Educator Resources

Explore The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y. by artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Using the questions and activities provided, engage in slow looking, learn about O’Keeffe and her work, and get new ideas for your own art making.

Take a deep dive into Birthday Party by Chicago artist Margaret Burroughs. Engage in slow looking, learn about Burroughs and her work, and get new ideas for your own art making.

Profundiza en Twilight (Crepúsculo) del artista Hale Woodruff. Observa detalladamente, aprende sobre Woodruff y su obra, y saca nuevas ideas para tu propia creación artística.

Profundiza en Birthday Party (Fiesta de cumpleaños) de la artista de Chicago Margaret Burroughs. Observa detalladamente, aprende sobre Burroughs y su obra, y saca nuevas ideas para tu propia creación artística.

Join museum conservators in their laboratories as they use science to investigate and care for works of art. 

Engage with the questions for looking, ideas for making, and contextual information provided to take a deep dive into Twilight, by artist Hale Woodruff.

This lesson plan explores Bisa Butler’s work The Safety Patrol.

This lesson plan explores the use of silk over time and connects students with Chinese art and culture.

Students will follow the influence of the material cobalt and the artistic tradition of blue and white pottery to consider how people and ideas move across space and time through trade, migration, colonization, and warfare.

Students will follow the phoenix as an artistic motif, cultural myth, and symbol to consider how people and ideas move across space and time through trade, migration, and warfare.

This lesson plan focuses on a single work of art from the museum’s global collection and provides sequential activities and related resources to explore diverse perspectives on US-Japan relations, cultural identity, and visual art.

This lesson plan focuses on a single work of art from the museum’s global collection and provides sequential activities and extensions that activate students’ critical and creative thinking skills.

This dramatic canvas was painted by José Clemente Orozco during his self-imposed exile in the United States. A leader of the Mexican Mural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, Orozco painted Emiliano Zapata who had become a symbol of the Mexican Revolution.

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.

Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures represents the artist’s fusion of geometry and nature. The teak sculpture is composed of two vertical forms that are situated on a platform and punctuated by white-painted circular or oval concavities.