Academic and Education Resources
The JSMA is open for collaboration, creativity, and education. We are ready to work with you on your remote teaching needs!
On request, we can provide or create:
- Live, real-time video conversations with your class and museum staff
- High-resolution images (when available) from the collection, current exhibitions, and the Shared Visions program
Collections: Access a World of art and ideas
The museum’s collection includes over 18,000 works of art. Would you like to access artwork not on view? You can arrange for work to be presented in our Gilkey Research Center that will deepen your students’ understanding of course materials or support independent research. Our collections are also accessible online.
Shared Visions: Accessing private collections with JSMA
Access the art of internationally recognized artists from around the world from private holdings. Through our Shared Visions program, we are able to bring masterworks to the public for a limited viewing period. Past and present works are accompanied by a Resource Guide and discoverable in our Shared Visions online database.
Exhibition Resources: Enhance your experience
Discover our current and past exhibitions and explore the resources created for them (virtual tours, videos with the artist, catalogues and more) which you can use in your class.
Online Resources
Catalogues & Publications
A number of JSMA exhibitions over the years have Publications or Catalogues associated with them
You can explore these on our Collections site, either by year of exhibition or by the title.
Teaching Resource Guide to Teaching Art
A curriculum resource introducing Visual Thinking Strategies and artists, like Lesley Dill, who integrate the visual and language arts in their work.
Latin America Teacher Resource Guide
This project represents a collaborative effort by faculty and staff at the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to address the increasing diversity—in terms of race and ethnicity—of Oregon’s public schools, in order to be able to understand and to incorporate such growing diversity in an enriching way in the classroom.
Teaching Guide to Printmaking
This Teacher's Guide uses A Distinguished Line as a point of departure to create a comprehensive manual for teachers in our state to visit the printmaking collections at The Coos Art Museum. Teachers will find an overview of the history of printmaking processes, as well as image guides and lesson plans that are meant to complement Oregon State Educational Standards.
VSA International Art Program for Children with Disabilities
A series of visual art lesson plans designed to engage students with disabilities.
Exploring Race and Identity Educator's Guide
Classroom Connections Through the Art of Kara Walker
Japan Curriculum Guide
This kit is intended to provide you and your students with an opportunity to learn about Japanese art through multiple disciplines and to teach several subjects using Japanese art as a didactic tool.
Chinese Cultural Revolution Guide
Included in this packet are a variety of lesson plans and resources that approach learning from different angles. Through these lesson plans, we hope to cover a multitude of learning and teaching styles to maximize the creative learning potential of both students and teachers.
Chinese Curriculum Guide
This outreach kit is intended to provide you and your students with an opportunity to learn about Chinese art through multiple disciplines and to teach several subjects using Chinese art as a didactic tool.
Korea Curriculum Guide
These resources include a Teacher Resource Guide and a Curricular unit about Korea. They have recently been updated.
Resistance as Power: A Curatorial Response to "Under the Feet of Jesus"
A visitor's guide to "Under the Feet of Jesus."
Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective
"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side." - Ralph Steadman
Carrie Mae Weeems: The Usual Suspects
Weems addresses the constructed nature of racial identity— specifically, representations that associate black bodies with criminality and the resultant killings of black men, women, and children without consequence.
Roger Shimomura: By Looking Back, We Look Forward
"Art has a way of exercising every part of what it is to be a human being, a feeling human being, from the intellectual to the emotional to the political." - Roger Shimomura
Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments
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.