Gallery Presentations Feedback

11/4/11

• Great team work and collaboration, a hallmark of school programs• Good inquiry techniques involved your audience• Good follow up questions, e.g.: what do you see that makes you

say that? Shows you are listening, validates the speaker, deepens the discussion

• Good paraphrasing: “So you’re saying that …”• Good use of call and response• Good tableaux!

GREAT WORK TEAMS!

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• Stories must be really brief—just the basic information• Not a good idea to refer to outside information e.g. a book that you

think is popular with young people (what if your group hasn’t read it?)

• Not a good idea to talk about another artwork that is not the one they are looking at

• Remember: we are training you for school programs, so practice your gallery sessions with that audience as a focus unless we say otherwise

• All in all excellent gallery presentations!

THOUGHTS FOR NEXT TIME

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Review

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The View from Galleries 2, 3 & 4

Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism

600-1600

Eastern, Central/Western, and Southern India

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Who is it? Subject/iconographyWhat is it made of? Material/

techniquesWhere was it originally? OriginWhen? Historical context, date

Why significant? Any of the above

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After Austerities, Meditation

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First Sermon4 Noble TruthsLife is suffering

The suffering has a cause

The cause is attachment

Break attachment by following

the 8-fold Path

Wheel of the Law (8-fold Path)Right views

Right aspirations

Right speech

Right conduct

Right livelihood

Right effort

Right mindfulness

Right contemplation

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Miracles• Birth

• Victory over Mara, Bodh Gaya (upper left)

• First Sermon, Deer Park Sarnath

• Shravasti miracles: mango tree, multiple Buddhas

• Descent from Indra's heaven after having preached to his deceased mother (lower left)

• Monkey's offering (upper right)

• Taming of the enraged elephant (lower right)

• Parinirvana

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Who/What?When?What religion?Where from?Material?

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14• First Sermon, 475CE, Central India, Sarnath, Chunar sandstone

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Vishnu

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Shiva, Shiva Everywhere

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Insert Shiva Nataraja here, please!

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