This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for August 2025. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
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Exhibitions
Making a Mark: Women in Early Texas Art
The exhibition Making a Mark: Women in Early Texas Art presents a collection of work made by well-known women artists who created artwork during the Early Texas Art period. The showcase features a variety of art styles, mediums, and and techniques.
The exhibition will open on August 15, 2025, and it will close on November 30, 2025.
Information about the artwork: click here!
Unearthing Big Bend
The Unearthing Big Bend exhibition will feature selected photography collections by Sarah Wilson and Terry Cockerham. The photography collection examines the Big Bend area through colorful landscapes, monochromatic vistas, and selected photos of fossils.
The exhibition is currently open, and it will close on September 7, 2025.
Information about the artwork: click here!
Educational Activities and Events
Family Day: In Person
The Tyler Museum of Art’s Family Day program is held every second Saturday of the month from 1:00pm – 4:00pm at the museum. The event will have art activities for children and students of all ages, art books to read for all ages, coloring pages of the museum’s permanent collection, and snacks. All art activities are compliant with the TEKS. Additionally, all Family Day participants will get free admission to the exhibitions.
For August, the art activity will be a puzzle collage. The event will be held at the museum on August 9, 2025 between 1:00pm – 4:00pm.
For more information on the Family Day Event, click here!
TMA Lesson Plans for Elementary, Middle School, and High School
Lesson Plan: Liz Ward, Ghosts of the Old Mississippi: Baton Rouge to Donaldsonville
The students will study Liz Ward’s multi-media collage Ghosts of the Old Mississippi: Baton Rouge to Donaldsonville. Specifically, the students will examine how Ward represented a connection between the artistic representation of the Mississippi River region and the history of this area of the Mississippi River. Afterwards, the students will begin the project by writing a short paper about a chosen historical landscape. Once the students have completed their papers, the students will finish the project by creating a multi-media collage. The collage will represent the history found in the student’s chosen landscape.
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Information on the artwork: click here!
Elements and Principles of Design
This lesson plan and following activity defines each of the principles and elements of design. Art examples of each element and principle are included with the vocabulary words. The artworks used in the lesson are from the Tyler Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
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For information on the artwork, click here!
Schedule a School Tour with the Tyler Museum of Art
Planning a School Tour
If you are interested in scheduling a tour for your students at the museum, please contact ranthony@tylermuseum.org and provide the following information:
- The grade level of the visiting students;
- The number of students who will attend;
- And, three days in your class schedule that are available for the tour.
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Tyler Museum of Art Connection
For more information about the Tyler Museum of Art’s events, activities, and educational tours:
Email: ranthony@tylermuseum.org
Call: 903 – 595 – 1001
Tyler Museum of Art: Memberships
Members get free admission to all exhibitions plus access to members-only gallery openings and special events.
Free or discounted admission is available to hundreds of other museums through our North American Reciprocal Program (NARM) Card.
TMA Memberships are available at various levels, each providing support for our community-driven exhibitions and educational programs.
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The next TMA Newsletter will be sent to teachers on: September 1, 2025.
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