Educator Resources

Artist Marc Chagall began working on his design for the windows in 1976, America’s bicentennial year, and constructed the windows as a tribute to the freedom of artistic expression enjoyed by the people of the United States.

This creative activity combines your looking and listening skills to make connections between music and works of art. 

Much can be learned about a culture and the way they view the world by studying the images they create.

Put your judge’s hat on! This activity uses your close looking and comparison skills to analyze works of art. 

A cinquain is a five-line poem. Some forms of cinquain poetry follow specific rules regarding patterning and number of syllables per line. This activity will follow the guidelines for a didactic cinquain poem. 

This activity helps you practice close looking and describing what you see. 

Charles Wilbert White depicted the dignity of rural labor with two powerful figures. The contours of scythe, hat brims, and forearms echo the curves of the horizon and clouds, portraying these workers in harmony with the landscape.

Bring your ideas to life—create your own story using details from two works of art. 

Looming in the center of Peter Blume’s painting is a monumental rock, fractured yet enduring, a powerful symbol of humanity’s tenacity and capacity to survive. Men and women struggle to go on living and rebuilding in this postwar scene of destruction.

Barbara Kruger is known for works that provocatively integrate photographs and text. Her art reveals and challenges the ways in which images used in the commercial media often perpetuate stereotypes, objectify women, and encourage conformity.

The purpose of this activity is to use clues from works of art to make inferences about characters. 

This suit of ceremonial armor includes more than 22 pieces that could be mixed for parade and sporting tournaments. Students will learn about the production and functions of armor and about the role of the knight in 16th-century Europe.

“HOP!” You are now in the scene. Use all of your senses to explore as work of art. 

What new understandings and ideas can we create when we look closely, ask questions, and make connections with works of art? 

What more can we learn about the past by “talking” to the people depicted in works of art? This activity uses your observation skills and imagination to help you learn more about a work of art and the time period when it was created.