StoryScapes is a creative virtual workshop where students bring stories to life through 3D model-making. Using simple materials they’ll explore character, setting, and plot, then build miniature scenes that reflect […]
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 […]
Making of Architecture
Making of Architecture is a two-part educational school program which features a tour of the Museum and a hands-on workshop. Students will begin with a tour of the museum in […]
Seeing Shapes and Colors
Seeing Shapes and Colors is a two-part educational school program that asks students to consider how paintings and sculptures use shapes and colors to communicate. The visit includes a tour […]
Glow-box Shadow Storybook
This program introduces students to storytelling through light, shadow, and layered depth. During a guided exploration, students examine how artists create dimension and mood using cutouts, perspective, and illumination. In […]
Garden Detectives: Buzzing Bees and Flowers Growing!
Students will use their senses, inquiry-based learning, and a participatory experience to learn about flowers and pollinators as well as the garden as a whole here at Tudor Place. Students […]
Byzantine Medallions: Power in your Hands
Explore the history of the Byzantine Empire through an arts activity making coins or seals. Far from “falling,” the Eastern Roman Empire, which we call Byzantium, continued to thrive at […]
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 & consider the history a tree […]
Garden Journeys
Explore the enchanting Japanese-style garden and French parterre and compare and contrast the style of these two very different landscaped gardens. Use your senses to observe each garden closely and […]
Virtual Art Workshop: Animal Art Safari
Lions and birds and squirrels—oh my! In this virtual program, students search for animals as they explore Hillwood’s art through playful looking activities, led by a museum educator via live […]