October 31, 1932
From October 31 to November 27 the Brooklyn Museum will have on exhibition in a fourth floor gallery work done in art appreciation courses in 37 high schools in greater New York. This exhibition has been organized under the auspices of Dr. Forest Grant, Director of Art, Board of Education, to study methods and problems in the teaching of art appreciation throughout the city, and to discover how the syllabus on art appreciation was interpreted. All the work shown was done in the regular class work in art appreciation courses, which are unique in New York City public schools in being required of every pupil.
During the course of the exhibition there will be 9 conferences hold in the gallery where the work is on display. They are as follows:
November 7
Leon Friend
Head of Art Dept. Abraham Lincoln High School
“Creating Interest in Art Appreciation of Typography and Fine Printing among the 1st and 2nd year pupils of the High Schools”
November 9
Mrs. Mabel Brady
Instructor of Art, Haaren High School
“Creating Interest in Art Appreciation of Typography and Fine Printing among the 1st and 2nd year pupils of the High Schools”
November 10
Miss Elizabeth Prinzing
Instructor of Art, Richmond Hill High School
“Architectural Models as a Help in Art Appreciation”
November 14
Miss Bernice Smith
Instructor of Art, Washington Irving High School
“Arcusing Interest in Color through a new Approach”
November 15
Harry Lewis assisted by Leonard Banach, for the major art classes of DeWitt Clinton High School will demonstrate “Smooch” under the supervision of Mr. George C. K. Gomarts, Head of Art Department, LeWitt Clinton.
November 16
Miss Edna Black
Instructor in Art Washington Irving High School
“Creating Interest in Art in the Home”
November 17
Mr. Max Wilkas
Head of Art Dept. James Monroe High School
“The School—An Art Museum”
November 21
Miss Virginia Murphy
Head of Art Dept. Erasmus Hall High School
“Using the Theatre Arts in Education”
November 22
Miss Rosalie MacDonald “Creative Work”
Head of Art Department
Theodore Roosevelt High School
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1931 - 1936. 07-12_1932, 059. View Original
