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Fall Evening for Educators
Join us for an evening to celebrate educators! Learn about resources and opportunities at the Museum; participate in art making, guided tours, and sound meditation activities; socialize with other teachers; and pick up a free classroom activity kit inspired by the exhibition The Work of Art: The Federal Art Project, 1935–1943, which includes supplies for students to create postcards related to their own St. Louis stories. Teachers or students can submit these postcards to the Museum to be installed in the Museum’s Student Gallery.
Light refreshments will be provided. Drinks available for purchase. All visitors are invited to also enjoy the evening’s Access for All Free Friday events.
Admission is free, but advance registration is requested.
Event Schedule:
4:30 pm: Check-in table opens in Sculpture Hall – visit this table for event information, resources, swag, and to pick up The Work of Art Delivered: Art Resource and Activity Kit
4:30-7:30 pm: Drop-in artmaking with Perennial and refreshments in the Education Center
4:30-7:30 pm: Postcard making in Gallery 235
5 pm and 6 pm: Sound Meditation with artist and teacher Simiya Sudduth in Gallery 251
6:30 pm: Guided, interactive tours related to STEAM, Storytelling in Art, and other tour themes
7:30 pm: Event Ends
The Work of Art: Delivered
Art Resource and Activity Kit
The Work of Art: Delivered resource and activity kit is designed to help foster classroom engagement with artworks created by artists, including youth aged 7-15, who participated in the Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943. The kit includes 14 postcard-sized reproductions of artworks from the Museum’s collection, prompts designed to help students engage with these artworks, and a related art-making activity. Additionally, educators receive a link to corresponding digital resources.
The artwork selection and conversation prompts have been designed with youth in mind. You may adapt to other audiences and age groups in whatever ways are most appropriate.
Emmett Erskine Jones, American, 1928–2018; The Art Center, 1938; poster paint on brown paper; 12 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration 382:1943
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation's Access for All program.
