Intro to the Photographic Portrait: Preschool Level
On Friday I took Oliver to the Jepson (our local modern art museum) for their monthly art education class for toddlers. The theme this week was Portraiture, and they introduced the concept by taking the kids to see their new exhibit of Ellen Susan’s work, and then showing them some big posters of famous works and having them call out “portrait” or “not portrait”.
I love the Jepson’s art ed classes for little ones, because they always include a visit to the galleries and the introduction of a new concept. There’s an art project too, and a fully stocked art room, so it’s lots of fun. And it’s important for me to be reminded that Oliver, even at 3.5, can learn some of the basics and not just do arts and crafts. He already likes to use our family snapshooter (Canon G9, currently disabled by beach sand) to take photos of Greg and I, and he loves using the Mac’s PhotoBooth to take photo and video of himself – it seems a small leap from there to introduce the concept, and I will try to remember to do it.
