Crossing Boundaries
In 2012, the Barnes will launch Crossing Boundaries, a new educational initiative, illuminating connections between the Art and Aesthetics and Horticulture programs.
Two cross-cultural courses, Understanding World Art and Understanding World Gardens, will debut in 2012–2013. Expanding the educational experiment begun by Barnes—in collaboration with John Dewey and others—these courses will be interdisciplinary, accessible, and engaging, stimulating imaginative and critical thinking.
Crossing Boundaries courses will be as rich and varied as the Barnes’s art and plant collections. Courses will be taught by artists and designers, as well as experts in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, conservation, education, environmental science, horticulture, and psychology. In Crossing Boundaries, the Barnes will collaborate with cultural institutions like the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Winterthur, Longwood Gardens, the Morris Arboretum, and Chanticleer, as well as academic institutions like Lincoln University.
Understanding World Art
Understanding World Art builds upon Barnes’s interest in art and craft from around the world, and from his belief that beauty and quality could be achieved through different means.
Understanding World Gardens
Understanding World Gardens extends the Foundation's longstanding practice of educating its horticulture students in scientific and aesthetic disciplines.