Integrating the Arts: Phase Two of a Multi-Year, Multilayer Pachyderm Project

Wednesday Luncheon Plenary Keynote for the 2007 NMC Pachyderm Conference

This presentation will demonstrate and discuss the second phase of a three-year, large-scale Pachyderm project called Integrating the Arts: Mummies, Manuscripts and Madonnas . This project, being produced for the Walters Art Museum by Sandbox Studios, is based on an interdisciplinary approach for K-12 teachers and students to a select number of ancient, medieval and Renaissance works of art in the Walter’s collection.

Kris has worked with teachers as an art museum educator for the past sixteen years, in the education department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and as Director of Education at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Wetterlund received her degree in art education from the University of Minnesota and is certified as a K-12 Minnesota teacher. She has served as team leader in the St. Paul Public Schools’ writing of elementary art curriculum. She also served for ten years as museum education representative on the governing board of Art Educators of Minnesota, the state’s professional organization for art teachers. Online art educational resources authored by Wetterlund include the award-winning Get the Picture: Thinking about Photographs. Recently Wetterlund designed and implemented a two-year program to train K-12 teachers throughout Minnesota to use online art museum resources and technology in their classrooms. Wetterlund has also provided services for users of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), advising educators who implement AMICO digital art resources in curriculum and teaching. She has also developed a national plan for delivering the Mellon Foundation’s ARTstor project to K-12 teachers and students as a classroom resource.