For more information or to borrow an Educator Resource Pack email The Education Department


Educators

Exposure to the visual arts has been proven to enhance students’ academic experiences throughout curricula. Arrange a tour of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and introduce your students to the joy of learning through art. The Gallery is the perfect classroom extension for studying subjects like American history, geography, literature, music, and even geometry. Interactive tours explore our varied collections, tie into school curricula, emphasize the development of essential visual and critical analysis skills, and provide an opportunity for each student to discover his or her creative potential in a supportive, encouraging environment.


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Educator Programs


Educator Institutes

The Education department periodically offers Educator Institutes. These programs are designed to help teachers make meaningful classroom connections with works of art. Teachers explore special exhibitions and the Corcoran’s collection while learning new ways to incorporate object-based learning into their curriculum. Institutes are offered during the school year over the course of a weekend. Participants take part in studio experiences, writing activities, Gallery explorations, and lectures. Lunch is provided and attendees receive an Educator Packet provided by the Gallery Education department. Pre-registration is required and limited space is available.

E-mail: tours@corcoran.org
Phone: (202) 639-1725


Schedule an Educator In-Service Event

What better place to discuss interdisciplinary learning with your colleagues than the Corcoran Gallery Art? The Corcoran welcomes school and county systems to use our facilities and resources to encourage dialogue among teachers. Education department staff will work closely with you to arrange for a personalized In-Service event.

TO SCHEDULE AN IN-SERVICE EVENT
Call (202) 639-1724 or e-mail msinclair@corcoran.org


Classroom Material
The Corcoran’s Education department collectively researches and gathers source materials about exhibitions and artists to create a focused packet designed for educators to use in the classroom. Interdisciplinary and multi-cultural Educator Packets, which include slides, curriculum connections, artist biographies, bibliographies, and other contextual materials, are available for loan to educators for a period of four weeks. Please note, shipping and handling fees are charged for mailing packets. To request an Educator Packet, e-mail tours@corcoran.org or call (202) 639-1730.

  • The 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting: Painting Outside Painting
  • Africa Explores: 20th–Century African Art
  • Andy Warhol: Social Observer & The 46th Biennial Exhibition: Media/Metaphor
  • Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection
  • Bourgeois and Jones: Careers of Influence
  • Celebrating the Legacy: African American Art at the Corcoran
  • Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth, Aerial Photographs
  • Fables, Folktales, and Myths
  • Face to Face: American Portraiture from 1700–1850
  • Gordon Parks at a Crossroads
  • Half Past Autumn: Gordon Parks
  • Here is New York: A Democracy Photographs
  • Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry
  • The Impressionist Tradition in America
  • In Response to Place: Photographs from the Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places (download)
  • Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection
  • Jim Goldberg: Raised by Wolves
  • Leisure and Labor
  • Media / Metaphor
  • Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939
  • New Worlds from Old: 19th–Century Australian & American Landscapes
  • Out of Time and Place: American Figurative Art
  • Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
  • Passionate Visions of the American South:
    Self Taught Artists from 1940 to the present
  • The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770–1 870
  • Picturing History: American Painting 1770–1930
  • Picturing the Past: An American Journey
  • Promised Land: American Landscape Paintings of the 19th Century
  • Proof Positive:
    Forty Years of Contemporary American Printmaking at ULAE, 1957–1997
  • Quilts of Gee’s Bend
  • Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Romeow and Drooliet
  • Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective
  • Songs of My People: African Americans, A Self-Portrait
  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    and the Photographs of Danny Lyon
  • To Conserve a Legacy:
    American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Teaching from Photographs
  • The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America

Catalogues and books from previous exhibitions available for checkout:

  • The 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting:
    Painting Outside Painting
  • Dialogue with Nature:
    Landscape and Literature in Nineteenth Century America
  • Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Danny Lyon


School Tours and Workshops

Book a Gallery tour and introduce your students to the joy of learning through art. Interactive tours explore our multicultural collection, tie into school curricula, and place emphasis on the development of important visual and critical analysis skills. Click here to download a School Tours Brochure.

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TO SCHEDULE A SCHOOL TOUR AND WORKSHOP:

  1. Click here to download a School Tour Request form.
  2. Print and complete the form.
  3. Call (202) 639-1730 weekdays from 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Please have the completed form easily accessible to you in order to expedite the process.

Visitors with special needs, please call (202) 639-1774.

 

 

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