School Programs

Ongoing School Programs

Portraiture
offered continually
School Level: Grades 3-12

Participants in this guided program will closely examine significant portraits in the Museum's permanent collection, comparing and contrasting a diverse range of artist techniques and depictions of the human form through the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Works currently on display include paintings by Thomas Eakins, George Bellows, Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Philip Guston, as well as contemporary works by Glenn Ligon and Christian Boltanski, among others. School and youth groups will also have the opportunity to include a hands-on activity in the gallery. Using exploratory sketching to experiment with both realistic and abstract techniques, they can create their own portrait during the visit to the Museum.


Landscape
offered continually
School Level: Grades 3-12

Participants in this guided program will closely examine significant works of landscape in the Museum's permanent collection, comparing and contrasting a diverse range of artistic techniques through the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Works currently on display include paintings by George Caleb Bingham, Frederic Church, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, James Ensor, and Lyonel Feininger, as well as more recent photographic works by Alan Sekula and Spencer Finch, among others. School and youth groups will also have the opportunity to sketch in the galleries and create an original landscape during their visit to the Museum, experimenting with both realistic and abstract techniques in representing the world around us and our relationship to it.