Looking to Learn, the college's innovative gallery education program, brings public school children to exhibitions. The program's objective is to promote visual thinking through interactive, inquiry-based activities. Children learn how to look by doing, by imagining what the artists were thinking about when they created the work, or by projecting their own imagination onto what exists in the work.

Looking to Learn is in its seventh year, funded in part this year by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Looking to Learn offers teachers and students a professionally designed program that includes:

• A pre-gallery visit to the classroom introducing students to concepts of contemporary art and preparing them through the use of visual materials for their MassArt exhibition experience.

• guided, interactive gallery visit in MassArt's exhibition space, exploring the special themes and ideas of current exhibitions.

• Suggestions for follow-up activities which can be coordinated with curricula, designed to integrate students' ideas with those of the exhibition.

For more information, please contact Sandy Weisman, Director of the Looking to Learn Program at 617.879.7336.