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Join storyteller Tom Lee as he looks at George Stubbs’s painting “Phaeton with a Pair of Cream Ponies and a Stable-Lad” and tells the story of “Phaëton and the Sun Chariot.”

at home: Learning Resources
The Yale Center for British Art’s “Artful Tales” video series explores paintings from the Center’s collection through visual literacy strategies, storytelling, and other learning resources. Join professional storyteller Tom Lee as he weaves his tales inspired by the imagery featured in selected paintings and walks you through accompanying educational exercises developed by visual literacy specialist Patricia Darragh.

About Tom Lee
Tom Lee has been a teaching artist for the Yale Center for British Art’s School Partnership Program for fifteen years. Lee visits partner schools in New Haven before and after their visits to the Center, and leads visual literacy workshops for educators that promote deeply engaged museum visits and thoughtful reflection when back in the classroom.

With the Center’s Linda Friedlaender, and educators Patti Darragh and James Shivers, Lee also leads the Center’s Summer Teacher Institute. Beyond his work at Yale, Lee is the director of artsVOYAGE, an arts-in-education project of Spencertown Academy Arts Center in Spencertown, New York. He has also lead programs on art and literacy for Art Omi, The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, and Olana, the home of artist Frederic Edwin Church.

Lee is a professional storyteller and often performs for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Blanton Museum, The Wadsworth Atheneum, The Metropolitan Opera Guild, and the Yale Center for British Art.

About Patricia Darragh
Patricia Darragh has been involved with the Yale Center for British Art’s Museum-School Partnership program for the past twelve years. She has worked with teachers and students in the Center’s classrooms and galleries. Darragh has presented visual literacy workshops to museum educators, teachers, and students using art works to enhance close observation and thinking as well as the instruction of writing skills and reading comprehension. In collaboration with Linda Friedlaender, Darragh has participated as an instructional leader for the Center’s Summer Teacher Institute for ten years.

Darragh has taught at the elementary and secondary levels as a teacher and reading specialist for over thirty years, and as a curriculum coordinator, developed a reading language arts curriculum aligned with Common Core State Standards for grades K–5 for the North Branford School District. Additionally, she taught reading strategy and children’s literature as an adjunct professor for the University of New Haven’s Master of Arts in Teaching program.

Credits
“at home: Learning Resources” was produced by the Center in partnership with storyteller Tom Lee and visual literacy consultant Patricia Darragh. This video series is generously supported by the William Randolph Hearst Educational Endowment at the Center. © Yale Center for British Art, 2020

Image
George Stubbs, "Phaeton with a Pair of Cream Ponies and a Stable-Lad" (detail), between 1780 and 1784, beeswax and oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection