Finding 28: Sculpture in Your Schoolyard

This page is from the Learning to Read Through the Arts (LTA) guide for teachers, parents, and students. The LTA program began at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1970 and was created to combat illiteracy and introduce the arts to inner-city children. LTA was run by educators and artists, and worked to create teaching methods that advantageously combined both disciplines. One of LTA’s projects for its 1983 program was called “Sculptures in Your Schoolyard,” which resulted in the creation of a sculpture garden at P.S. 198 in Manhattan. This 1983 guide documented the results of the project and demonstrated how other students could benefit from “multisensory educational experiences. The Guggenheim’s LTA records were processed in 2009. There is also an index to this collection available in the Archives Collections section of this Web site.

—Pete Asch, archives assistant