El Anatsui, Ghanaian, born 1944; Fading Cloth (detail), 2005; metal bottle tops and copper wire; dimensions variable according to installation: 126 inches x 21 feet; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Minority Artists Purchase Fund, funds given by the Third Wednesday Group, Director's Discretionary Fund, and funds given by the Saint Louis Art Museum Docent Class of 2006 in honor of Stephanie Sigala 10:2007; © El Anatsui, Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
A new joint program by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and Saint Louis Art Museum.
Overview
- How do artists use their voices to tell important stories of social change?
- How can we amplify the issues we care about and create change?
AMPLIFY, a joint program by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, invites middle and high school students to explore different aspects of art and social justice through interactive tours and art-making. Explore tour offerings below!
Schools are welcome to register for one visit to a single institution or multiple visits across institutions during the school year. Please fill out a registration form for each program of interest. Transportation assistance is available.
Missouri Learning Standards for Visual Arts: VA:Cr2C, VA:Re7A, VA:Re7B, VA:Cn10A, 9-12.GV.1.PC.A
AMPLIFY: Stories of Resilience
Location: Saint Louis Art Museum
Students will explore artworks and stories that celebrate ways artists (or their subjects) have overcome obstacles, repurposed materials or ideas, or used their unique perspectives and creativity to advocate for inclusive communities and values. Following the tour, students will engage in art-making to more deeply examine themes from the tour in relation to their own lived experiences.
Transportation Assistance
The Saint Louis Art Museum provides transportation assistance to visit SLAM for qualifying schools based on need and availability of funds. Requests for assistance may be made at the same time as the request to participate in a Museum K–12 program or after receiving a tour or program registration confirmation from the Museum.
Explore Amplify tour offerings at other Saint Louis institutions below.
AMPLIFY At Other Institutions
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AMPLIFY: Building a Better World
Location: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
What moves you? What are you fighting for? These are some of the questions that visitors will consider as they move through the galleries. Inspired by Ad Minoliti’s Manifestión Pluriversal, this tour will explore the ideal worlds and societies that Minoliti along with local artists Saj Issa and Ronald Young are creating through their artworks.
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AMPLIFY: Stories of the Land
Location: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Students will learn about artworks that explore our complex relationship to the land from histories of settler colonialism and Native resistance to contemporary visions of the land amid globalization and environmental destruction. Students will collaborate on a landscape that expresses their aspirations for human-land relationships and what stories the land will tell in the future.
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AMPLIFY: Earth-Environmental Design
Location: Pulitzer Foundation
Rain gardens are a way to beautify communities, help reduce pollutant runoff from entering the water supply, and reintroduce indigenous plants and animals to the area. Through this tour, students will discuss the importance of ecologically-centered design practice and how small-scale interventions impact change in our communities.