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School and Teacher Programs
We invite you to use the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as a teaching resource and extension of your classroom. Learning through art is a powerful way to enhance the curriculum at every grade level and across subject areas. Using a discussion-based approach and a blend of Visual Thinking Strategies as well as thinking routines, we invite students to learn how to look. The development of critical thinking skills has come to be recognized as an essential component in the education of young people and is at the heart of the new Common Core standards. Learning to look at art helps students develop the kind of skills that are essential for success across curriculum and throughout life: helping them to become college and career ready. Within the framework of these facilitated discussions, students take on increasingly complex ideas as they move through grade levels and show significant improvement in associating, comparing, and contrasting, flexible thinking, supporting a hypothesis with relevant evidence, and most strongly, observing and interpreting as they construct both their own and shared knowledge.
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Upcoming Events
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Young Girl in Pursuit (detail) by Marc Chagall. © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Teacher Resource Center Grades K through 6
2011 - 2012 Programs Brochure
Teacher Guides
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Frederick Hammersley; born and died United States, 1919-2009; Left Field #8, 1964; oil on chipboard. Gift of the artist.
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Teacher Resource Center Junior High and High School
2011 - 2012 Programs Brochure
Teacher Guides
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School Tours
Art holds endless possibilities for engaging students in meaningful learning. We hope you will use the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as a resource for enhancing your lesson plans and your students' lives. To find out how to visit the Museum with your class, call Amanda Garcia at 805.884.6457 or email agarcia@sbma.net
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Young at Art
Grades K through 2
Tuesdays, October 2011 - June 2012
10:30 am - 12 noon
Fully booked for the 2011-2012 school year.
Young viewers discover the elements of art during a Playdate with Line, Shape, and Color, where they create their own group compositions in the Museum’s Luria Activities Center, and become art detectives while exploring the galleries with a Teaching Artist. Contact Rachael Krieps at 884.6441 or email rkrieps@sbma.net.
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ArtReach: Multivisit Outreach Program
Five in-classroom lessons, taught by an artist-teacher, are followed by a Museum tour. Lessons emphasize the materials and methods that artists use, and the cultural context in which their works are produced. For more information, contact Rachael Krieps at rkrieps@sbma.net.
Fully booked for the 2011 - 2012 school year. For more information on participation in future years, contact Rachael Krieps at 805.884.6441 or rkrieps@sbma.net.
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SBMA at School
In response to requests from both parent groups and principals, we are pleased to offer a full menu of after school classes to local elementary schools in the coming academic year. SBMA-trained Teaching Artists will lead standards-based classes relating to the Museum’s collection and special exhibitions on your school campus. In addition to teaching art making techniques, these classes incorporate Visual Thinking Strategies, which use art to help develop critical thinking, communication skills, and visual literacy.
Please contact us about bringing this enrichment opportunity to your school for 2011-2012.
For more information, call 805.884.6441 or rkrieps@sbma.net.
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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art gratefully acknowledges the generosity of our donors for their contributions to the Museum’s Education Programs: Shelby Bowen, Fred Brander, Bank of America, Business First Bank, California Arts Council, Margaret A. Cargill Foundation, The Cheeryble Foun¬dation, Citrix Online, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Katherine & Dan Gunther, Audrey Hillman Fisher Foundation, The Hearst Endowed Fund for Education, Kisa Heyer, Cyndee Howard, Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Junior League of Santa Barbara, Kirby-Jones Foundation, Lillian Lovelace, Mar¬ilyn Magid, Montecito Bank & Trust, Mosher Foundation, Steven Moya, Orfalea Foundations, Rid¬ley-Tree Foundation, Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, Santa Barbara Foundation, Santa Barbara Police Activities League, Nancy Schlosser, SBMA smART Families, Vicki and Patrick Stone, The Towbes Foundation, Town & Country Event Rentals, Venoco, Inc., Hugh & Susie Vos, The Elizabeth Firth Wade Endowment Fund, The Wine Classic Foundation Board, and an anonymous donor.
 
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