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Allyssa Roggow with the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild education program talks to Lincoln first graders Sept. 15 about their observations at "the Witch House," the name most of the kids gave Patrick Dougherty's "Tree Circus" due to the spires that resemble witches' hats to them. The kids noticed the amount of work that went into weaving the willows together and that the openings created places for animals to live.
A pair of Lincoln 2nd graders react to seeing their reflection in the base of Alan Counihan's 'House of Sky during their visit to the park for the education program. Sept. 15.
Allyssa Roggow leads first graders around Steven Segal's "Hill and Valley."
llyssa Roggow leads second graders past "Picture Frame."
"This is my first time doing this," Said Allyssa Roggow, who was leading Lincoln grade-schoolers to various sculptures as part of the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild education program . "I'm a musician based in Great Falls, but I've done some things with visual thinking strategies, which is a way of engaging with art that was developed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City."
Roggow said visual thinking strategies is learner centered. Kids take a minute to look at the art and she asks them questions that help them notice what's going on in an artwork and they have to support their opinion. For example, she questioned them about why Dougherty's "Tree Circus" made them decide it was a Witch House.
She said working with the Lincoln grade school students has been great. "They're very familiar with the park, which is wonderful," she said. "Even at this young age, they have a relationship with the work already, they notice the changes over time."
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