MARCH 2012
Art Counts – A New York City Travel Experience This year’s logo for the AP Art History trip to New York Lee, Rosalind O’Connor, Sophie Odom, Ann Kathryn City seemed to say it all. The Class of 12 viewed over Parrish, Hannah Trachy, and Sara Walker. They were led by AP Art History instructor Connie Deal and 11 thousand works of art, took 10 subway rides, chaperoned by Registrar Connie Johnson. patronized over 9 shops, enjoyed 8 Students had the opportunity to restaurants, visited 7 museums visit 7 museums including: the over the course of 6 days and 5 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), nights, while seeing Broadway the Guggenheim, the Frick productions at 4 theaters, and Collection, the Neue Gallerie, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cloisters, studying 3 major buildings, after 2 and the Metropolitan Museum of flights to 1 fabulous city. Weeks Art. The Metropolitan’s collection before the February 15 departure alone boast over 11,000 works, date students began a countdown so while students breezed through for the much-anticipated trip to each museum, they recognized New York. They studied works of works that they had studied in their art and prepared journals that were textbook and made connections to filled with information about the artists and time periods in art. venues that the class would visit However, it wasn’t just the art that while on the trip. During their added to the experience; The travel schedule, the students would evenings included 4 Broadway present their reports to their peers, sharing information about “can’t plays: Anything Goes, War Horse, miss” opportunities and things to Seminar, and BlueMan Group, and see. The 15 AP Art History students included: Catherine who could forget the group’s favorite restaurant, Ellen’s Adams, Meredith Bear, Brittany Briddell, Katie Stardust Diner where students sang along and bounced Coleman, Cille Harris, Dawson Haynes, Jean their way through dinner in the 50’s retro diner. Catherine Hubbard, Bentley Hudson, Erin Katz, Gibbs Additionally, while we’re counting, according to the