November 2, 2016 - Students from Ann Boland's art classes, Teresa Beasley's communication classes, and Dr. Kathy Watlington's Spanish classes traveled to Shreveport on Thursday, Oct. 27, to tour the R.W. Norton Art Gallery.
Boland wrote a grant that was funded by the Panola College Foundation to provide Panola College students with a museum experience. The Norton collection includes more than 400 paintings by more than 100 artists, dating from the Renaissance to present day. The museum includes The Classical Influence, the Journey to Modernism, A Century of Turmoil - Europe in the 19th Century, a Fairy Tale Gallery for children, From Rebirth to Enlightenment: Europe from the 14th to 18th Century, Candle in the Dark, Origins of Western Art, Mind of the Artist, Louisiana Collections, The Persuasion of the Portrait, Visions of America, The Icon and Iconographer, American Art History, Soldiers and Statesman, Inventing the West, Living in America, a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, Landscape Movement - the Hudson River School, Firearms Collection, Views of the World, The Gray/Blumenstiel Doll Collection, and The Natural World. On loan to the museum are visiting exhibits of photographs from early New Orleans called "Scarlett Passions" and posters from World War I, an exhibit entitled "Art Goes to War."
The Norton also features 43 landscaped acres with paved trails, outdoor sculptures, water gardens and more than 10,000 plants.
The Norton, located at 4747 Creswell Ave., is free and open to the public. No photography is allowed in the Museum and Gardens without educational purpose and special, advance permission. Find out more at the museum's website: www.rwnaf.org.
Participating students included Jennifer Aguirre, Ibrahim (Demola) Akande, Alma Angeles, Tarsheanna Bauer, Haley Bridges, Hannah Cortinas, Aletha Cotton, Jake Craig, Nicholas Crowe, Anna Crumbie, Abriea Deckard, Julissa Dejulian, Daria Eremeeva, Brittany Fendall, Jessica Gehrts, Monique Glasper, Lorena Gonsalez, Alec Humphries, Lashekia Johnson, Brittany Lawrence, Destini McClary, ShaBrittney Menefee, Esther Oderinde, Diana Perez, Charlynn Perry, Edgar Pineda, Angela Rabon, Sara Randall, Paola Rangel, Kyana Reagan, Dorleen Rogers, Estefani Salgado, Mia Sartor, Mary Ella Sherman, Samuel Slone, Wendy Spence, Jamecia Taylor, George Valdez, Pablo Valdez, Nancy Vang, Stacy Vang, Lyndsay Webb, Wanda Weeks, Kyla Whitaker, Lauran Williams, and Maddy Youngblood.
