#class visit

We wish we could keep this stuff out all the time!

#WhodunitWednesday

We sometimes fail to give our printed tracts and sermons their due. This fall we had a class studying the history of evangelicalism in America come to visit, and they looked at more than twenty pamphlets concerning religion, slavery, and the Civil War! A handful of the more colorful examples are pictured above.

School field trip season has begun! We had five classes of second graders in the museum today.

On Friday my class visited the Copper House Gallery and Inspiration Arts in order to discuss and look at different types of printing and framing. We also had a Photoshop workshop with Mark Paisley, the Head of Fine Art Printing and Publishing at the Copper House Gallery which was very informative. I’d never been to the Copper House Gallery before and knew very little about it, but from this trip, I’ve mentally chosen it to be my go-to place for printing work and framing; I loved the building and the staff were really nice and accommodating and their displayed work is fantastic. Their prices are expensive so for the major project exhibition I may get one or two pieces printed and framed by them but there’s no way I could afford to get a whole series printed and framed by them.    

Yesterday we had a class visit from HDS 2137, The Fragmentation and Future of Protestantism. On display were 16th and 17th century items related to Luther and other reformers. We set up several stations of materials where students examined and discussed the materials. Popular items included an Index of Prohibited Books, an Old Testament volume that may (or may not) have belonged to Philip Melanchthon, and a facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible.