We live in a visual, tech-oriented world, where students must decipher images, information, and technology in order to navigate our twenty-first century. How can museums capitalize on technology’s growing accessibility to foster visual and media literacy skills? Learn about the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art + Film Institute for K-12 teachers from an educator, a filmmaker, and a teacher participant. Explore interdisciplinary connections between art, media, and the Common Core California State Standards. Moderator: Veronica Alvarez, Director of School and Teacher Programs, Education & Public Programs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Presenters: Brick Maier, Founder, Tabletop Moviemaking Fernando Galvez, 5th Grade Teacher, Kingsley Elementary

1. LACMA’S ART + FILM INITIATIVE:
FOSTERING VISUAL AND MEDIA
LITERACY IN K–12 SCHOOLS
WMA
October 8, 2014

2. LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

3. ART + FILM INITIATIVE

4. HAUNTED SCREENS: GERMAN CINEMA IN
THE 1920S

6. ART + FILM: SCHOOLS & MUSEUMS
• Why?
• Who?
• What?
• How? Some
suggestions
Image: Installation view of exhibition entrance Tim Burton,
May 29–October 31, 2011
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Photo © 2011 Museum Associates/LACMA

7. Why Film?
Movies tell stories/art tells stories
• Storytelling is one of the most effective
ways to communicate
• Stories ignite the imagination
• Stories engage multiple learning styles
• Multidisciplinary
Project based learning
• Acknowledge each other’s contributions
• Different roles/expertise are recognized
• Collaborate to:
 Solve authentic problems
 Gather information
 Analyze
 Synthesize
 Present on knowledge acquired
Folding Screen with Indian Wedding and Flying Pole (Biombo con
desposorio indígena y palo volador)
Mexico, circa 1690
Furnishings; Furniture
Oil on canvas
Overall: 66 x 120 in. (167.64 x 304.8 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of
Mexican Art Deaccession Fund (M.2005.54)
Latin American Art

8. Classroom Connections!
Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio
David Hockney (England, Bradford, active United States, born 1937)
England, 1980Paintings
Acrylic on canvas
86 x 243 in. (218.44 x 617.22 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the F. Patrick Burns Bequest (M.83.35)
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Listening and Speaking
Comprehension and Collaboration
2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually,
quantitatively, and orally.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance
understanding of presentations.
6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command
of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
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12. Technology-Integrated
Storytelling

13. Three critical questions
for today
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14. What is the Tabletop
Moviemaking method?
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15. Why use an analog tactile
media with new "
digital media technology?
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16. How can the method be adapted to "
dovetail with curriculum?
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17. What is Tabletop
Moviemaking?
• Radically simplifies the moviemaking production
process by shrinking everything to fit on a table.
• When characters fit in our hand and backgrounds fit
on the table, the moviemaking process is shrinks
from months to hours.
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19. Where did Tabletop
Moviemaking come from?
• Borrows heavily from a past time popular
in the Victorian era known as Paper
Theater or Juvenile Drama
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24. Creative Precedent
• Famous storytellers who played with toy
theaters first!
• Jane Austen, Salvador Dali, Orson Wells,
W.B. Yeats
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25. THEN AND NOW IT’S ALL ABOUT STORY

26. reflections/things to consider
• How does your museum use technology?
• What audience(s) are best addressed through technology?
• Is there anything you saw in this presentation the reminds
you of similar projects you would like to share?

27. CONTACT INFO:
Veronica alvarez
Director of school & teacher programs
valvarez@lacma.org
323.857.6031
Brick Maier
Founder
www.tabletopmedia.org
brickm@tabletopmedia.org
323.578.9250