Voice Your View: Making the Connection Between Art and Literacy
Explore the connection between visual and verbal literacy while viewing and interpreting works of art. Using discussion and writing exercises, improve expository and persuasive writing skills. Emphasizes Visual Arts and Language Arts standards. Designed for grades 6-12. Accommodates a maximum of 2 classes per tour time. Click here to download pre and post-visit materials.
Tour du Jour
This program focuses on the temporary exhibitions listed below. Emphasizes Visual Arts, Social Studies and Language Arts standards. Designed for grades 6-12. Accommodates a maximum of 2 classes per tour time.
Jerry Pinkney: Aesop's Fables and Other Tails
05.10 - 11.01.09
Explore multicultural stories and original illustrations by the award-winning illustrator of Aesop’s Fables, Uncle Remus Tales and Black Cowboy, Wild Horses. Click here to download Pre and post-visit materials.
Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940
04.10.10 - 07.08.10
Drawn from the Bank of America Collection, the 125 works in the exhibition, by a diverse group of more than 75 artists, trace not only the development of Impressionism in the United States but also the emergence of a truly American style of painting. Click here to download Pre and post-visit materials.
Nature and Spirit: American Landscape Painting and Without a Trace: Artists Imagine a World Without Us
01.09.2010 – 03.21.2010
Students compare traditional works of art of the 19th and 20th centuries with contemporary prints, paintings and sculpture that explore the changing American landscape and related issues of conservation, based on the book by Alan Weisman, “The World Without Us.”
Intended For
- Teachers