Art Activities

I will collect and share ideas in this page about multicultural art education as well as classroom ACTIVITIES  and great LINKS to inspire integrating contemporary art to the curriculum.

In May 2011 I had the honor to shadow a great docent Marcia Middletown’s teen tour at SFMOMA. Marcia’s great tips for touring can be downloaded in Finnish here: Taidepelejä näyttelykäynneille

For English speaking teachers I warmly recommend:

• SFMOMA’s Online Curriculum ArtThink, www.sfmoma.org/artthink

See also: http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/explore_multimedia

•  Art21: easy to look lessons by theme, artist, concepts; great to see international artists of different backgrounds, http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/onlinelessonlibrary.html
• KQED SPARK, Spark is a weekly television series about San Francisco Bay Area artists and arts organizations. Spark‘s educational outreach platform offers media resources, substantive educator guides, and professional development training for K-12 and post-secondary educator, http://www.kqed.org/education/educators/arts.jsp
• Princeton Online, http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/highlessons.html
• ArtStor : a nonprofit digital image library/ site has also a blog that talks about ARTstor collections, tools, services & events, http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
• TED, Technology, Entertainment, Design: Well organized website “I use it every week” (Art Teacher), http://www.ted.com/
• Blackboard.com, The site lets you link what you are doing in classroom to any museum site and can be viewed by parents, students and teachers.
• Google Art, “Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces. http://www.googleartproject.com/
• Webmuseum.org, http://webmuseum.org/
• SmartHistory, free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook, http://www.smarthistory.org/

Mightymaps.com, website about how to use maps to teach social awareness of problems, attitudes an ideas. – I didn’t have time to check this out yet, but this was a suggestion from Bay area High School Teacher

Nykytaiteen ja monikulttuurisuuden mukavia yhtymäkohtia löytyy myös ja erityisesti Juutalaismuseoiden sivuilta sekä New Yorkista, että San Franciscosta:

Esimerkiksi teinit San Franciscossa pohtivat museon blogissa diasporaa ja muita varsin “vaikeita” aiheita: http://teenartconnections.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html

Museo on julkaissut myös kiinnostavaa opetusmateriaalia yläaste- ja lukioikäisille oppilaille nykytaiteesta ja kansanmurhista sekä Holokaustista (pdf):OurStruggleCurriculumResourceGuide

The Jewish Museumilla New Yorkissa on myös yleisesti mukava opas taiteen tarkasteluun: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/viewingartwithstudents

 

Other Museum sites:

• Getty, http://www.getty.edu/
• Met, http://www.metmuseum.org/
• LACMA, http://www.lacma.org/
• MoMA, http://www.moma.org/
• Smithsonian, http://www.si.edu/
• DeYoung, http://deyoung.famsf.org/
• Tate, http://www.tate.org.uk/
• Art activites about Asian cultures from Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

Planning for a gallery visit? Here are some Treasure hunts and other activities to do in art museums or in the classroom:

ArtLibSFMOMA2010

Touring Tips & ActivitiesSFMOMA

ImagesAndActivitiesSFMOMA2010

For Finnish speaking High School teachers a great place to find ideas to engage students with Contemporary art is this place: Etälukion kuvataidekurssi: Nykytaide