors’ experience of Intersections, our permanent collections gallery, this brochure for 5 – 12 year olds will enhance their visit with stories of peoples from around the world, matching games, and sketching activities. — Download here (pdf. 5.8 MB) Audio Guide Intersections has an Audio Guide which is FREE to the public. If you have only limited time for your visit and want to make most of it, take our 30-minute Audio Tour, where the curators explain the most important aspects of this exhibition and introduce you to many voices from the cultures represented in the galleries. Additionally you can listen to more in-depth Highlight Stops at selected works of art. Interactive Video Stations Throughout the gallery you find interactive kiosk stations with videos about artists, cultural traditions, and performances. Find more information about the videos in this list: Video: Sisilia Sii, Weaver – Flores, Indonesia This video focuses on Cecilia Sii, a skillful weaver woman on the Indonesian island of Flores and her daughter, Grasiana Wani, who has followed into the weaving tradition of her family. The narration describes the role of the artist in creating the textiles, introduces the main steps in textile production, and depicts Cecilia Sii telling her story about becoming a weaver and learning different patterns. Video: Felix Lopez, Santos Maker– New Mexico, U.S.A. This video features the outstanding santero (santos carver) Felix Lopez, who lives and works in Espanola near Santa Fe, New Mexico. This video focuses on how Lopez became a carver, his artistic and aesthetic considerations while creating a santos figure, and what it means to be a creator of devotional objects. Video: Magdalene Odundo, Ceramic Artist – Surrey, England This video portrait of Magdalene Odundo, a ceramic artist who was born in Kenya and received her formal education in the U.K., is based on an interview conducted by Marla Berns. Here the artist is talking about her feelings while creating a piece, her considerations which led her to use her specific technique of hand coiling, and her way she journeys through each step in the creation of a piece. Video: Histories in Clay – North Coast, Peru Featuring important discoveries about the Sacrifice Ceremonies in the ancient civilization of the Moche, this video is narrated by on of the major archeologists who have worked there, Christopher B. Donnan. It shows the role that the iconography on the ancient ceramic vessels has played in leading archeologists to critical discoveries about a civilization that left no written record. Video: Teachings from the Spirit World – Arizona, U.S.A. Exploring the spiritual education of Hopi children in Arizona, this video discusses how tihus (katsina dolls) are used to teach the next generation about the spirit world. For this video, we obtained the rights to use excerpts of the film entitled “Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World” from the producer/director Pat Ferrero. This footage is intercut with scenes from a recent interview with Emory Sekaquaptewa, a spokesperson for the Hopi, who speaks about the importance of dances and songs related to katsinas spirits. Video: House of Ancestoral Stories – East Sepik, Papua New Guinea This video shows scenes of the final preparations and the opening ceremonies for a clan house named Assaur in Tongwajamb village of the East Sepik area of Papua New Guinea. In an interview, the leading patriarch of the clan talks about the transmission of intellectual heritage to a younger generation of men. Video: Pageantry in the Palace – Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon Usmanou Nsangou, a native Cameroonian from the Bamum Kingdom now living in Boston, shares his personal encounters with the Bamum king and the life at the royal court in the kingdom’s capital Foumban. He tells us about the vibrant annual ngoun celebrations and remembers the deep impressions some masks used in these gatherings left in him. Video: Potlatch: Displaying Status, Giving Gifts – British Columbia, Canada This video explores how potlatch celebrations among the native population of the Northwest Coast confer status and prestige. It explains the meaning of masks in Kwakwaka’wakw society in performing ritual songs and dances. A combination of original voices of contemporary Kwakwaka’wakw members with excerpts of footage from the existing video productions of the U’mista Cultural Center in Alert Bay, British Columbia shows the context of potlatch ceremonies and performances. Video: The Spirit of the Barong – Bali, Indonesia This video explains Barong ceremonies in Bali and shows a village in preparation of the events. Footage of processions and the Barong mask in performance is intercut with first-person accounts by dancers of the Barong, who share their experience with Barong spirits while performing with the mask.
	Curriculum Resource Units are in-depth courses of study that feature interdisciplinary lessons, learning objectives, and background information. Lessons closely correlate with the National Standards for History and with the California State Frameworks for History and Social Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts, and Language Arts. The Curriculum Resource Units can be used both as preparation for a class visit to the Museum and as sustained resources for teachers in ongoing curricular planning. Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives. — Available in Summer 2008 Curriculum Resource Units are also available for other exhibitions at the Fowler Museum. Visit the Education Department. to find out more.
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