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Spady Kids Cultural Club
Inspiring disadvantaged youth to strive for positive personal prosperity by providing historical examples, positive exposure and diverse cultural experiences.
The Kids Cultural Club program is designed to share Palm Beach County’s history and cultural heritage with disadvantaged youth. The intergenerational activities include: historically significant games, creating museum exhibits, and field trips to local cultural destinations.
3T (Teach, Travel and Tour)
The 3T program is an outreach vehicle designed to allow the Spady Museum to go outside its own walls to take virtual exhibits to your students. The museum’s educational staff will travel to your school to share cultural and historical mini-exhibits and artifact replicas with your students. At the end of the 30 minute presentation staff will facilitate (if time permits) an activity designed to reinforce concepts learned and engage your students in a hands-on project. Each 3T outreach session typically lasts 50-60 minutes. The duration of each presentation is flexible depending on allocated time. Teachers and students are strongly encouraged to visit the Spady Museum after a 3T visit to view the full exhibit for further reinforcement of learned concepts. Assistance with transportation may be available if needed. There is no fee for this program. If you have any questions about the 3T program or want to schedule your on-site visit, please call (561) 279-8883 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. You can also email our dedicated 3T staff members Charlene Jones at cfjones@spadymuseum.org or Angelica Vergel at avergel@spadymuseum.org.
Current Exhibitions
African American Neighborhoods of Old Delray
In a time when there were no paved streets or street signs, and some areas where streets were not even delineated, residents of these small neighborhoods and their ancestors were builders, artists, business owners and contributors to the circle of life and were driven by the spirit of survival and creativity in the midst of challenges. This is their story.
What to expect from the student group tour:
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Students will tour both current exhibitions
Students teams will engage in a scavenger hunt, winners will receive prizes.
Oh Freedom Over Me
This is a multimedia exhibit of the Freedom Summer campaign of 1964. The photographs from the Southern Documentary Project tell the story of the social change in Mississippi during the summer of 1964. Key issues: civil rights, voting rights, education.
What to expect from the student group tour:
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Students will tour both current exhibitions
Student teams will generate campaign ideas and a poster for a cause of their choice.
Recent Past Exhibitions
Pahokee Prepares for War
This exhibition examines the town of Pahokee at work and play as it is faced the realities of World War II, and provides a rare glimpse into the community at a pivotal moment in history.
The Highwaymen
“The Highwaymen” is the name given (in 1994) to the group of African American friends from Fort Pierce, Florida who wanted to earn their living from their art rather than in the fields or packing houses in the 1950s and ‘60s.
Their story began when Alfred Hair, an enterprising student at Lincoln Park Academy, took art lessons from A.E. “Bean” Backus, who was one of Florida’s best know landscape artists at the time. Hair began recruiting and teaching his friends what he learned from Backus and soon, the group began mass-producing their paintings, loading them up in their cars on the weekends, and selling them to motels, restaurants and anyone else who was interested.
Many early Highwaymen paintings were done on Upson board with whatever painting materials they had on hand, including house paint. Highwaymen traveled the highways and byways of south Florida selling their paintings as far south as the Miami area, as far north as the Daytona Beach area and throughout the inland areas of the state.
The Highwaymen style of landscape painting depicts a Florida paradise with billowing pink clouds, windswept palm trees, lakes, oceans and spectacular sunsets. The Highwaymen inadvertently created an awareness of and appreciation for Florida regional art. Their impact is growing and increasingly being recognized throughout the art world.
 
Online Resources
Suggested topics to review with the class before your visit to the Spady Museum:
· What are some characteristics of Florida’s landscape?
· Why do you think they are called the Florida Highwaymen?
· What does it mean to mass produce?
· The Highwaymen sold their paintings for $25. If average monthly living expenses were $600 per month, how many paintings did the Highwaymen need paint and sell per month to pay their bills?
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