Amarillo Museum of Art

FSA Photography

FSA Photography explores the history of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers of the early 20th century and the impact that they have made on American culture through the advent of social realism in the field of photography. (explore...)

Collection of Dr. William T. Price

This presentation showcases the pieces owned by Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price, collectors and donors to the museum. Dr. Price's collection is considered one of America's finest private collections of Asian art. (explore...)

American Modern Art

The Amarillo Museum of Art’s extensive American Modern Art collection, with strong representation of the New York School, is the focus of their latest piece. The collection includes works by Louise Nevelson, Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Leon Polk Smith and many others. (explore...)

Dord Fitz: The Broadcast Is Always On

Over the course of his lifetime, Dord Fitz cultivated longstanding relationships with many of today’s masters of modernism, particularly those of the New York School. (explore...)

Art Museum of South Texas

Billy Hassell: Migration

Combining some of his important early works with a series of new paintings and lithographs, Migration exhibits Hassell's artistic development in his exploration of image, content, color and pattern. (explore...)

Dorothy Hood

This project focuses on a collection of paintings by surrealist artist Dorothy Hood. Hood created large-scale, exceptionally colorful abstract paintings. (explore...)

Arthouse at the Jones Center

LTL Renovation

The LTL Renovation project highlights Arthouse's building design for the renovation of the Jones Center in downtown Austin, Texas. (explore...)

Young Artists @ Arthouse

Young Artists @ Arthouse is a free program open to teenagers from underserved neighborhoods in Austin and Travis County who are interested in visual art. Over the course of a semester, the students develop a portfolio of artwork while working closely with a professional Austin-based artist who serves as their mentor and advisor. (explore...)

Cult of Color: Call to Color

Cult of Color: Call to Color is a world premiere dance work developed through an exciting collaboration featuring the work of Houston-based contemporary visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, new music by nationally acclaimed composer Graham Reynolds, and original choreography by Ballet Austin Artistic Director and choreographer Stephen Mills. This project was produced in partnership between Ballet Austin and Arthouse at the Jones Center. (explore...)

Matt Stokes: these are the days

these are the days is a commission and exhibition of new work by British artist Matt Stokes inspired by punk rock subcultures—past and present—in Austin, Texas. Stokes is the recipient of the esteemed 2006 Beck’s Futures Prize and these are the days is his first original commission and institutional exhibition in the United States. (explore...)

Austin Museum of Art

New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch

New Art in Austin features emerging artists from central Texas whose work stretches the boundaries of contemporary art. (explore...)

Lordy Rodriguez: States of America

Take a road trip with Lordy Rodriguez, who re-mapped America. His decade-long project to systematically reconfigure the United States offers viewers a fresh new look at map-based drawing with a fantastical twist. (explore...)

Outside Realism: Clifford Ross Photography

Never before seen in Austin, Ross' epic photography exposes both the peaceful and the chaotic qualities that coexist in nature. Clifford Ross has been a dedicated artist for over 30 years. (explore...)

Ballet Austin

Interpreting Contemporary Ballet

Interpreting Contemporary Ballet provides audiences with a framework for looking at dance, supported by video clips of performance and expert commentary to illustrate each concept. (explore...)

Cult of Color: Call to Color

Cult of Color: Call to Color is a world premiere dance work developed through an exciting collaboration featuring the work of Houston-based contemporary visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, new music by nationally acclaimed composer Graham Reynolds, and original choreography by Ballet Austin Artistic Director and choreographer Stephen Mills. This project was produced in partnership between Ballet Austin and Arthouse at the Jones Center. (explore...)

Curriculum Kit for Educators

This project is an interactive professional development tool for educators. Linked to a presentation about Ballet Austin’s multi-disciplinary program, The Monologue Project, the professional development component essentially functions as an online, interactive, media-rich version of the current paper-based Curriculum Kit. (explore...)

Interpreting Contemporary Dance v2.0

This piece, Interpreting Contemporary Dance v2.0, takes the project Interpreting Contemporary Ballet a step further by designing and conducting an evaluation process that assesses its clarity and usefulness as an educational piece. Ballet Austin, with dance experts, assembled a variety of small focus groups to conduct an intensive evaluation process to identify strengths and weaknesses in the current iteration. (explore...)

Hamlet: Pachyderm Development and Field Assessment

Ballet Austin's production of Hamlet was performed at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in February of 2009. Stephen Mills modernizes Shakespeare's story of love and revenge in this evocative ballet interpretation. (explore...)

Blanton Museum of Art

If These Walls Could Speak

If These Walls Could Speak combines literature and art to provide new points of access to the Blanton for the museum's public audience by investigating the museum's permanent collection through poetry. (explore...)

Collection of Greek Vases

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new interactive project that expands learning opportunities related to the Blanton’s collection of vases, both the ancient Greek black-figure and red-figure as well as the Southern Italian vases. (explore...)

The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964 – 1970

Accompanying The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964 – 1970 was an online educational resource that provided insight into the lives of the three participating artists. (explore...)

Francisco Matto

The Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin developed a new interactive website to accompany the Blanton-organized exhibition, Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic, on display at the Blanton from June through September 2009. (explore...)

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

contemporary stARTs

Contemporary stARTs is geared toward helping elementary and high school students learn about and explore contemporary art. This presentation, available in English and Spanish, presents a variety of themes from contemporary art in an engaging and approachable way. (explore...)

contemporary stARTs en Español

«Contemporary stARTs» ayudará a los estudiantes de primaria y secundaria aprender y entender arte contemporáneo. Esta presentación esta disponible en ingles y español y provee una variedad de temas de arte contemporáneo los cual es atraen de una manera interesante y accesible. (explore...)

Dallas Museum of Art

A/V: Artistic Voices

The Dallas Museum of Art conceived a two-part educational media project to digitize original material held by the museum for sharing with educational audiences; the first phase, called A/V: Artistic Voices, was completed as the DMA's minigrant project. Aligned with the museum's technology and business model (The Arts Network) and its educational mission, the project adds digital audio -- and in later phases, video -- to the Museum's web-based digital media library. (explore...)

Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin

A Different Kind of Art

ENAM is proud to be the home of a unique sculpture and sensory garden designed particularly for visually challenged visitors, but enjoyed by all. Learn about the sculptures and plant life in the garden through this interactive presentation. (explore...)

A Unique Experience for All

A Unique Experience for All is part two of the project describing the museum's sculpture and sensory garden. This presentation elucidates the experience of visually impaired visitors to the garden, representing a sculpture in the garden through the eyes of someone with a variety of visual impairments. (explore...)

Museum Manners: A Student’s Guide to the Museum

This fun interactive is geared toward educators who are planning a student group visit to the Museum. Students and teachers are introduced to the basic practices and policies of the Ellen Noël Art Museum through humorous videos. (explore...)

Frank Gervasi: Overcoming the Odds

In Frank Gervasi: Overcoming the Odds, the Ellen Noël Art Museum introduces the early 20th century artist Frank Gervasi. In this presentation, viewers learn about Gervasi’s life, his travels, how he came to settle in West Texas, and the story of how the Museum acquired twenty-two of the artist’s works. (explore...)

The Grace Museum

The Texas Scene

In 2009, the building that is home and namesake to The Grace Museum will celebrate its 100th anniversary. To honor the building and the century of Texas history it has witnessed, The Grace is curating an original exhibition of Texas art during the period 1909-1959 to be exhibited in all four main galleries simultaneously. This online guide includes The Grace's artworks as the core of the project, supplemented with loan objects, text, and video interviews. (explore...)

Art Lessons Texas Style

In 2008/2009, the Education Department of The Grace Museum added a component to the 2007/2008 Pachyderm project specifically for public schools. The focus of the new component, supported by video and online instruction, provides art activities and a printmaking lesson plan directly related to The Texas Seen for teachers. (explore...)

Kimbell Art Museum

Exploring Architecture for Educators

The Kimbell Art Museum's Education Department developed a teacher-oriented presentation featuring the Kimbell's award-winning building by architect Louis I. Kahn. This multi-media presentation promotes the study of modern architecture in the classroom through thematic commentaries, photographs, video clips, expert interviews, and lesson plans. (explore...)

McNay Art Museum

Visitor Voices

The McNay Art Museum created a presentation about Picasso's Portrait of Sylvette along with a link for visitors to tag the work, creating a folksonomy of visitor voices. In the interactive multimedia piece, viewers can engage with Picasso's work in a way rarely seen before: from the perspective of one of his models. (explore...)

Mexic-Arte Museum

From Revolution to Renaissance

From Revolution to Renaissance - Mexican Art from the Aaron Collection curated by James Oles features an important collection of modern Mexican art exhibited in the United States for the first time. The collection focuses on artwork created between the 1890s and the 1950s, with emphasis on the strands of Mexican realism promoted in the post-Revolutionary decades. (explore...)

Gift of the Gods

Gift of the Gods tells a media-rich story of the indigenous foods of Mexico, as well as the ritualistic roles and importance of food in Mexican culture. In Gift of the Gods, food and the art of cuisine is presented as a form of cultural and artistic expression. (explore...)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2006-2007 High School Multi-Visit Program

Part of the MFAH strategy to increase the education department's presence in museum galleries is to develop more activities that directly engage museum visitors and that use technology to present new interpretations of the MFAH programs, collections, and exhibitions. The MFAH created a visually-oriented, interactive program linking images, audio, video, and text related to the 2006-07 Multi-Visit Programs. (explore...)

Hie Sanno Sairei-Zu

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston produced a multimedia project about the 2009 exhibition of rare Japanese folding screens. The screens were created in the 17th-century Edo period by an unknown Japanese artist. (explore...)

Museum of Texas Tech University

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn collected artworks from a variety of periods and styles including African art, early modernist paintings, religious sculpture, and postwar paintings. Quinn also created paintings and sculptures of his own, which were inspired by his Mexican ancestry, travels to Africa, and decades of living in Europe. This presentation explores both facets of Quinn's collection. (explore...)

Pachyderm Training

or the 2008-2009 grant year, The Museum of Texas Tech University has produced a new interactive that provides information about the museum to visitors. Information about temporary and permanent exhibitions is available, along with maps, and a history of the museum. (explore...)

Nasher Sculpture Center

Museum 101: Art Exposure for Underserved Youth

Inspired by a recent re-evaluation of the importance of arts learning by area educational and cultural institutions, the Nasher Sculpture Center created a program for youth underexposed to museums and the arts called Museum 101. This program brings middle and high school students from the greater Dallas area to the Nasher for an in-depth, personally meaningful experience with the intersecting worlds of art and new media technology. (explore...)

North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts

Visions of Texas

The artists of early Texas preserved the landscapes of their regions in oil, watercolor, pastel and print media, creating a vision of Texas that extends across state lines and from their time into this. Visions of Texas explores these pieces and the story they tell of a younger Texas.

An accompanying student piece demonstrates how artists created the illusion of depth in Texas landscape paintings and poses questions about the places featured in the artworks. (explore...)

Texas Skies

Artists can tell stories in a painting. Art can bring back memories of puffy white clouds on hot summer afternoons or the sound of crickets chirping under the night sky. Texas Skies demonstrates how children can use their senses to observe their environment and to learn about early Texas art.

The matching student piece helps young people learn about colors and patterns. (explore...)

The Dignity of Work

Work is important not only as a contribution to both family and community, but also as a form of self-worth and a source of self-esteem. This unit uses the theme of work to explore the role of hard work in settling the Texas frontier, and the value of work in the Great Depression.

The student piece provides two related activities that allow students to engage with portraits of people at work and pick out important clues about the characters. (explore...)

No Deal in the New Deal:An Unrealized Mural Project

This piece examines in detail a proposal for the Longview, Texas, Post Office mural project. The mural was part of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture Relief Program for artists during the Great Depression. (explore...)

The Old Jail Art Center

European Art from the Collection of the Old Jail Art Center

This unit features works by two well known European artists and includes interactive activities for students. (explore...)

Pre-Columbian Sculpture and Asian Tomb Figures

Highlighting four Pre-Columbian sculptures and four Asian tomb figures, this unit touches on history, geography, and of course, art. (explore...)

The Elements and Principles of Art

The Old Jail Art Center created a presentation that uses the museum’s stellar permanent collection to teach basic elements and principles of art in an engaging and memorable way. (explore...)

Project Row Houses

Row House Rounds #26

The theme of Round #26 is "the people, places and things of Northern Third Ward." With the influx of new residents into the area, this round celebrated the rich history of the Third Ward community. Seven artists, both local and international, explored the community history through photography, oral history, interactive pot-luck dinners, and abstract art. (explore...)

Row House Rounds #27

For Row House Round #27, Project Row Houses addresses the difficult topics of race and class. In the face of ever-changing demographics, PRH selected artists who would create provocative site-specific works within the Artist Project Houses to spark dialogue outside and throughout the diverse Third Ward Village community. (explore...)

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The Journey of Pots

The Journey of Pots explores the history and origins of ceramic techniques from raw clay to finished works. (explore...)

Together We Will Make a Building

In September 1999, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts opened the doors to its new building located at One Love Street, a once run-down part of San Angelo. After spending more than $6 million, the building itself has come to represent a unique, meaningful piece of architecture for this West Texas community. (explore...)

Together We Will Make a Building: Student Site

As an extension of Together We Will Make a Building, SAMFA developed a student-focused component targeted for students in grades 4 and 5. This extension leads students through the story, process, and design elements of the building in an interactive, age-appropriate manner. (explore...)

San Antonio Museum of Art

Etruscan and Roman Art

This presentation tells the story of Roman antiquities as illustrated by the San Antonio Museum of Art's collection. The works of art featured in this presentation are a selection of the more than 250 objects on display in this gallery. (explore...)

Sid Richardson Museum

Defining Character

Defining Character allows elementary students to understand and interpret characters within a narrative story by investigating visual images. As a pre-visit resource, it assists students in building relevant vocabulary, establishing visual points of reference, and thinking critically about the works of art they will see on their trip to the Sid Richardson Museum. (explore...)

Cultural Connections

Defining Character allows elementary students to understand and interpret characters within a narrative story by investigating visual images. As a pre-visit resource, it assists students in building relevant vocabulary, establishing visual points of reference, and thinking critically about the works of art they will see on their trip to the Sid Richardson Museum. (explore...)

Aspects of American Indian Plains Culture

The Sid Richardson Museum crafted an online resource highlighting three important cultural connections that are available when visiting the Sid Richardson Museum. This project, Cultural Connections: Essential to Experience! assists guests in planning a visit to the Sid Richardson Museum. (explore...)

The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art

Development of a Participatory Learning Environment

The interactive portion of this site brings together information and opinions about Asian art through images of objects in the collection and archival documents. Additionally, the presentation links to a participatory learning environment offered as a part of the education section of the Crow Collection website. (explore...)

Tyler Museum of Art

Selected Works from the Laura and Dan Boeckman Collection of Mexican & Latin American Folk Art

This vibrant exhibition of contemporary folk art featuring works in a variety of mediums, including ceramics, textiles and wood carvings. The consulting curator of the exhibition, Stephen Vollmer, provides extensive historical, cultural and anecdotal information about the pieces and his experiences traveling with the Boekmans. (explore...)

Texas in My Soul: A.C. Cook and the Hock Shop Collection

The Tyler Museum of Art (TMA) chose for its 2008-2009 project an exploration of early Texas art, focusing specifically on A.C. “Ace” Cook and the Hock Shop collection. This outstanding collection of early Texas art was formed by collector Ace Cook of Fort Worth, Texas, beginning nearly twenty years ago after his chance discovery of Frances Battaile Fisk’s 1928 book A History of Texas Artists and Sculptors. (explore...)

Into the Wild: Animal Art from the Caldwell Zoo

The Tyler Museum of Art (TMA), in continuation of its implementation of the Digital Education Project for Texas Museums, created a Pachyderm presentation about pachyderms. (explore...)

University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design

Multiple Narratives in Pachyderm

Led by faculty, a research team consisting of graduate student volunteers and research assistants developed an exhibition of works from the UNT art collection. This team also engaged in the creation of online educational materials to support their exhibit. This project facilitated the exploration of the construction of meaning, object-based learning, the character of visual narratives, and exhibition narratives as cultural politics within the team. (explore...)

University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts

Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York

During the spring 2008 semester, graduate students enrolled in the museum education seminar of the Division of Visual Arts Studies and Art Education worked as a team with Dr. Melinda Mayer to produce a presentation, inclusive of video and audio segments, for an upcoming exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art. (explore...)

An American Conversation

During the Spring 2009 semester, a team of museum education students and faculty at UT produced An American Conversation, a piece that explores the cross-cultural, interrelated narratives found in the dynamic and international America/Americas galleries of the Blanton Museum of Art. (explore...)

Dallas Center for Contemporary Art

Art Think Interactive

An award-winning hallmark program existing only at the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Art Think™ can be brought into any learning environment to help young people learn to analyze art, relate it to their own lives, and develop their creative problem-solving skills. (explore...)

Southwest School of Art & Craft

History of the Ursuline Convent and Academy

The story told by wall text and archival objects in the history museum is transformed into digital form for children and young teens to access while visiting. (explore...)