Contact Information and Resources
If you have any questions about the Waterford Street School art program, you may reach art teacher Ruth Suyenaga by sending a note to school, by email at SuyenaR@GardnerK12.org or by calling WSS at 1-978-632-1605 x 5129.
Area art classes for children during the school year and school vacations:
* Worcester Art Museum - http://www.worcesterart.org/
* Fitchburg Art Museum - http://www.fitchburgartmuseum.org/
* Mount Wachusett Community College Summer Art Camp - http://www.mwcc.mass.edu/
* Village School Summer Arts Intensive - http://www.villageschool.to/
Local and regional museums of interest to children:
* Gardner Museum - http://www.thegardnermuseum.com/
* Eric Carle Museum - http://www.picturebookart.org/
* Fitchburg Art Museum - see above
* Worcester Art Museum - see above
* Higgins Armory - http://www.higgins.org/
* Mariposa Museum - http://www.mariposamuseum.org/
* DeCordova Museum - http://www.decordova.org/
* Mass MOCA - http://www.massmoca.org/
Child-friendly museum websites with activities:
I
have recently found two excellent child-friendly museum websites. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art website (www.metmuseum.org)
has a link to Explore and Learn, then another link to Just for Fun,
which has many activities and games related to works of art in the museum. The
website for the Art Institute of Chicago has a link to Education, then to
Online Learning, then to Art Access (http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/),
which features activities such as a “shadowbox bedroom” that a child could
make from a shoebox, based on Van Gogh’s painting of his bedroom. (I would
advise that parents always sit with a young child when they are navigating the
Web).