Education
Teacher Guides
Teacher Guides to current exhibitions and museum themes are designed to help educators make connections between art, artists, museums, and the classroom. Including exhibition information, images, discussion questions, multidisciplinary activities, and related resources, the guides are available online (click below), by request, and at our seasonal Educators’ Evenings.
Spring 2013
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Winter 2013
Permanent Collection Installations
Fall 2012
Visualizing Community
American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942
Spring 2012
Identity, Role Play, and Expression
Winter 2012
Artists and Place
Fall 2011
Commemoration, Perspective, and Parts of a Whole
Winter 2011
Exploration and Documention: Art as Research/Research as Art
Fall 2010
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years Teacher Guide
Fall 2009
Collections + Museums: Communicating Cultural Value
Spring 2009
Reality and Representation: An Exploration into Intention, Perception, and History
Winter 2009
Teacher's Guide: Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, and Beyond: A Study of Motion and Time, Session One
Teacher's Guide: Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, and Beyond: A Study of Motion and Time, Session Two
Fall 2008
Teacher's Guide: Developing Photography & Writing Projects Inspired by Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey
Spring 2008
Then and Now and Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Winter 2008
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
What Can Art Tell Us? Teacher's Guide to the Permanent Collection
Fall 2007
Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey, The Discerning Eye, Ipswich Days, and Angela Lorenz
Spring 2007
William Wegman: Funney/Strange
An Impressionist Legacy: Lawrence's White Fund Paintings
Winter 2007
Models as Muse, Kara Walker, and Wheeler Survey
Fall 2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s and Jennifer Bartlett: Early Plate Work
Wendy Ewald: American Alphabets
Spring 2006
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography, 75 Years of Giving, and Artist's Project: Type A
Winter 2006
Portraits of a People, Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, and Beverly McIver
Fall 2005
Little Women, Little Men and Child's Play
Chuck Close Prints and Oscar Palacio
Spring 2005
Eye on the Collection: Copley to Hopper
Spring 2005
Over+Over, Art and Craft, and Classic Modern
Winter 2005
Alexis Rockman: Manifest Destiny
Winter 2005
Girls' Night Out