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Photography and Race: Blackness and The Self

A Pedagogical Model
College Educators Faculty Teaching

Jane'a Johnson's students explore how blackness is created and recreated as a visual phenomenon in self-directed essays drawing on museum visits and course texts

Structure/Skin

A Pedagogical Model
College Educators Faculty Teaching

Students in Carol Lasch's Spatial Dynamics course draw inspiration from the collection.

Extraordinary Ordinary

A Pedagogical Model
College Educators Faculty Teaching

Faculty member Rosa Weinberg reflects on the relevancy of art analysis as a starting point for exploring form in design and as a powerful habit of mind for beginning designers.

Pan-African Aesthetics: Past, Present, Future

A Hybrid Pedagogical Model
College Educators Faculty Teaching

Students in Jane'a Johnson's wintersession course explore works in the collection related to Pan-Africanism through Instagram-based creative projects.

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Life as a Spalter Teaching Fellow

College Educators Perspectives Student Voices

K-12 Virtual Visit

Nesmin and his coffin, 170-30 BCE
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits

What can we learn about life in ancient Egypt by examining protective symbols on the coffin of a priest named Nesmin?

K-12 Virtual Visit

Lynda Benglis, Zita, 1972 and Shari Mendelson, Round Blue/Green Vessel, 2015
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits

How do Lynda Benglis and Shari Mendelson communicate ideas and messages through their sculptures’ forms and materials?

K-12 Virtual Visit

Aaron Douglas, Building More Stately Mansions, 1944
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits

Aaron Douglas was inspired by ancient and contemporary architecture, visual art and poetry. By exploring his painting and finding connections to poetry, what can we learn about how artists use different artistic styles and art forms to represent the many kinds of work it takes to build societies, both in the past and today?

K-12 Virtual Visit

Thomas Cole, Landscape (Landscape with Tree Trunks), 1828
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits

How does a landscape painting made in 1828 by English-American artist Thomas Cole both reinforce and intervene in settler-colonial ideas about the environment and Native American people?

K-12 Virtual Visit

Paul Scott, New American Scenery, 2019
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits

Why is contemporary English artist Paul Scott interested in a ceramic technique and imagery from the 1700-1800s? How does he work with transferware to comment on environmental issues and systemic racism in the United States?

K-12 Virtual Visit

Liliana Porter, For You, The Conversation, and The Offering, 2001
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits

How does Liliana Porter use objects as playful characters in her prints? How can we create scenes using our own special objects and tell stories about them?

K-12 Virtual Visit

Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Great Wave, off Kanagawa, ca.1829-1833
Educators K-12 Virtual Visits

How did Japanese printmakers and poets of the 19th century express feelings and symbolic meanings through artworks depicting nature?

Learning to Look Without Judgment

Educators Locally Made Perspectives Artist

Educator MJ Robinson reflects on student reactions to their gender presentation and shares a lesson plan inspired by artist Nick Cave’s Soundsuits to help elementary-aged students identify and challenge gender-based stereotypes.

Confronting Ourselves Together

All-Staff Dialogues at the RISD Museum
Educators Perspectives

Many museums today struggle with confronting their problematic legacies and transforming their current practices to become the diverse, inclusive institutions they aspire to be.

Drawing as Interpretation: The thousand languages of a pictograph

Educators Perspectives

Construction with Central Anchor is an image that I return to frequently with students in K-12 classrooms and in the RISD Museum.

The Joy of Looking

Family Educators

Artist educator Aja Blanc gives tips and strategies on looking at art with children.

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