Teacher Resources
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ArtThink
ArtThink offers theme-based activities in visual arts, language arts, history, and social studies that provide students with an accessible look at the art of our time. Prepare your class before a museum visit with Art Basics; follow up after touring the galleries with Detail Detective; and integrate art, history, and cultural studies into your core classroom curriculum with standards-aligned activities spanning grades 4 through college.
Making Sense of Modern Art
Making Sense of Modern Art provides an engaging guide to modern and contemporary art in SFMOMA's collection. Highlights include a comparisons timeline, images of artworks, documentary photographs, and video clips of artists, curators, and critics.
Voices and Images of California Art
Now available online, Voices and Images of California Art offers in-depth portraits of eleven of California's most celebrated artists. A rich mix of video and audio clips, plus reproductions of artworks, photographs, letters, and primary source documents, reveals the arts as an integral part of our culture.
SFMOMA Artcasts
Download and listen to these creative and informative audio programs on portable MP3 players or personal computers before, during, or after your museum visit. Produced every two months, the zine-style podcasts present compelling audio pieces related to the art on view at SFMOMA from an array of artists, experts, and local luminaries. A gallery exploration segment acts as a guide through a particular exhibition and can be used to enhance a class visit to the museum. Visit our Audio page for more details.
The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds
Learn and create as you explore SFMOMA's interactive feature The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds, accessible online for use in the classroom or at home. Through adventures led by canine characters, students can learn about famous artworks in SFMOMA's collection, make a masterpiece, and get inspired! These activities were developed for students in grades 2 through 6, but may be enjoyed by all ages.
At the Museum
Teacher Resource Space in the Koret Visitor Education Center
Teachers are invited to browse the teacher resource library, talk with education staff, and access multimedia kiosks with information and video clips about artists, artworks, and art movements. Featured artists include Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, René Magritte, and many more. Videos and exhibition-related slide sets are available for loan to SFMOMA teacher members only. For more information, call the Koret Center at 415.538.2693.
In the MuseumStore
Art as Experiment, Art as Experience
This CD-ROM provides an introduction to fifteen works of painting and sculpture from the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection; audio and video footage of artists, critics, and collectors, as well as images and interactive tools, encourage closer inspection of art. May be purchased online and in the MuseumStore.
$15.95/$14.35 SFMOMA members
Voices and Images of California Art
This award-winning CD-ROM is accompanied by a curriculum guide with activities in language arts, history, and visual arts. May be purchased online and in the MuseumStore.
Classroom curriculum edition: $29.95/$26.96 SFMOMA members
Noncurriculum edition: $24.95/$22.46 SFMOMA members
Lab pack with three CDs: $49.95/$44.95 SFMOMA members
All SFMOMA education materials support the California frameworks.
