I started at the gallery next to the gift shop, then went to AI room and moved to the 1st gallery. Although we backtrack the gallery, it works better instead of going to clockwise all the way.
Before going to the gallery, we did a sketching of “The Canvas On the Moon”, and compare their artwork with Cai’s version. I told one student to use ChatGPT to create “The Canvas On the Moon”.
I am not good to tour this grade students, but group discussions worked.
This school did not know that the museum is now showing Cai’s works, and requested docents to incorporate Silk Road into our tour. I was able to connect some of Cai’s works to Asian traditions (Oracle bones to Cai’s “Rubbing of Archean Era” ; Mandala to Cai’s “Return to Darkness” in Gallery 2; Dragons to Cai’s “Drawing for Ascending Dragon” ). We may need to come up more with these connections and create touring aids.
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