Our Take-Out boxes come in a variety of topics and most can be geared for multiple grade levels. All Take-Out boxes adhere to NC curriculum standards for the suggested grade levels which are listed out in each box. Take-Outs come with supplies, instructions, online supplemental resources, and best of all – they’re free!
Museum Take-Out boxes can be checked out for a two week period so that they can be passed around to your entire grade level. Simply peruse the menu, select your favorite Take-Out and order by emailing Alexander.Brooks@gastongov.com. Our staff will deliver the Take-Out to you and will return in two weeks to pick it up.
Tales from an Elder Folk Artist - Nellie Ashford
For Grades: Pre-K through High School
Celebrate community and memory through the mixed-medium artwork of Mecklenburg County-based artist Nellie Ashford. Utilizing collage techniques, students will create an image of a core memory or of their community, creating a sense of place while demonstrating Nellie’s belief that anyone can create art. Comes with a storybook for Pre-K-through 1st grade.
NC Textile Design
For Grades: Pre-K through High School
Students will design a visually engaging textile or surface pattern using color and shape, while applying the principles of repetition, pattern, and balance. Their work will be inspired by historical textile designs from North Carolina and the Southeast. Through this project, students will also explore how artists contribute to and function within the commercial art world.
Sacred Geometry - The Golden Ratio in Art
For Grades: Middle through High School
There is something the human brain finds instinctively pleasing about the visual aspect of pi. We find it throughout nature, throughout the world and time, in every great masterpiece and in the structures we build. Using the work of world-renowned Gastonia-born artists, Dr. John Biggers and his nephew, James Biggers, students will examine this phenomenon and create a paper ‘tile’ using similar techniques and learn the art of gold-foiling.
“What is it saying to you?” Advertising and the way we think
For Grades: Middle through High School
We are bombarded with marketing daily that tries to tempt us in a variety of ways. Using critical thinking, students will examine the strategies marketers use to convince us to purchase their products, learn how the strategies have been utilized to great effect throughout history, and look into the role of graphic designers in making products appeal to the public.
Strike! – The 1929 Loray Mill Strike
For Grades: Middle through High School
Protests, murder and what it means to be “American” - find out where you stand. In 1929, the entire world turned its attention to Gaston County. A labor dispute had risen, a strike had taken place and by the end of the year, two people had been murdered. In this Take-Out, students will examine the 1929 Loray Mill Strike, its connections to the National Labor Movement, Communism, and what it means to be “American.”
Black-Out Poetry
For Grades: 5th through 8th
The written word and drawing are two separate art forms – or are they? This Take-Out examines the life and works of doomed Romantic poet, Edgar Allan Poe and uses black-out techniques to create a new literary and visual masterpiece. The words are already there – it is up to the student to tease out new meaning, new life, and new visuals from the page.
More Take-Out Menu Options are in the works – so check back regularly!
