Week One
Introduction: Salem And Visual Culture
Sunday, June 27
5:00 p.m.
- Welcome Reception and Orientation to Salem and Salem State College Central Campus Dormitory Lounge
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- A Salem Trolley Tour of Local Historic Sites
Monday, June 28
9:00 a.m.
- Roundtable Panel: Standards and Frameworks in the
Disciplines of History, English, and Art
(Nicholas Aieta, Maureen Creegan-Quinquis, Lucinda
10:15 a.m.
- Break and Welcome from the College Provost
10:45a.m.
- Roundtable Panel: Teaching with Visual Resources
in the Disciplines of History, English, and Art
(Nicholas Aieta, Maureen Creegan-Quinquis, Lucinda Damon-Bach)
12:00 p.m.
- Lunch
12:30 p.m.
- Walk to Pioneer Village, tour museum grounds
(John Goff, Salem Preservation)
2:15 p.m.
- Break
2:30 p.m.
- Interpreting Visual and Material Culture
(Patricia Johnston)
3:00 p.m.
- Sample Unit Plans
(Steve Schmidt, Master Teacher)
3:30 p.m.
- Clipper Cards and Wireless Internet set up
(Pamela Poppe, SSC IT Staff)
4:30 p.m.
- Trip to local stores/grocery shops
7:00 p.m.
- Film: Witch City
Unit One:
Portraits
Tuesday, June 29
9:00 a.m.
- 17th Century Portraits: Ministers and Merchants
(Patricia Johnston)
10:15 a.m.
- Break
10:45 a.m.
- Puritan Aesthetics: Paintings and Gravestones
(Patricia Johnston)
11:30 a.m.
- Thomas Smith's Self-portrait
(Patricia Johnston)
12:00 p.m.
- Lunch
12:45 p.m.
- Props and Performance: Reading History through Artifacts
(Jessica Lanier)
Spotlight:
- Paul Revere, Jr., Teapot, 1796
Thomas William Brown, Tea service, c. 1840-1850
Jean Theobald, Diament Teapot, 1928. Wilcox Silver Plate Co
2:15 p.m.
- Break
2:30 p.m.
- Navigating Primary Sources
(Liz Duclos-Orsello)
4:00 p.m.
- SSC Library Orientation
(Zach Newell)
Wednesday, June 30
9:00 a.m.
- Family Life in 18th Century Portraits
(Patricia Johnston)
10:15 a.m.
- Break
10:45 a.m.
- Copley's New England Portraits: Group Discussion
(Patricia Johnston)
12:00 p.m.
- Lunch and Travel to Downtown Salem
1:00 p.m.
- Field trip: Peabody Essex Museum
American Decorative Arts and Painting Galleries
1:45 p.m.
- Teaching with Objects
(Rebecca Hayes, PEM Education Dept.)
3:00 p.m.
- Tour the Derby House/Salem Maritime
(Emily Murphy, Historian, National Park Service)
4:30 p.m.
- Break and Dinner
6:30 p.m.
- Sail on the Schooner Fame
9:00 p.m.
- Return to Salem State College
Thursday, July 1
7:45 a.m.
- Leave Salem: Travel by bus to Worcester, MA.
9:30 a.m.
- Field Trip: American Antiquarian Society
The Art of the Print: Portraits, History and Landscape
(Georgia Barnhill, Curator)
AAS Ceramic Collection: American Landscapes on English Pottery
11:30 a.m.
- Lunch at WPI Campus and Travel
1:00 p.m.
- Field Trip: Worcester Art Museum
Teacher Workshop: Using your Local Museum
3:00 p.m.
- Return Bus to Salem State College
4:30 p.m.
- Arrive Salem
Friday, July 2
9:00 a.m.
- Portraiture in the Federal Period
(Ellen Miles, Curator, National Portrait Gallery)
10:15 a.m.
- Break
10:45 a.m.
- Representing Indians: Saint-Mémin
(Ellen Miles)
12:00 p.m.
- Lunch
1:00 p.m.
- Film: Picturing the Presidents
Spotlight:
- Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Lansdowne portrait)
(Ellen Miles)
2:15 p.m.
- Break
2:30 p.m.
- Portraiture: Picturing the Self as a Learning Experience
Drawing Studio, Sullivan Building, North Campus
(Maureen Creegan-Quinquis)
4:30 p.m.
- Social Hour
