Collage of school kids visiting the Gibbes

Gibbes Museum Educator Resources

Through its permanent collection, the Gibbes Museum of Art is dedicated to sharing a growing anthology of artists of diverse backgrounds and life experiences with you and your students. Shining a light on the many artists of color featured in the collection is a memorable way for your class to confront changes from the past, deal with challenges in the present, and prepare for what lies ahead in the future. At the Gibbes, original research, updated methods of interpretation, and discoveries of new objects offer you an on-going opportunity to teach sensitive and challenging subjects through the visual arts each time you visit with your class.
The Gibbes Museum of Art is excited to develop more educator resources in the near future. Please check out two of our highlighted resources that focus on artist of color and women artists in the permanent collection.

Vibrant Learning: A New Look at the Gibbes Museum of Art

These resources have been created to complement your classroom instruction as a virtual introduction to the diversity of its collection or as a companion to a class visit to the Gibbes. They offer original, assessable, STEAM-related classroom lesson plans and activities for Elementary School (Grades 3-5). They are all designed to be flexible and used to best meet the needs and capabilities of your class.

Children looking at sweetgrass basket in case.

Celebrating Women Artists

This project reflects the Gibbes Museum’s long history of promoting diversity and inclusion among women visual artists. The curriculum guide facilitates “virtual learning” of the museum’s rich legacy of women visual artists for classroom instruction, teaching practices, and cultural engagement.

This packet contains teaching guides and teaching prompts as an instructional resource. The teaching guide provides biographical information about the artist and background information about the featured artwork. The teaching prompts are interdisciplinary art education lessons incorporating art history, English Language Arts, world/social history, science, and music.

Drawing of red bird with yellow and blue flowers and red dots in the background.