Youth
SCHOOL PROGRAMMING K-12 - Planning a program for your needs.
One Hour Classroom Projects - The Museum offers several one hour projects tailored for the classroom fostering creativity, ingenuity, and a lifelong love of the arts.
Multi-Week Digital Art Projects - The Museum offers five (5) to eight (8) week Digital Art Education Projects, integrating art and digital technology with specific age appropriate programs.
One Hour Classroom Projects
Pinch Pots
Ohr emphasized “No Two Alike”. Creating Pinch Pots using clay is a wonderful way for your students to express their individuality and creativeness with a forgiving medium. Museum staff discuss the life and times of local potter George E. Ohr and assist children in creating their own pot which can then be painted. Click here to request pinch pot outreach as Microsoft Word Document or PDF
Vases
With assistance from museum staff, students will decorate 6" vases as an individual project.
Click here to request tile project outreach as Microsoft Word Document or PDF
The Architecture of Frank Gehry
Museum staff will lead a class discussion on the architecture of our new campus.
Students will then use simple materials and their imagination to design their own museum using paper sculpture techniques. Click here to request the Frank Gehry architecture project outreach as Microsoft Word Document or PDF
Multi-Week Digital Art Projects
Born into slavery in 1854, Mississippi native Pleasant Reed embraced freedom following the Civil War and left an extraordinary legacy of perseverance, determination, and talent in spite of dauntingly adverse circumstances. Reed and his family made their post-war home in Biloxi where their heritage has become an integral part of the history of America and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Digital Education Project integrates the Pleasant Reed story and digital technology to enrich the students’ understanding of regional history as well as to challenge them to explore the synthesis of art and technology in interdisciplinary digital projects.
Click here for project details
Please contact our Education Department at
outreach@georgeohr.org or 228-374-5547.
