Outreach Kits
Outreach kits contain artifacts, reproductions representing the museum’s collection, and curriculum resources for teachers. Kits are loaned at no charge for 3 weeks.
- Korea curriculum guide - New Updated Version Now Available!
- China curriculum guide
- Chinese Cultural Revolution guide
- Japan curriculum guide
NEW! Teacher Resoure Sheets for JSMA exhibitions
Roger Shimomura: By Looking Back, We Look Forward
Carrie Mae Weeems: The Usual Suspects
Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective
Resistance as Power: A Curatorial Response to "Under the Feet of Jesus"
Professional Development
Upcoming Professional Development Workshops for K-12 teachers offered occasionally throughout the year:
Teacher Professional Development workshop with artists in residence,
Steve Prince and Leah Glenn
The Power of the Arts:
How Artists can Teach us about Empathy
and Community Building
Thursday, April 25
4 – 6 p.m.
RSVP: https://uoregon.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqceCrrz8sH9y1DCy87u5qsDvXgJC0M69F
Cost: Free, but registration is required.
Deadline: Register by Friday, April 12 to receive free art supplies by mail.
Open to 1st - 12th grade teachers
Join Steve Prince, Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence, Muscarelle Museum of Art at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and Leah Glenn, Professor of Dance at William and Mary University and Founder/Creative Director of the Leah Glenn Dance Theater, at a remote teacher professional development opportunity. The program, The Power of the Arts: How Artists can Teach us about Empathy and Community Building, is filled with information, ideas and discussion as well as an interactive remote art and movement experience.
Steve and Leah will share about the work they are doing in Virginia with their mile long Communal Quilt Project in Williamsburg and how you can create fabric art quilt squares and block prints to be included in a future JSMA exhibition and in the Williamsburg project.
To register for this Zoom event, hosted by the University of Oregon's JSMA, please complete your registration HERE.
This workshop has been made possible by a grant from the Donald and Coeta Barker Foundation.
Curriculum Materials
Download curriculum resources from past professional development workshops:
- Exploring Race and Identity: Classroom Connections Through the Art of Kara Walker
- VSA International Art Program for Children with Disabilities curriculum part 1
- VSA International Art Program for Children with Disabilities curriculum part 2
- A Teacher's Guide to Printmaking: A curriculum resource created in collaboration with the Coos Art Museum. Printmaking visual brainstorming worksheet.
- Understanding the Many Faces of Latin America through Art and History: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
- Thinking Through Art: A curriculum resource introducing Visual Thinking Strategies and artists, like Lesley Dill, who integrate the visual and language arts in their work.
- Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993 – 2008): A curriculum unit inspired by the work of Xiaoze Xie, a contemporary Chinese painter, that explores how artists see and comment on historic and current events through the visual arts. Lessons focus on the Cultural Revolution, newspapers and printed media, as well as issues of censorship, connecting visual art content to social studies.
- The Grand Tour: A curriculum unit on travel, community, and cartography with connections to visual art, social studies, language arts, and the performing arts.
- A Way With Words: Calligraphy and Visual Art: A curriculum unit on the art of calligraphy with connections to visual art, language arts, and world cultures. Inspired by the exhibition, A Way with Words: The Art of Jung Do-Jun
- NewArt Northwest: A curriculum unit on contemporary art with connection to environmental science, language arts, social studies, visual arts.
- Cuba Avant-Garde: A curriculum unit on contemporary Cuban art with connections to social studies, language arts, visual art and the performing arts.
- Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero: A curriculum unit on superhero comics and Japanese manga with connections to social studies, language arts and visual arts.
