menu for exhibitions page. click to go to the calendar page.

 

paper figure

paper figure with words

detail of installation showing landscape growing under a bubble

a classroom demo,

demo after growth appears

 

 

Teacher Resources

Pre-visit and post-visit materials are available for classrooms to prepare your students for a visit to specific UAM Exhibitions. The activities and the museum visit support interdisciplinary learning by connecting the visual arts, based on the Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards for California Public Schools, to other core curriculum area.

1.0 Artistic Perception
2.0 Creative Expression
3.0 Historical and Cultural Context
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing
5.0 Connections, Relationships, Applications

III:01.22.2009
PAUL SHAMBROOM PICTURING POWER

Designed to support the exhibition Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power, on view in the museum from January 22 through April 5, 2009, this activity will prepare your students for the exhibition and presents some of the artist’s most popular themes such as democracy, authority, and power.

II:09.04.2008
art/tapes/22

These materials were designed to support the exhibition art/tapes/22 that was on view at the UAM from September 4 - October 19, 2008. For more information please visit the past exhibtions page.

I:01.24.2008
Lothar Schmitz: Survival Strategies

These materials were designed to support the exhibition Lothar Schmitz: Survival Strategies. Lothar Schmitz, artist and physicist, was born in Germany and relocated to California in 1984. His large scale installations straddle the worlds of science, art, and alchemy, continuously re-examining how technology has changed our interaction with nature. Go to the past exhibitions page for an overview of the exhibition.

 

To Download the Education Resources the corresponding exhibitions (pdf files) click on the numbers.