Frida Kahlo: Mexican Icon

PBS – The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
PBS Frida Kahlo Educational Guides
The teacher's guide was specifically designed for grades 10–12 art, social studies, and language arts and includes activities involving Mexican culture and history, artistic expression, family, relationships, art movements, and women's roles.

View the Teacher's Guide for additional Lessons and post-presentation activities.

This is a 2024 K–12 educator guide from the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. It focuses in great detail on Frida's self-representation. An Educator's Guide to Frida Kahlo's (Self) Representations

A student friendly secondary reference site that includes images of many of her artworks. https://www.fridakahlo.org/

For her artwork, themes, self-portraiture, symbolism, and artistic style.MoMA has a particularly useful biography explaining how Kahlo used self-portraiture to explore identity, Mexican culture, relationships, and physical experience. It also discusses the complicated question of whether she should be considered a Surrealist. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – Frida Kahlo