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Several projects have already produced web component that can reached from links on this page. Please come back to this page in the coming months to find links to other programs as they become available on the web.
Music and Art
Coastlines Sound Installation :
Discover behind-the-scenes aspects of a unique sound installation created for the Dallas Museum of Art by students in Dallas, Texas and Toulon, France.
Contributing museums : Dallas Museum of Art
Art and The Court of Burgundy
Explore art of medieval France in "The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy".
Five Facts :
1 - Medieval Power and Politics
2 - Ruling with Religion
3 - Death and Ritual
4 - The Hand and the Artist
5 - An Enduring Legacy
Contributing museums : Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
The Education Trunk
Mediators and plastic artists from the cultural service in the Musée
des Beaux-Arts of Dijon set up an education trunk for the attention of
their American colleagues. The trunk will accompany the Mourners
throughout the exhibition tour. It contains a lot of games, and objects,
and costumes. The trunk is well-documented too.
To download a selection of these games and documents, please click on the title.
Contributing museums : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria
The tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria, like the tomb of Philip the Bold, was installed in the choir of the church of the Charterhouse of Champmol. With the French Revolution the tombs of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless were dismantled, then remounted in the abbey church of Saint Bénigne in Dijon, where they were vandalized by revolutionaries.The recumbent statues were partially destroyed while certain figures of mourners disappeared. In 1819, architect Claude Saintpère undertook the restoration of the tombs, which were finally installed in the Guards Hall of the former ducal palace, today's Fine Arts Museum of Dijon.
Amuse yourself and find the different steps of dismantlement and remountment of the tomb of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria.
Please click on the title to discover the game
Contributing museums : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Talking Art transforms lives
Can learning to talk about art help troubled youth in both the U.S. and France? A new FRAME pilot project, Talking Art, hopes to find out. Talking Art is a version of the highly successful RAISE (Responding to Art Involves Self Expression) program developed by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute with the Berkshire County (Massachusetts) Juvenile Courts. "If we consider 'art' to be an expression of human experience, then engaging with art is a way to connect with larger-than-self human experience," writes the Clark's Ronna Tulgan Ostheimer (photo), who developed the program and whose paper on this won an American Association of Museums prize. "More simply," she writes, "engaging with art presents an opportunity for personal growth."
Contributing museums : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Le Grand Salon
Step into an 18th Century Parisian Salon and install paintings and furniture appropriate for the period.
Contributing museums : Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Family Events in France & the US
Approaches to family programming in French and American museums are being examined by educators from Montpellier and Williamstown. The results of this study will shape a family day celebrating FRAME, to be held at the Clark in December, the format of which will be available to other FRAME museums.
Contributing museums : Musée Fabre, Montpellier, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Room of Wonders
Create a Room of Wonders, your own collection of wondrous objects, from FRAME museum collections.
Contributing museums : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Denver Art Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Portland Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Musée de Grenoble, Musée des Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens - Marseille, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Cleveland Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum
French Oil Sketches
Learn about French oil sketches, a type of painting that is little-known or understood, in this online exhibition that links well known and lesser-known French artists’ oil sketches in the LACMA collection with finished paintings, cartoons, and other works in Lille as well as other FRAME collections.
Contributing museums : Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Reality, Flattery, or Fiction: The Art of Portraiture
The goal of the project is to develop new educational tools to explore portraits.
"The Beholder" is a series of short stories authored by Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students taking a creative writing class led by Dr. Susann Cokal.
Using the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil as inspiration, each member of the class selected a year in the life of the painting to create a short work of fiction.
The first six chapter are available on the web site of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Contributing museums : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
Foreign Language Project
A pilot resource pack (postcards, lesson plans, and a CD) will help foreign language teachers work with images from both museums to enhance their curriculum. Students in French Language programs of high schools in the US and English Language programs in France will become 'pen-pals,' corresponding about works of art in each partner's museum.
Contributing museums : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Unpacking Marcel Duchamp's Miniature Museum
Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-Valise , a portable museum of reproductions and replicas of the artist's most important works, has inspired the development of gallery spaces that “unpack” the artist’s miniature museum, exploring the artist’s life and his radical ideas about art in a variety of innovative ways.
Contributing museums : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Dallas Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum