K-12 Virtual Visits

Description

Bring the museum to your students through virtual visits. Lead your own lessons with guidance using recorded videos, outlines of lesson plans, and related PowerPoints. Check back here for new lessons. To learn about more virtual opportunities such as scheduling live Virtual Visits and Teaching Notes, go to Connect through art anywhere.

 

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?