PAT GUTHRIE SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS TEACHING GALLERY
Spring Semester
January 26 - May 15, 2021
Pat Guthrie Special Exhibitions Teaching Gallery
About the Teaching Gallery
The Pat Guthrie Special Exhibitions Teaching Gallery presents three installations,
each specific to a course taught during the Spring 2021 semester at the University
of Wyoming. Faculty from a range of academic disciplines select artwork from our permanent
collection to support the content and learning goals of their respective classes.
This method of object-based teaching and learning with artwork invites inquiry, curiosity,
and creative thinking into the students’ educational experience. These skills are
tools to prepare our future workforce and leaders, no matter their path, and help
enliven the cultural experience in Wyoming.
This semester, we welcome students and faculty from the following courses into the museum:
CLAS/HIST/POLS 3050: Athenian Democracy
Dr. Laura De Lozier, Classics Section Coordinator
Department of Modern & Classical Languages
This course examines the period of radical democracy (508/507-322 BCE) at Athens. Students read primary sources in translation, including Aristophanes’ comedy The Wasps (422 BCE), which tells the story of a father locked up in his son’s house as a safety measure. The play questions what roles senior members of society want, should, and can still have in a participatory democracy. Artwork selected will prompt further dialogue throughout the course about the roles of older people in the American experiment in democracy.
Image: Marilyn Bowles (American, b. 1928), The Park Bench Debate, 1984, oil paint on canvas, 5-1/8 x 6-15/16 inches, Friends of the UW Art Museum Purchase, 1984.124
EDEL 3170: Art in the Elementary School
Jennifer Smith, Master Teacher
UW Art Museum
This course provides a foundation for understanding art to facilitate the teaching of art and the integration of art education into the elementary school curriculum. Attention is given to the development of artistic skills and constructing meaningful art experiences by using art objects in lesson plans and teaching.
Image: Oronzo Gasparo, (American, 1903-1969), Cubistic Still Life #1, 1932, Tempera paint on paper, 20-1/2 x 14 inches, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Millman and the Gasparo Estate, 1973.245
HIST 4412/ENR 5412: Global Environmental History
Dr. Melissa Morris, Assistant Professor
Department of History
This course explores the history of the world through the lens of environmental history. Learning how people responded to environmental crises in the past offers ideas for our own times. Understanding humans’ relationships to the environment and the costs of their decisions upon it is more important than ever.
Image: Sue Pearson, (New Zealander-Norfolk Islander, b.1967), Feed the Baby, from Indigenous Mapping: Collecting Truths Portfolio, 2017, Intaglio and relief on paper, 8 x 20 inches, gift of Melanie Yazzie, 2018.4.8
Funded in part by the Pat Guthrie Special Exhibitions Teaching Gallery Endowment.
