Reservations required
Free
Limit 15 teachers

Before you think of tessellations as a product of the computer age, consider the tapestries of early Islamic culture. The skills of measurement and proportion are basic tools for the artist and central to the development of visual perspective. Add your ideas to those presented at the workshop as we explore how art can enhance math lessons. Come away with a selection of the lessons created at the Resource Center that highlight the connections between art and math.

Paid tickets required
Members $80
Nonmembers $100
Limit 40 participants

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Writing can provide you with deeper insight into a work of art. It allows you to share your thoughts and ideas about a work of art, or an entire exhibition, with others or in a private journal. This three-part workshop begins with a discussion using selected art essays. At the second session, art critics Edie Newhall and Roberta Fallon discuss their approaches to writing about art, and we try to write a well-developed essay on a work from the Museum’s permanent collection. During session three, we read and discuss each other’s writing and give useful feedback to further refine our writing and looking skills.

Paid tickets required
Members $120
Nonmembers $150
Limit 20 teachers

Explore new ways to connect with twentieth-century abstract sculpture. Investigate modern and contemporary sculpture, from Constantin Brancusi to Dan Flavin, through art history lectures, gallery discussions, and hands-on studio experiences at the Fleisher Art Memorial. Learn about modern and contemporary sculpture’s relation to painting and architecture of its time, visit the Museum’s new Sculpture Garden, uncover some new personal approaches to looking at sculpture, and develop looking and discussion strategies that you can bring back to your classroom.

Paid tickets required
Members $32
Nonmembers $44
Limit: 20 teachers

One of the best ways to understand something is to try doing it. Spend the morning learning about the history of photography and view the Museum’s exhibition Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s with Peter Barberie, Curator of Photographs. Then spend the afternoon working with a photographer to create images of your own. Leave the workshop with teaching resources and strategies for bringing your experience back to the classroom.

Reservations required
Free
Limit 15 teachers

ARTstor is both a database of high-quality images for educators and a tool for classroom presentations. In this two-hour workshop, learn the basics of maneuvering through the ARTstor database. Establish your own online folder of art images and prepare presentations for your classes. Discuss connections between images and your teaching assignment. (If possible, bring a laptop as the room can accommodate Wi-Fi connections.)

Paid tickets required
Members $32
Nonmembers $44
Limit 30 teachers

Especially for teachers of pre-K–3, this workshop explores ways the visual arts can be a resource for your classroom curriculum. The program focuses on age-appropriate approaches to looking at and teaching from art, including gallery activities and discussions as well as strategies for developing meaningful studio art projects for your classroom.

Reservations required
Free
Limit 20 teachers

The visual arts present myriad opportunities to explore language-arts skills. Join other teachers to discuss strategies to engage students in the examination of theme, setting, character, and conflict, as well as basic thinking and writing skills. All participants receive a selection of the lessons created at the Resource Center that highlight the connections between art and language arts.

Reservations required

The College Board, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, presents a twoday regional fine arts workshop. Introductory and experienced training for teaching Advanced Placement Studio Art, Art History, and Music Theory classes are provided for participants. For more information and to register, please call (610) 227-2537.

Paid tickets required
Members $40
Nonmembers $50
Limit 30 teachers

In China, written records concerning shadow puppetry go back two thousand years. Closely related to Chinese opera, shadow puppetry uses delicately carved and colored animal-skin figures behind cloth screens to portray characters from literature, folktales, and religious parables. Chinese Theatre Works adapts this tradition by using overhead projectors to create live shadow performances for the classroom, with scenes and puppet figures made of paper and acetate, wire, fabric scraps and gel, found objects, kitchen utensils, and toys. Two members of the group’s Arts-in-Education staff, Stephen Kaplin and Spica Cheng, have designed the program to guide participants through the entire process of creating brief puppet productions. In addition to engaging their own creativity, participants discover ways that Chinese shadow theatre can connect to classroom curriculum.

Reservations required
Free
Limit 100 teachers

The Museum is celebrating its new teaching poster set focusing on six works of art made in Philadelphia during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Join us for a festive evening to learn more about this brand-new teaching resource and how it can enrich your classroom curriculum. Poster sets are available for sale this evening at a special discount price!

Reservations required
Free
Limit 15 teachers

This two-part workshop offers tips and techniques for bringing The Free Library of Philadelphia’s annual One Book, One Philadelphia project to your classroom. Crosscurricular connections are highlighted, as is the effective use of images to enhance lessons and presentations to your classes. Video and audio clips, as well as related works of literature and history, accompany a discussion of the book.

Paid tickets required
Members $20
Nonmembers $25
Limit 20 participants

The Museum has just reprinted its Learning from Asian Art: Japan teaching kit, which highlights Japanese works of art from the Museum’s collection. This morning workshop focuses on teaching about Japanese art and culture using the objects represented in the kit. The morning begins with a special guest lecture on Japanese art by Dr. Frank Chance, Associate Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for East Asian Studies, followed by a tour and discussion in the galleries of Japanese art. Each participant goes home with a Learning for Asian Art: Japan teaching kit for their classroom. Cost: $25 ($20 for members) Limit: 20 participants

Reservations required
Free
Limit 20 teachers

As New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the United States Senate move to adopt 21st-Century Learning Skills, the unique and central role of art emerges. Explore how enhancing traditional lessons with art images allows you to move toward twenty-first-century innovation, information, media, and technology skills. Participants should bring a mass storage drive (flash drive) so that they can download some of the interdisciplinary lessons created at the Resource Center that use art as a twenty-first-century “glue.”

Reservations required
Free
Limit 15 teachers

This workshop focuses on ARTstor’s Offline Image Viewer for effective classroom presentations. Access images from your work folder as well as other sources. Manipulate text and color and learn about ARTstor’s zoom and pan functions. If possible, bring a laptop as the room accommodates Wi-Fi connections.

Paid tickets required
Members $32
Nonmembers $44
Limit 20 teachers

Begin the day with a lecture by Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings Shelley Langdale, who will provide an overview of the history of printmaking and discuss new developments, and then walk through the exhibition The Graphic Unconscious: Tabaimo/Muñoz. After lunch you will have your own opportunity to be creative during a hands-on workshop with a print artist. Leave the workshop with teaching resources and strategies for bringing your experience back to your classroom.

Paid tickets required
Members $36
Nonmembers $45
Limit 100 teachers

Join us for an evening of Picasso and the School of Paris! Enjoy refreshments with colleagues, stroll through the Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition, then attend the exhibition-related lecture by Michael Taylor, The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art. Attending teachers also receive preparatory materials.

Reservations required
Free
Limit 20 teachers

The homeschool environment brings both challenges and opportunities. Explore how the services and materials of the Wachovia Education Resource Center can help you provide meaningful interdisciplinary experiences for your student/child through this overview of teaching kits and the ARTstor database. Come and share your best experiences and greatest challenges with other homeschool educators. Participants receive samples of interdisciplinary teaching materials created at the Resource Center.

Paid tickets required
Members $20
Nonmembers $25
Limit 20 teachers

Historic houses hold clues to who people in the past were, how they lived, and what beliefs they held. This workshop utilizes the historic houses in Fairmount Park to develop methods for teachers to uncover architectural clues and apply them to any historic house or even to students’ homes. Transportation to the park houses is provided.

Reservations required
Free
Limit 15 teachers

Part demonstration and part brainstorming session, this workshop explores the use of art in the study of history, culture, government, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences. The possible connections between art and social studies are numerous so this workshop examines the best practices in reinforcing these natural connections. Participants receive samples of the many art- and social studies–based lessons created at the Resource Center.

Paid tickets required
Members $20
Nonmembers $25
Limit 20 teachers

During meeting one, the books Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson and An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy are introduced, followed by a discussion of the books’ themes as well as the basic facts of Philadelphia’s 1793 epidemic. At the second session, the group meets at The Rosenbach Museum & Library to examine its historical insights into the epidemic. The third session highlights possible ways of using these books in the classroom.

Paid tickets required
Members $32
Nonmembers $44
Limit 20 teachers

Spend a day at the Museum taking part in a “see it and do it” workshop about painting. Explore works from the Renaissance to the present with the Museum’s education and conservation staff and learn about the history of oil painting and different techniques artists have used. Then spend the afternoon working with an artist who will lead you in creating a small masterpiece of your own. Leave the workshop with teaching resources and strategies for bringing your experience back to your classroom.

Reservations required
Free
Limit 20 teachers

Art offers many opportunities to engage students with special needs. This workshop explores the use of art activities and images in diverse special-needs classroom settings. It examines research and offers an opportunity for teachers to discuss experiences and learn techniques for working with special-needs students.