Student Tuesdays
Tuesdays will continue to be dedicated to students and teachers throughout the “Magnet: New York” exhibition. From 11AM to 7PM, assorted material will be available to the general public at Proa’ s Library for an in depth study of the contents of the exhibition. Bibliographical texts, catalogues, letters and documents are crucial to the exhibition’s investigation carried out by its curator, Rodrigo Alonso. The chance to access this information poses also a reflection on curatorial decisions and chosen viewpoint.
On that day, Proa’ s Education Department staff will also offer special guided tours and dialogues between the educators in each gallery and a reduced number of visitors. These interactions allow the public to reflect upon the chosen concepts as well as the educational projects for schools and general public. Teachers benefit from the same privileges as the students. Café Proa will offer a special more accessible menu. The aim of this activity is that teachers and the artistic community of students alike can transform Fundación Proa in a study lab.
To access this benefits students and teachers have to present their credential.
Through innovative educational strategies, specifically planned for each exhibition, Proa designs a range of activities that accommodate the public’s interests.
Guided tours
Guided tours for schools and universities
Guided workshop for elementary and middle schools
Guided workshop for high schools
Guided tours for professors
Tuesday: Student and Teacher’s Day
Family activities
Objects that inspire thought
Guided tours
Permanent Guided Tours
The Educational Department has designed a new approach for guided tours based on an open and interactive dialogue offering the possibility of conducting permanent tours without previous appointment. The proposal stands out due to the constant presence of educators, who are available and accompany the visitor during their tour throughout the galleries. Our goal is to generate original points of view in which the visitor is able to retrieve his or her own perspective on the artwork.
Available from 11.00 to 19.00 hs.
Group Guided Tours
The Group Guided Tours encourages the visitor’s participation in order to achieve a collective understanding among the participants, on the exhibitions and contemporary art.
Tuesday to Friday, 17.00
Saturday and Sunday, 15.00 and 17.00
Duration: 60 minutes.
Group size: up to 30 people (without previous appointment) .
Study Group Guided Tours
These meetings offer an in-depth analysis on a specific aspect of the exhibitions. A space to explore, along with an educator, guest artists and investigators, the issues and challenges of art and its authors.
Fridays, 16:00
Duration: 45 minutes.
Group size: up to 15 people (with previous appointment).
Institutional Guided Tours
Special Tours that take in consideration the interests and expectations of each group, offering the collaboration among the different institutions.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Group size: up to 30 people (with previous appointment).
Corporative Guided Tours
For business and corporative groups, we offer a variety of visit options, adjusted to the group’s interests, which include a tour of the Foundation and the exhibition.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Group size: up to 30 people (with previous appointment).
In English
Specialized educators from PROA´s Education Department offer the foreign public the possibility of experiencing the Foundation’s space, its architecture and the current exhibitions.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Group size: up to 30 people (with previous appointment).
For more information and registrations : 4104-1041 / educacion@proa.org
Educational Institucions
Upcoming exhibition "Magnet: New York" (July - August - September, 2010)
This exhibition will offer the public a wide variety of argentinian artists who travelled and interacted with the city of New York, the new established art center of the 1960s. A series of works, reconstructions and documents of the period will portray the path that opened from Informalism to Abstraction, leading finally to Conceptual art.
For more information about the exhibition, click here.
School and University Visits
Our guided tours offer scripts that aim specifically to each level of education, presenting the different perspectives and levels of complexity of the exhibitions. These scripts explore the different possibilities of perception and invite docents and students into a collaborative work with our education staff.
Tuesday to Friday, from 9.30 to 13.00
Duration: 60 minutes.
Group size: up to 30 students signed-up in advance (with previous appointment).
Workshop Visits for Elementary and Middle Schools
Constructing futurist flowers
The workshop visits are directed to toddlers or primary and nursery schools that want to visit “The Universe of Futurism: 1909-1936.” The activity ends with the production of a “Futurist Flower”.
Friday from 9.30 to 11.00
Duration: 90 minutes.
Group size: up to 30 students signed-up in advance (with previous appointment).
Workshop Visits for High Schools
Freedom Words
The tours explore the different disciplinary fields approached by Futurism, putting an emphasis on the “Freedom words,” a concept developed by F. T. Marinetti, one of the creators of the movement. During the workshop, the participants are invited to develop their own compositions using words, onomatopoeias, images, and textures, based on their own ideas of the future.
Friday from 9.30 to 11.00
Duration: 90 minutes.
Group size: up to 30 students signed-up in advance (with previous appointment).
Admission free for students and teachers accredited.
For more information and registrations : 4104-1041 / educacion@proa.org
Visit for Professors
Guided Tours for Teachers
The Education Department offers a space of exchange for professors of different levels. They are invited to tour through the exhibition along with out trained gallery educators, and experience our educational plan. The objective is to enrich the relationship between the guided tours and the classroom activities.
Institutional encounters
The Education Department offers managers and counselors the possibility to plan special visits in the form of institutional meetings or training activities for their employees.
Exhibition information
To download information about the exhibition “The Futurist Universe: 1909-1936,”, click here (press kit).
Admission free for students and teachers accredited.
For more information and registrations : 4104-1041 / educacion@proa.org
Tuesday: Students and Teachers’ day
Free Entrance
Every Tuesday free admission for students and teachers with ID or institutional accreditation.
Supplementary bibliography for consult
Every Tuesday, during our student and teacher’s day, a special selection of reading materials is available in our library to encourage the investigation and understanding of “The Futurist Universe: 1909-1936.”
Bibliographical selection:
Belli, G et al., Sprachen des Futurismus. Berlín, Ed. Jovis, 2009.
Belli, G., Depero Futurista 1914/1948. Trento, Ed. Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Trento y Rovereto (MART), 2004.
Boschiero, N. (ed.), Casa D´Arte Futurista Depero. Trento, Ed. Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Trento y Rovereto (MART), 2008.
Calvesi, M. et al., Futurismo 1909/2009: Velocita + Arte + Azione. Milán, Ed. Skira, 2009.
Godoli, E., Il dizionario del futurismo, Tomo 1: A-J y Tomo 2: K/Z. Trento, Ed. Valecchi, 2004.
Hulten, P. et al., Futurismo & Futurismi. Milán, Ed. Bompiani, 1986.
Mattioli Rossi, L. (ed.), Boccioni - Materia: A futurism masters piece and the avant-garde in Milan and Paris. Nueva York, Ed. Guggenheim Museum, 2004.
Sasone, L. (ed.), F. T. Marinetti = Futurismo. Milán, Ed. Federico Motta, 2009.
Family Activities
The family activities include workshops, games, and a space for thought that supports different perspectives applies them to different working methods. Their goal is to create a space of interaction and between parents and their children, and kids with adults.
Workshop Visit: Marionettes of Futurism
“Marionettes of Futurism” offers a special visit through the exhibition “The Futurist Universe: 1909-1936,” and ends with workshop . We invite children and adults to work with interlocking material and produce marionettes inspired on futurists artworks.
Sunday, 11.30
Duration: 60 minutes.
Age: Children age 6-12, accompanied by adults.
Group size: up to 30 students signed-up in advance (with previous appointment).
Educational Publications
Using diverse formats and contents, these notebooks contain games, activities, and suggestions for families and groups of different generations and backgrounds that wish to learn more on the artworks. At the end of the exhibition the publications will be available online.
Futurist Constructions (April-July 2010)
The “Futurist Constructions” program offer a series of flashcards that suggest an overview of the exhibition that allows families, groups or individuals to explore and share opinions. It includes the materials needed to construct a Futurist flower. Permanently available in the exhibition galleries.
Publications from past exhibitions
Visiting Contemporary Art (January-March, 2010)
A Bridge to the Art of the Riverbank (October 2009 – January 2010)
To download the complete activity, click here
For more information and registrations : 4104-1041 / educacion@proa.org
Objects that inspire thought
The objects that inspire thought is a program designed for each exhibition, which function as a “bridge” between the public and the artwork, offering new possibilities for interpretation and observation. With a special selection of quotes, we suggest a tour of “The Futurist Universe: 1909-1936” from the perspective of its historic manifestos.
Permanently available in the exhibition rooms.