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Writing in the Museum: Myths, Images, and Language at the Palm Springs Desert Museum
By: Martha Plender
Publication:
The Voice, Vol. 5, No. 3
Date: May-June 2000
Summary: Plender recounts how the teachers at her site partnered with a local museum to use its rich resources to inspire student work and then feature that work in an exhibit.
Excerpt
And the students are exuberant. Each tour group bursts into the museum, happy to be released from the confinement of the bus. The students receive a clipboard and pen, then gradually, magically, they become quiet. Suddenly, they laugh at the Duane Hansen couple sitting sedately on a bench as they realize "it's not real"... When they are given the chance to write, their heads settle down, and then—when they share—it's extraordinary.
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