Our online and print educational resources are designed to help students and educators engage with the museum’s collections and exhibitions, and gain knowledge and skills through the close “reading” of images and interdisciplinary curriculum integration.
Julie Henry, You'll Never Walk Alone, 1999, chromogenic development print
Viewer’s Guide: Spectator Sports
Apr 12 — Jul 3, 2013
Spectator Sports explores the relationship between athlete and spectator with a particular focus on the spectator’s perspective.
Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled, Orange Scheider, Fort Worth, TX, 2000, Chromogenic print
Viewer’s Guide: Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape
Jan 11 — Mar 31, 2013
Covering seemingly every road and freeway between the coasts and beyond, artist Victoria Sambunaris has captured the vast American landscape and terrain, and its intersection with civilization.
Resources from Past Exhibitions
Framing Ideas: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Across Genres of American Photography
These genre-based curriculum guides assist educators in integrating photography into a range of arts and academic curriculum and can be adapted for most age levels. Created with funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
PDF Downloads:
Introduction: Visual Literacy
Part 1: Street Photography
Part 2: Portraiture and Representation
Portraiture and Representation Image Set
Part 3: Landscape and Place
Part 4: The Photographers of the New Bauhaus: An Expanded Vision
Part 5: Robert Frank’s The Americans: Image Culture, Personal Vision, and the “Street” Tradition
Part 6: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, and the Documentary Tradition
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