Students can learn from Dresden exhibit

By By Georgia E. Frye / staff writer
May 2, 2004
A University of Southern Mississippi professor has written a classroom curriculum to go along with the Glory of Baroque Dresden exhibit in Jackson.
Jack Kyle, executive director of the exhibit, said last week that Marilyn D. Foxworth from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at USM, wrote a teacher's guide and lesson plans that could help students on statewide standardized tests.
In addition to the lesson plans, Kyle said Foxworth and other USM professors conducted 11 training sessions to let teachers know how they could use the exhibit in the classroom.
He said there also is a program in which 10 teachers will win a free trip to Dresden, Germany.
Kyle said the main goal of the exhibit is to educate students and citizens of Mississippi.
The exhibit's 15 galleries will be on display at the Mississippi Arts Pavilion until Sept. 6. It is filled with such treasures as "The Procuress," by Johannes Vermeer, the Dresden 41-carat Green Diamond that is valued at more than $200 million and Rembrandt's "Samson Proposing the Riddle at the Wedding Feast."
The exhibit marks the time period of the reigns of Frederick Augustus I, known as Augustus the Strong (1694-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and his son and successor, Frederick Augustus II (1734-1763), who also was Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. It was during their reign that Dresden experienced its most glorious period in the arts.