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Fine Arts Summer Sketch Assignments 2011

• Sketch three pieces from the show below in your new sketchbook.
• Call or email for exact hours and fees for adults. You must be with an adult at these shows.
• Use pencil or colored pencil. (Most museums don't like to see you sketching with an ink pen or markers, but you can ask.)
• Sketches and sketchbook due at school: August 30.

Grade 6

Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic
Legion of Honor
34th and Clement, Lincoln Park
www.famsf.org
Through July 24
13 and younger: free

Grade 7

Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
51 Yerba Buena Lane (at Mission, between 3rd and 4th Streets)
www.mocfa.org
Opens June 17
18 years old and younger: free

Grade 8

From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission (at 3rd Street)
www.moadsf.org
Open only through July 13. Try to make it! We are doing a project based on his work. If you cannot go to this exhibit, then sketch at one of the other shows.
12 years and under: free
Students with ID card: $5

Optional for all grades (or if you cannot make it to any shows above):
Toy Theatres: Worlds in Miniature
Museum of Performance and Design
401 Van Ness
www.mpdsf.org
Free or $5 suggested donation
(Last year's 8th Graders sketched this fun show.)