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Grade 2 Explores Shape as Metaphor Through Guidance from the Jewish Museum

In what has become an annual tradition, the Jewish Museum has partnered with the Art Department to integrate museum workshops into Grade 2 lessons. Gabriella Kula (HS '06), museum educator for The Jewish Museum, has been visiting Grade 2 art classes to teach students how shape can act as metaphor and how artists have used triptychs over time to portray different sides to a story. The workshop is based on the children's visit to the museum to see the exhibit "Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922."