Junior Docent School Program

Junior Docent School Program
Grades 3 – 5

The Museum’s Junior Docent School Program provides students an opportunity to learn about the visual arts, apply their knowledge to a specific work of art, and present their knowledge to family, friends, and peers. Students in participating schools visit the Museum three times a year, over a three-year period, building a visual arts vocabulary, developing communication and critical thinking skills, and learning about the cultural history of visual art using the Museum’s Collection. Trained docents lead each thematic visit, actively and creatively engage students in the specific theme of the tour.

During the third year of the multiple-visit program, each student chooses and studies an individual work of art from the Museum’s Collection. The work of art is studied in-depth and presented with an aesthetic response to a group of family and peers during graduation.

Year 1 (grade 3): Understanding Art
Exploring Art Through the Senses
Elements of Art
Principles of Art

Year 2 (grade 4): People, Culture, and History
Portraiture
Wisconsin History
World Communities

Year 3 (grade 5): Art History and American History
Antiquities to Abstract Expressionism
American History Through Art
Selection of Art Work and Sketching
Graduation

For more information about how your school can begin participating in this program, contact the school and teacher programs manager at 414-224-3827 | jane.nicholson@mam.org.