🎨🔬 Introducing the Leonardo Learning Workshop!

Get ready for an exciting new addition to this year’s Stations of Imagination—the Leonardo Learning Workshop!

Step into the world of the brilliant Leonardo da Vinci and unleash your creativity with fun art and STEM activities designed to inspire minds of all ages. Plus, don’t miss the chance to meet the legendary Leonardo himself! It’s a unique, interactive experience you won’t want to miss at this year’s event.

Join us for a day of discovery, creativity, and fun at the Leonardo Learning Workshop—where art and science come to life!

This workshop is part of a $15,000 grant WCTE has been awarded from WETA for engagement activities centered around their upcoming documentary, Leonardo da Vinci. This two-part series is a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington, D.C., and is directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon.  

With this grant funding, WCTE has many opportunities planned during the next few months!

As students return to the classroom in the fall, we will be holding an art contest for middle and high schools across our region.  We will invite students to create artwork inspired by the life and work of da Vinci, and will be awarding cash prizes!

Finally, in November, we will be screening the film, and will hold a panel discussion with experts in art history and engineering to provide further context to the information presented in the documentary.  This enlightening event will also be free and open to the public:  more information coming soon!

LEONARDO da VINCI, a new, two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon will air Nov. 18 and 19, at 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS App.

The film, which explores the life and work of the 15^th century polymath Leonardo da Vinci, is Burns’s first non-American subject. It also marks a significant change in the team’s filmmaking style, which includes using split screens with images, video and sound from different periods to further contextualize Leonardo’s art and scientific explorations. LEONARDO da VINCI looks at how the artist influenced and inspired future generations, and it finds in his soaring imagination and profound intellect the foundation for a conversation we are still having today: what is our relationship with nature and what does it mean to be human.