The museum's Education Department offers an engaging variety of programs and hands-on experiences for diverse audiences. From first-time museum-goers to scholars and collectors, from pre-schoolers to senior citizens, from families looking for leisure-time activities to teachers seeking instructional resources, the JSMA is an environment that encourages discovery, learning, and dialogue.
In addition to its exhibition galleries, the museum’s facilities include an Art Studio and Interactive Discovery Gallery. These spaces present an interactive environment for visitors of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities and are designed to provide both hands-on engagement and skill development as well as self-directed insightful learning opportunities.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art's Education and Outreach Programs are supported in part by the Cheryl and Allyn Ford Educational Outreach Endowment Fund.
ArtsBridge is an arts education and outreach program of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, a satellite program for ArtsBridge America. ArtsBridge provides stipends to qualified UO students, graduate and undergraduate, to conduct arts-related workshops in art, dance, drama, music, and digital arts to the Lane County community. Many ArtsBridge scholars go into county K-12 schools, to teach classes with a supervising teacher or lead after-school clubs. ArtsBridge scholars also work with pediatrics patients and with not-for-profit youth organizations.