Art Express

We are not currently scheduling Art Express visits to the classroom at this time.

We will provide updates here as we have new information to report. Be sure to check our Teacher Resources page for art projects, artist-designed activities, videos, animations, and discussion questions you can use with your students to explore artworks from SFMOMA’s collection.

Questions? Please contact the School Visits office at schoolvisits@sfmoma.org.

Designed for grades K–6, this program brings Museum Guides to the classroom to lead a hands-on art activity exploring a featured artist and artwork from the museum’s collection. During each session, Museum Guides use posters or projected images to introduce students to works from SFMOMA’s collection, along with a book carefully selected to align with the featured artist or a video from the series The Country Dog Gentlemen Travel to Extraordinary Worlds. Art Express aims to build on classroom learning: it addresses ELA Common Core State Standards, including critical-thinking and analytical skills, while developing content knowledge. The program is free of charge.

Art Express is generously supported by Deborah and Kenneth Novack.

Face to Face (grades K−6; length: 45 minutes)

For centuries, artists have depicted people in their art. Sometimes the people represented are the artist’s friends or family; other times they are strangers or celebrities; and, of course, the artist’s own face is always an available subject. Frida Kahlo, René Magritte, or Andy Warhol may be featured.

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Transforming the Everyday (grades 3–6)

Artists often incorporate elements of the everyday into their art, infusing objects with new and symbolic meaning in order to represent themselves or issues they want to address. Louise Bourgeois, Jackson Pollock, or Robert Rauschenberg may be featured.

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