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:
Remote Professional Development
Strange Weather: Contemporary Art in the Classroom
October 5, 2023
4 - 5:30 p.m.
Recommended for teachers Grades 3-12
Free but registration is required. 2 PDUs awarded for attendance.
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Join us for an online professional development workshop focusing on the exhibition Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, opening at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on October 21, 2023. This interactive workshop will give you a preview of the works that will be on display through April 7, 2024, including artists such as Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley and Julie Mehretu.
Explore how art from the exhibition can support classroom learning and content around themes of migration, industrialization, and contemporary issues facing society. Ideas for art and writing will be featured as part of the workshop with opportunity to create during the session.
We will also review the current exhibition, Lessons of the Hour - Frederick Douglass and the artist Isaac Julien. On view through December 10, 2023, we will discuss and share resources for teaching and presenting this powerful 10-screen video installation to students.
Learn how to become part of the Educator’s Teacher Advisory Council and receive a stipend for your contributions. There is no cost for this opportunity, but registration is required. Two PDUs will be awarded for attendance.
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.
