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
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
Lesson 2: Abstract with a KAWS
Artist: KAWS
Instructor: Jessica Hole
Lesson 1: Your Room, Your Space
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Title of Inspiration Work of Art: Modern Room
Instructor: Cassidy Shaffer
Lesson 3: Fourth Dimensional Drawings
A series of object based art lessons to do at home. These projects are developed by museum educators for artists and adventuresome kids of all ages and skill levels. Tag your final art with #JSMAcreates for a chance to be featured in a virtual exhibition.
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.
Myriad Treasures
The Art Teaches learning opportunities were created with teachers, for teachers. These art-based learning opportunities are for use in the classroom, in at-home settings or in a hybrid teaching approach. Each focused curriculum can be used in its entirety or with a building-block approach, using the video tours, lesson plans and art or writing activities as needed or desired.
Ten Symbols of Longevity
The Art Teaches learning opportunities were created with teachers, for teachers. These art-based learning opportunities are for use in the classroom, in at-home settings or in a hybrid teaching approach. Each focused curriculum can be used in its entirety or with a building-block approach, using the video tours, lesson plans and art or writing activities as needed or desired.