Lesley Wright

Captured Creatures - an interdisciplinary exhibition seminar part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Curricular Projects
"Captured Creatures" is a model of an interdisciplinary seminar that utilizes one or more campus collections as the catalyst for both academic and curatorial learning. Using a thematic approach and selected works of art and material culture, students explore a body of knowledge, and use it to curate an exhibition. In this case, the subject was animals and the focus collection was the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College Art Collection. Students learned different disciplinary ways of seeing, brought their training to share with the class through co-teaching, investigated animals through various disciplinary lenses, and created a multidisciplinary exhibition.

Team Profile: Grinnell College part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Participant Pages
Vicki Bentley-Condit, Jackie Brown, Lesley Wright Team Background Grinnell's team has a long history of fruitful collaboration on projects at the intersection of art and biology. Though housed in different ...

Lesley Wright part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Participant Pages
Director, Faulconer Gallery Grinnell College I have directed the Faulconer Gallery for 13 years, arriving as the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts opened in 1999. I oversee a staff of 4.5 professionals and we program ...