K-12

Fieldtrips

Each fall and spring, teachers from area schools bring their students on fieldtrips to the Art Park – a place where their textbooks spring to life through the sculptures they discover while exploring nature.

Fieldtrips can include a guided tour and an environmental art workshop where students create their own work of art out of materials found in nature. Environmental art workshops are theme based and led by a professional artist.

To schedule a fieldtrip for your classroom or homeschool group contact Patricia Innis at 231.378.4963.

Fieldtrip fees

Self-guided tour, $1 per student and $3 per adult.
Guided tour, an additional $1 per student.
Environmental Art Workshop, an additional $1 per student.
This can be paid the day of the outing by check made payable to Michigan Legacy Art Park. Or you can elect that your school receive an invoice from the Art Park.

Looking to Learn

Looking to Learn is a series of theme-based booklets that help teachers link the sculptures in the Park with the curriculum.

Download Looking To Learn Volume I: Exploring Stories and Legends (Adobe PDF)

Click to download the high res photos


Secret Passion David Greenwood	Logging Camp by Patricia Innis	Ontonagon by John Richardson	Bonnet by Lois Teicher	Fort by David Barr	Fallen Comrade by David Greenwood

Artist-in-Residence

A typical residency takes place over the course of 5 class periods (about one hour each). A school may have up to three participating classes.

Residency fees – $1,200 plus materials

Artist-in-Residence program catalog coming soon!

Workshops

A typical workshop takes place during one class period, or about 45-minutes. Each workshop is designed to explore Michigan’s history, culture or environment through a hands-on project that makes interdisciplinary connections and expands artistic thinking beyond the confines of the classroom. The projects are inspired by a theme in the Art Park. Photos of the specific sculpture(s) that help to tell this story will be shown to the students. A school may have up to three participating classes.

Workshop fees – $250, includes materials

Workshop program catalog coming soon!

Featured artist lectures

Geared toward middle-school to high-school students, these artist lectures connect students with contemporary and local profession artists. Students learn about the artistic process, different mediums the artist works in, what inspires the artist, and a retrospective of how their work has evolved over time. A school may have up to three participating classes.

Lecture fees - $200

Lecture series catalog coming soon!