New Program Aims To Get Students Excited About The Arts In Philadelphia
By Justin Udo
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - "Students at Museums in Philly" is an organization geared toward getting teens excited about the arts around the city. They are now launching a new program to do just that.
The program is free audio tours done by different students featured at 15 sites around Philadelphia. Asef Khurshan wrote and recorded an audio tour for one of the exhibits at the Barnes Foundation:
"I take the listener and I put them into the painting. I make them feel what the artist is feeling. I ask them a lot of questions about, what do you think the artist was thinking would you like to be portrayed in this style? Do you like this kind of painting? What are your thoughts on this painting? I let their mind flow."
Asef says he thinks this is a great way to help get teens interested in art:
"I always thought that museums were like a place where you listen to some boring tour guide speak, but in my tour, what I did is I let the listener make the painting his own and embrace it and make his own story out of it."
For more information about the tours, CLICK HERE.