Try out these educational materials | NEW Sharing the Dream (PDF)
The past few months have brought many new realizations to most of us. Those at home with school-age children are learning how hard teachers work to keep their students engaged and moving forward!
Although the environment for students has certainly changed, learning can continue. Please accept our invitation to view, download, and spend time with our teacher resources listed below.
Happy browsing,
~ Your friends at MAG
Click on any of the following links that stir up your curiosity, and start learning to look and looking to learn!
MAGexplore
Use your mobile phone, tablet or computer to dig deeper into the MAG collection. This interactive, MAGexplore, will take you upstairs, downstairs and throughout MAG’s outside Centennial Sculpture Park: you now have 5,000 years of world art at your fingertips!
shown above: Aurélien-Marie Lugné-Poë (1869-1940) by Édouard Vuillard (detail), Calligraphics by Isamu Noguchi, Antelope Crest Masks, Galaxy (detail) by Fritz Trautmann
Art-Spot
Get some fresh air and explore MAG’s Sculpture with our NEWEST Art-Spot on #publicart! Download and print, or view it on your device (even works great on smartphone). How many of MAG’s outdoor artworks can you spot?
Download this PDF and see how many of the little bronzes you can find in our Sculpture Park. Artist Tom Otterness designed this sculpture installation, Creation Myth, especially for MAG’s urban art space.
MAG Gallery Guides
Originally designed for in-gallery use, these guides provide a closer look at some of MAG’s favorite objects.
Use our “teaching tips” to help you look more closely at works of art and find interesting things to talk about together:
ArtAlive
These guided looking and thinking activities were originally designed for elementary students, grades K-6:
Prepare for your in-home tour of MAG’s art collection by using these materials originally designed as pre-visits for student school tours:
Try these additional educational materials featuring some MAG favorites:
Your Treasure, Your Story
Imagine having to choose one item that is not only precious to you but also represents the special person you are. If you had to move and could only take that one thing, what would you choose? Record your ideas and see the choices made by others in MAG’s Rochester Homelands Exhibition which celebrated the rich cultural traditions people brought to Rochester in the early 20th century.
Pittsford on the Erie Canal: Seasons and Senses
Soldiers in Art: Remembering America’s Troops Through Art
Storyboard: Sketching Out a Story in Sequence
Puzzle Challenge
Puzzled by modern art? This artist’s work is like a puzzle, tiny pieces intricately assembled into complex shapes. No correct single solution here as the artist allows the museum to choose the final arrangement. Try it at home and see how many possible combinations you can discover!
Seeing | Speaking | Sharing: Let’s talk about art!
Enjoy this fun activity individually or with the entire family. Seeing | Speaking | Sharing (PDF) will guide you through discussing all that you discover in an artwork or artifact from MAG’s Permanent Collection or the world around you. Remember, so many everyday objects in your home were carefully designed and created just like the artwork at MAG!
Word Spill: An inspiration for your own verbal creativity!
Think you have anything to write about? Use Word Spill to help you focus on details of a work of art and generate the words that describe what you see, and think, and feel.
Now repeat the exercise with an object you look at every day in your home, or try it with the view out your window!
Frederick Douglass
Willie Cole
See how one African-American artist draws inspiration from traditional African art. Make old traditions, favorite objects, or stories new again just as Willie Cole illustrates through his work. He suggests bicycles can be seen as the “work animals” of today, part of a long tradition celebrating the animals in our lives. Hear Willie Cole himself in this short video!
Paper Sculpture
Better Things
Looking at works of art from MAG’s collection in new way, and based on the book, Better Things, by photographer Douglas Holleley, this resource encourages you to read images, interpret and re-interpret them, and create new works of art that speak for you.