For Teachers
The Arkansas Arts Center offers a variety of opportunities for classroom teachers - elementary to college level - to enhance and enlarge their student's exposure to art.
Workshops
There are currently no workshops available. Please visit us later for future postings.
Curriculum Resources
To provide teachers with the resources needed to enhance the Arts Center experience, several curriculum guides are available for exhibitions, programs and Children's Theatre.
ONLINE COLLECTION: For students and researchers, to access the Online Collection, click here.
2007-08 ARTMOBILE CATALOG: To view the online version of the current Artmobile catalog, click here.
To view the 2007-08 ARTMOBILE PREVIEW AND ACTIVITY GUIDE, click here.
TELL-A-TALE TROUP PREVIEW AND ACTIVITY GUIDES:
 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Preview and Activity Guide. - Click Here
Ben Franklin Flies a Kite Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
Children's Theatre Preview and Activity Guides:
The Ugly Duckling Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
The Boxcar Children Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
Hercules Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
Ramona Quimby Preview and Activity Guide - Click Here
Videotapes
A number of videotapes are available to teachers without a fee. The series for which we have selected individual titles include:
| Portrait of an Artist |
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(6th grade to adult: Chagall, O'Keeffe, Matisse and others) |
| Museum without Walls |
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(8th grade to adult: The Greek Temple, Goya, The Cubist Epoch and others) |
| National Gallery of Art |
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(6th grade to adult: Paul Gauguin, Light of the Gods, A Treasury of Masterpieces and others) |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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(6th grade to adult: In a Brilliant Light: van Gogh in Arles, Glories of Medieval Art: The Cloisters, and others) |
| Civilisation with Lord Kenneth Clark |
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(8th grade to adult: volumes 1-7) |
| Art of the Western World |
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(6th grade to adult: volumes 1 - 9) |
The collection includes a number of titles about individual contemporary artists. A brief list includes:
- Roy Lichtenstein: Reflections
- Salvador Dali: A Soft Self-Portrait
- Mobile by Alexander Calder
- Christo's Running Fence
- Andrew Wyeth: Self-Portrait: Snow Hill
- Chihuly: Glass Master
We are also fortunate, in part through the support of the Arkansas Humanities Council, to have added a number of titles associated with African-American history and culture and nineteenth and twentieth century African America artists. A partial list includes:
- The Life and Art of William H. Johnson
- Betye & Alison Saar: Conjure Women of the Arts
- Romare Bearden: Visual Jazz
- Jacob Lawrence: A Glory of Expression
- Robert Colescott: The One Two Punch
- African-American Artists: Affirmation Today
- African-American Art - Past and Present (volumes 1-3)
For more information, contact the Curator of Education at 396-0367 or email education@arkarts.com.
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