Session Two

Session two of Artology brought wonderful experiences! Not only did we have our new 4th & 5th grade students, but we were also joined by many 6th-8th grade Artologists from the first session who returned to enjoy more arts, science, and field trips, plus culinary and language arts lessons.

New second session students make friends from our worm compost

Second session student making paper for the first time

Making masks at Artology Headquarters

Learning to cook classic dishes in a culinary arts class

Weeks Three & Four: Forest Ecology & Interconnection

Check out a few of the amazing things our Artologists did in the last two weeks of our first session!

We explored tree canopies at Morris Arboretum, got our hands dirty learning about urban farming in a Greenhouse at the SHAREfood program, and fearlessly tried new foods at Reading Terminal Market. We scavenged for answers at the Wagner Free Institute, and investigated clues at the La Salle University Art Museum. Back at Artology headquarters we made compositions with owl-pellet bones, played water cycle games, and wrote skits about our new ecological knowledge.

Week Two: Urban Ecology

We started off week two with a bang! Monday morning we visited Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ. Then in the afternoon the crew of the AJ Meerwald, a schooner that was once used for catching oysters, took us sailing near the Statue of Liberty and New York Skyline.

It took some teamwork to raise our ship’s sail!

Students made a skyline of their own, and learned how to build a worm compost.



We went to the Rodin Museum, the Barnes Foundation, and Friday we took our Artologists to cool off at a local pool. Quite a busy week!

Ecology @ Artology Begins!

Artology 2013 began on June 24th – time is flying! Vivian Williams, our guest educator from the Philadelphia Water Department, came on the first week to teach us about green jobs, water runoff, and our local tree species.

We went on trips to Wissahickon Creek and back on site we explored water usage through paper-making with Art Teachers Liz Latham and Gaby Aruta and Science Teacher Patsy Babcock.

We learned that sometimes the key to succeeding is to ask for help…



and that other times you just have to give it your all.