Students, teachers, and chaperones explore the museum’s culturally diverse collection and discover the imaginative ways artists use materials. Storytelling, artmaking, movement, and tactile activities inspire students to experience art in a new way and support relevant connections to the classroom.

“We LOVED IT!!!!!!!! The museum guides were stellar to say the least, the content very appropriate, and the timing was perfect .The kids seemed very engaged and I can't wait to recap their experience with them and see how to expand on it in the classroom.” – L. Wilhelm, Pre-K teacher

Breakdown of standards:
21st Century Skills Addressed:
• Critical Thinking and Reasoning
• Collaboration
• Self-Direction
• Invention
2009 Colorado Academic Standards Addressed:
• Visual Arts - Observe and Learn to Comprehend; Envision and Critique to Reflect; Invent and Discover to Create; & Relate and Connect to Transfer
• Mathematics - Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships
• Reading, Writing, and Communicating - Oral Expression and Listening; & Research and Reasoning
• Music - Aesthetic Valuation of Music
• Dance - Historical and Cultural Context; & Reflect, Connect, and Respond

March 15th-June 7th 2020

Take your students on a journey to explore how two American artists helped shape a national identity that valued self-reliance, independence, and perseverance.

This exhibition of the art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington will captivate your students and provide opportunities to view both artists’ most iconic paintings and sculptures, as well as explore their careers as wartime reporters and illustrators and their fascination with man’s relationship to wilderness.

Big Idea Classroom Connections:
This exhibition will help explore the following thematic concepts that could connect to your classroom-The Civil War, Spanish American War, American identity, and our connections to the land.

The DAM’s global art collection provides a visually stimulating environment with the power to spark creative thinking and hone observation skills. Participatory games, collaborative activities, and prompts for inquiry lead students through a fun exploration of color, material, imagination, and story to see art in a new way. All activities can be easily brought back to the classroom to continue students’ close looking and collaboration.

Breakdown of standards:
21st Century Skills Addressed:
• Critical Thinking and Reasoning
• Information Literacy
• Collaboration
• Self-Direction
• Invention

2009 Colorado Academic Standards Addressed:
• Visual Arts - Observe and Learn to Comprehend; Envision and Critique to Reflect; & Relate and Connect to Transfer
• Reading, Writing, and Communicating - Oral Expression and Listening; Reading for All Purposes; & Research and Reasoning
• Science: Physical Science - Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy
• Mathematics - Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability; & Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships

Students will examine how illustrators in the 1940s and beyond became important storytellers who advanced important civic ideas through their creative advertising and images in this exhibition featuring Norman Rockwell and his contemporaries. The exhibition culminates in Rockwell’s depiction of the Four Freedoms as defined in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 speech of the same name.

The exhibition narrative showcases Rockwell’s war-era artworks that reinforced the positive approach of bringing Americans together for the common good.

Grades 3 - 6
Students investigate art across cultures and time, forming their own opinions through examination and collaboration. Transformative gallery conversations reveal that no two people see precisely the same thing. Testing visual memory, drawing comparisons, identifying differences, and evaluating art provide many different ways to engage with art, have fun, and support student development.

Breakdown of standards:
21st Century Skills Addressed:
• Critical Thinking and Reasoning
• Information Literacy
• Collaboration
• Self-Direction
• Invention

2009 Colorado Academic Standards Addressed:
• Visual Arts - Observe and Learn to Comprehend; Envision and Critique to Reflect; & Relate and Connect to Transfer
• Reading, Writing, and Communicating - Oral Expression and Listening; Reading for All Purposes, & Research and Reasoning
• Science: Physical Science - Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy
• Mathematics - Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability; & Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships

Explore the DAM’s distinctive architecture and culturally diverse art collection. Throughout the tour, students discover artists’ creativity over time and across cultures, making comparisons and connecting with human stories through art.

Breakdown of standards:
21st Century Skills Addressed:
• Critical Thinking and Reasoning
• Information Literacy
• Collaboration
• Self-Direction
2009 Colorado Academic Standards Addressed:
• Visual Arts - Observe and Learn to Comprehend; Envision and Critique to Reflect; & Relate and Connect to Transfer
• Reading, Writing, and Communicating - Oral Expression and Listening; Reading for All Purposes; & Research and Reasoning
• Social Studies: History - Evaluate and analyze sources using historical method of inquiry and defend their conclusions; Analyze the concepts of continuity and change and effect; Analyze the concept of complexity, unity and diversity; Understand the concept that the power of ideas is significant throughout history; Become familiar with United States historical eras, groups, individuals, and themes; Become familiar with Eastern Hemisphere historical eras, groups, individuals, and themes; Become familiar with Western Hemisphere historical eras, groups, individuals, and themes
• Social Studies: Geography - Use geographic tools to research, gather data and ask questions about geography; Understand geographic variables and how they affect people; Become familiar with world geography
• Science: Physical Science - Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy Mathematics - Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability; & Shape, Dimension, and Geometric Relationships

The DAM can provide teachers with a museum resource orientation in which a representative from DAM’s staff will be present and provide a 15-20 minute overview of the programmatic offerings for Schools and Teachers. These groups will then be allowed to occupy a room for up to 4 hours and have AV support (when available). Groups will also have access to the galleries, if within normal operating hours, for a self-directed half-day professional development opportunity.
4 weeks advanced notice requested. All bookings are dependent on availability and on a first come, first served basis.

This guided teacher workshop experience offers a 1- to 2-hour training utilizing the Denver Art Museum’s collection and teacher resources presented by a team of museum educators. The team will also provide an overview of the programmatic offerings for Schools and Teachers.
Training topics currently offered:
• Artist-Inspired Installations
• Art + Literacy (e.g. Look to Read and Create to Write for Early Childhood audiences)
• Spark with Art (e.g. Art Objects for Dialogue, Projects and Evaluation)
Cost: Per teacher for workshop and access to galleries. Additional cost if selected workshop includes a special ticketed exhibition; not included in membership. Email for details.
8 weeks advanced notice required. All bookings are dependent on availability.