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All About Art
All About Art
Grades 2- 12
Students will develop key visual literacy and creative thinking skills (such as observation, interpretation, and collective group discussion while exploring the many treasures in the Taft’s permanent collection. Each experience can be customized to meet specific educational and curriculum goals.
See and Tell
See and Tell
Grades 2 - 6
English Language Arts aligned
This program takes a closer look at the connection between visual and language arts. Students will discover how artists, like writers, use concepts like character, setting, plot, and sequence to create a narrative in works of art. Students will apply what they learn to create a zine to tell their own visual story.
Visual Language Arts
Visual Language Arts
Grades 7 - 12
English Language Arts aligned
Art reflects human experience – the people, events, emotions and more that fill our lives. The visual arts convey meaning and messages about these experiences and provide opportunities to better understand ourselves and the people and world around us.
Art Matters
Art Matters
Grades 3 - 12
Social Studies aligned
Robert S. Duncanson's Cincinnati
Robert S. Duncanson's Cincinnati
Grades 2 - 12
Social Studies aligned
This program focuses on the story of the first African American artist to achieve international prominence: Robert S. Duncanson. Students will learn Duncanson’s personal story, what his life was like in Cincinnati during the Civil War era, and how the 150-year-old murals painted on the walls of the foyer at the Taft played a part in his success.
Special Exhibition Experiences
Grades vary by exhibition
Customize your students’ experience at the Taft with our special exhibitions and create deeper engagement and learning opportunities.
Early Expressions
Description
Early Expressions is a multipart arts integration program designed to help young learners (age 4) identify and express their feelings through creative expression and unique experiences with original works of art in a museum setting. The intention is to promote social and emotional health through creative expression. Centered around core Social and Emotional Learning curricula, this program uses arts engagement to help students recognize emotions and provides them with tools and strategies, in the form of art making, to express their own emotions in a constructive and meaningful way.
Structure
Over 8 weeks, participating students work with museum educators in their classroom, visit the Taft Museum of Art, and create works of art that reflect the core, Social and Emotional Learning focus of the program.
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Art for All
AFA is the Taft Museum of Art's school outreach program. This multi-touchpoint program provides students with a richer, more layered experience that includes a museum visit, art-making experience, and classroom visits with TMA's teaching artist.
Teachers may choose an English Language Arts aligned experience, a Social Studies aligned experience, or a special exhibition aligned experience.
Each alignment is guided by essential learning questions and a broad artmaking prompt to allow for consistency across AFA experience while providing flexibility for educators regarding the specifics of their lessons.
AFA Essential Questions by Alignment and Grade Level
To participate in AFA schools must exhibit financial need defined as 50% or more students receiving reduced or free lunches.
Art For All Digital Resources
Artists Reaching Classrooms
Artists Reaching Classrooms (ARC) immerses high school students in Cincinnati's visual arts community and exposes them to careers in the visual arts and cultural sector. Students in ARC explore the Taft Museum of Art, visit artists' studios, create original works of art, and participate in a professionally organized exhibition.
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