The Ann Simpson Artmobile Program The Ann Simpson Artmobile Program provides statewide outreach in the visual arts to audiences across the 97,914 square miles of Wyoming, visiting K-12 schools, state park visitor centers, libraries, senior centers, and other community-accessible locations in towns throughout the state. The program incorporates an exhibition of artwork from the University of Wyoming Art Museum's permanent collection and by Wyoming artists. Discussions of the exhibition are typically followed by hands-on art activities with the Ann Simpson Artmobile Curator. Call or email today to schedule the Artmobile in your community or school, please also read the Art Mobile Program Requirements and fill out and return the Venue Information Form. For more information and to schedule a visit, please contact Beth Wetzbarger, Artmobile Curator, at (307) 399-2941 or artmobile@uwyo.edu. Funding for the Ann Simpson Artmobile Program is provided by an anonymous donor, the Julienne Michel Foundation, the FMC Corporation, Helga and Erivan Haub, and Ann and Alan Simpson. The Ann Simpson Artmobile van is provided by FMC Corporation and the McMurry Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Wyoming Arts Council through the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts which believes a great nation deserves great art, and the Ann Simpson Artmobile Endowment. Scheduling forms Art Mobile Program Requirements Venue Information Form. Scroll down or click on the following for more information on the Artmobile Current Events Guide to Teacher Resources Schedule of Visits >Main Outreach Page

Current Events On June 3, 2009 we officially closed the two year exhibition, The View from Here: Art By Women Working in the Rocky Mountain West. We thank all the artists who contributed their work and all the people who came to share it. We are now looking toward our next exhibition, Where We Are Is Just the Beginning, a show drawn from the art museum's permanent collection of works on paper. Scheduling for this exhibition, which will be available from July 2009 through June 2011, has begun. This year's Summer Teacher Institute, Transforming Learning, will be held the week of July 26-31. The nonrefundable cost for the workshop is 50 dollars; teachers are eligible for 3 credits of PTSB certification credits or 3 university graduate credits (pending approval). Registration information can be obtained by contacting Wendy Bredehoft wbredeho@uwyo.edu. The 2009 Summer Teacher Institute is a concentrated weeklong workshop for teachers that will use original art work as the inspiration to find answers to questions like: How can art help us explore new places? Can art help us learn new things about those places most familiar to us? How do we use visual images to inspire students to discover more about their own communities? By knowing our neighborhood, can we know the world? Can artists' perspectives of the world help us better understand our own "place?" Observe, question, explore, create and reflect becomes the model for discovery as teachers become students. The new Ann Simpson Artmobile exhibition, Where We Are Is Just the Beginning will serve as resource and inspiration, as will the summer exhibits in the UW Art Museum, including the mixed media sculpture of Montana artist Tracy Linder, watercolor sketches, drawings and prints by Thomas Moran and selections from Adornment: Native American Regalia. I look forward to seeing you there or during the year. Image: Students at FE Warren Air Force Base's Youth Center contemplate sculptor
Guide to Teacher Resources Overview This new site provides teachers with resources that make a visit by the Ann Simpson Artmobile and its curator, Beth Wetzbarger, an engaging, productive and educational opportunity for everyone participating. Here you will find lesson plan ideas to implement before, during and after the Artmobile visit. These are arranged in three categories according to overall time required per lesson and, sometimes, complexity. You are also able to preview the artwork and artists included in this new exhibit, which is on the road from July, 2009 through June, 2011. For more information or to schedule an Artmobile visit to your community, contact Beth at 307.766.3496 or e-mail artmobile@uwyo.edu. Lesson Plan Categories Category 1: Short lesson plans. These lesson plans incorporate Artmobile activities into a short period of time. Any workshops conducted are approximately one school period in length, and based upon one central concept by the Artmobile exhibit. Example: Students tour the Artmobile Exhibition and, in the same class period, participate in a short watercolor or print workshop concluded in the same day or in two class periods. Category 2: Lesson plans that take a little longer then Category 1 and which will involve some pre-visit work by teachers and students before the Artmobile arrives. Or, conversely, lessons that require post-visit work by teachers and students after the Artmobile moves on. Example: Before the Artmobile arrives, students will engage in exploring concepts or areas of study that would be expanded upon by the Artmobile exhibition. Teachers might link in an English or Science component that would then be explored through art, such as the use of text and writing to convey ideas in Connie Norman's pottery. Category 3: These lessons are developed as long term by teachers who participated in the 2007 Summer Teachers Institute, Transforming Learning, and who developed curricular units to be implemented over a longer period of time. These lessons will usually involve a longer time period for the Artmobile to be present, up to one week. Example: Click on the Category 3 links to view sample units designed by Institute participants. You may need to upload Adobe Acrobat Reader. This is free software that will allow you to open, read, and print these documents. TO UPLOAD ADOBE ACROBAT READER, CLICK HERE. Image: Oronzo Gasparo (Italian/American, 1903-1969 Coal Silos Tempera 12 x 17-1/2 inches Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Millman University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection 1974.145
Schedule of Visits Ann Simpson Artmobile Schedule The following schedule is subject to change. 2009 October 2nd Ethete, Wyoming Indian School 5th-9th Cheyenne, Davis Elementary* 12th & 13th Rock River, Rock River High School* November 5th-6th Rawlins, Rawlins Boys and Girls Club 10th Cathedral Home for Children 16th -19th Casper, Manor Heights Elementary School 23rd and 24th Cheyenne, East High School December 6th -11th Gillette January 25th-29th Worland February 15th-19th Gillette* March No dates scheduled at this time April No dates scheduled at this time May No dates scheduled at this time June No dates scheduled at this time July No dates scheduled at this time *indicates tentative date To schedule a visit or for more information, call or e-mail Beth Wetzbarger, Artmobile Curator, at (307) 399-2941 or artmobile@uwyo.edu. Image: Students in Buffalo creating monotype prints
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