Seeing Shapes and Colors is an interactive two-part educational school program that asks students to consider how paintings and sculptures use shapes and colors to communicate. The visit beings with […]
Visual Arts
Swaliga STEAMtheBlock Club
Our program delves into key concepts in engineering, sound, and light, while simultaneously integrating advanced technological skills. Depending on the specific request of the teacher based on the sample curriculum […]
The Making of Architecture
Completed in 1967, The Kreeger Museum is one of the finest examples of traditional and modernist architecture in the DC area. The Making of Architecture is a two-part educational program […]
Virtual Art Workshop: Animal Art Safari
Lions and birds and squirrels—oh my! In this virtual program, students are introduced to animal imagery in art through guided observation, discussion, storytelling, and artmaking. Students practice visual literacy skills […]
Virtual Art Workshop: Powerful Portraits
In this virtual workshop, students investigate portraiture through historical and contemporary ceramic artworks, comparing an 18th-century portrait cup of Benjamin Franklin with contemporary artist Roberto Lugo’s Good Trouble vase, featuring […]
Thinking Routine Thursday
Using Harvard Project Zero’s Thinking Routines, students learn about women artists by looking closely at several developmentally appropriate artworks, contributing respectfully to open-ended discussions; posing questions; sharing their opinions; and […]
Voices in Color: Identity, Community, and Contemporary Folk Art
Students will explore contemporary folk art, graffiti, and visual storytelling through an engaging presentation and hands-on art multi-day residency led by Washington, D.C. artist Brit Scott. Using symbols, color, layering, […]
Byzantine StatusMaxxing: Coins and Seals as Symbols of Power
Explore the history of the Byzantine Empire through an arts activity making coins or seals. Far from “falling,” the Eastern Roman Empire thrived at the crossroads of Europe and Asia […]
Trees as Witness: Ancestor, Property, Archive
Explore the layered histories of DC, from the perspective of witness trees at Dumbarton Oaks Gardens. Students will tour historic trees in the gardens and consider the history a tree […]
Bird Detectives
Armed with clipboards, binoculars, and curiosity, students are transformed into urban ornithologists in this interdisciplinary field trip. Led by an expert birder, students observe, identify, and tally birds they find […]