SFMOMA Teachers

A great event with a terrific line up... happening tomorrow!

Happy birthday to Barbara Kruger, #bornonthisday in 1945! You can use artworks by Kruger in your classrooms to explore relationships between image and text.

It seems fitting on #EducationDay to acknowledge beloved San Francisco artist and staunch advocate for art education, Ruth Asawa who was #BornOnThisDay in 1926.

We’re inspired by the words of Amanda Gorman’s inagural poem The Hill We Climb and love that PBS has shared this lesson plan to support students in creating connections between this moment in history, the poet’s messages and their own lives.

Tomorrow, change comes to the United States of America as we usher in a new administration. While values and policy drive votes, political art plays a pivotable role in shaping and spreading the message of change. We invite you to explore our collection of political posters with analysis from Joseph Becker, SFMOMA's associate curator of architecture and design.

We're excited to kick off our virtual Teacher Institutes with a three-part workshop series! "What is Contemporary Art?" is presented in partnership with our friends at Art21. Register for the first workshop on November 7th, free and open to teachers located anywhere! Just sign up at the link below

Are you registered for the 20th Annual Conference Virtual Edition of Teaching for Social Justice: Solidarity in Uprisings & Crisis? Though registration for the Oct. 17th session ends today (Oct. 14th, 2020), registration will continue for November & December.

A Recommended Reading List from our pals at SFPL. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

It's #WorldStampDay and here are some artful stamps from the present and past that we hope will inspire you to send a letter today.

Check out Tinkerlab’s Democracy Art Challenge! It’s a great way to engage your students in conversations about the election using art.

An opportunity for your students! California students in kindergarten through 12th grade are invited to submit artwork or poetry with a California coastal or marine theme to the Coastal Art & Poetry Contest, presented by the California Coastal Commission. Entries can be submitted online until midnight January 31st....

Check out this amazing guide from San Francisco Unified School District to support teaching Latinx culture and heritage in your classrooms. It includes lesson plans, reading lists, multimedia resources - and even a section focused on visual and performing arts! And definitely add it to your bookmarks - the document is live and updated yearly.

Dawoud Bey's An American Project will remain open through October 12. It is not to be missed.

Over the course of our closure, staff members documented the sounds of a closed museum. These are the noises + ambient sounds they captured, from the sound of a solo stroll through the galleries, to that of a new installation coming on the horizon. http://sfmoma.me/AmbientSFMOMA

Have you heard the news?

We’re hoping you’ll tune in to watch To the Stars on SFMOMA.org. Meanwhile, here’s an interview with artist Nicole Miller about the making of the film.

Here’s a chance for you (and your students!) to see Nicole Miller’s work, To the Stars, which was commissioned specifically for Middle and High School classes. It’s on view (for free) at SFMOMA.org through September 15.

In celebration of Romare Bearden, #bornonthisday in 1911, check out our newest artwork guide