MAG now offers exciting new ways to bring our collection to life and to connect students and teachers with art from around the world! We have developed a great way to offer synchronous virtual tours for students in grades K-12. These virtual tours will be facilitated by a MAG educator or docent via a video conferencing platform during regular school hours.
Animals in Art (PDF)
Let MAG help you integrate art into your teaching, from wherever you and your students are! Slideshows of artworks from MAG’s collection with guiding questions engage critical thinking skills, make curriculum connections, and inspire many other possible activities.
Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA, Science, Social Studies
Grade Level: Elementary
How do artists tell stories? Look for clues to setting, characters, plot, action, and outcome in artworks, and use critical thinking skills to “read” the story in a work of art. Developed especially for 3rd and 4th grades by MAG and the Rochester City School District.
Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA
Grade Level: Elementary
Trace the numerous styles, themes and materials explored by artists of many cultures using representative artworks in the Gallery’s collection. Tours may focus on any aspect of art history; please discuss your objectives and plans with the docent during the pre-visit call.
Curriculum Connections: Art
Grade Level: Secondary
Follow the stories of upstate New York, Rochester, and the Memorial Art Gallery itself through artworks in the Gallery’s collections. Portraits, landscapes and decorative objects all provide a glimpse into aspects of American life in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA, Social Studies
Grade Level: Elementary, Secondary
What is an art museum? What can you learn by looking at an artwork? Students of all ages explore the Gallery’s collections through finding details, learning new vocabulary and sharing their own observations.
Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA, Social Studies
Grade Level: Elementary, Secondary
Travel through time and space and hone observational skills on a cross-cultural world tour. Come face-to-face with artworks such as masks, paintings and statues representing cultures from major world regions, including the Arctic, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, ancient Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa.
Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA, Social Studies
Grade Level: Elementary
Explore universal themes of civilization such as writing, religion, and burial customs through artworks and artifacts 500 to 5,000 years old, representing the MAG’s Mesopotamian, Egyptian, East Asian, Greek, Roman and Medieval, and Renaissance European collections.
Curriculum Connections: Art, Social Studies (Grades 6, 9, AP World History)
Grade Level: Secondary
“Listen” to artworks with a story to tell, “hear” how culture influences art and “see” how beliefs and stories pass down through narrative and symbolic art. Compare and contrast ancient beliefs and living traditions from diverse cultures, including Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Curriculum Connections: Art, ELA,Social Studies
Grade Level: Secondary
The Memorial Art Gallery’s 2020-21 School Programs are sponsored by the William and Sheila Konar Foundation, the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Doug and Abby Bennett, the Wan Jou Family Foundation in memory of Shi-Ling C. Hsiang, the Waldron Rise Foundation, the ESL Charitable Foundation, Anne O’Toole, Jody and Bob Asbury, Wegmans, Rosemary Christoff Dolan, Deborah G. Goldman, and three anonymous donors. Funding is also provided by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Additional support for School Programs is provided by the Docent Endowment Fund, the Emma Jane Drury Education Fund, the Louis D’Amanda III Endowment, the Joanna M. and Michael R. Grosodonia Fund, and the Frank Grosso and Diane Holahan Grosso Fund.
The McPherson Director of Academic Programs is partially endowed by an anonymous donor and supported by the Joan Feinbloom School Programming Fund. Support for the Estelle B. Goldman Assistant Curator of Academic Programs is provided by the Estate of Estelle B. Goldman.
