This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for December 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Category Archives: TMA: Exhibition
Lesson Plan: Billy Hassell, “Roadrunner Near Marfa”
This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. The students will learn about the art style of Billy Hassell and his use of patterns in his painting Roadrunner Near Marfa. Additionally, the students will discuss how the artist as well as the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation have helped conservation efforts to protect endangered Texas animals. Afterwards, the students will create a construction paper collage of an endangered or protected animal that is found in Texas.
2024 Middle School: Día de los Muertos Exhibition
Every year, the Tyler Museum of Art holds a student exhibition for 5th through 8th grade middle school students in the East Texas area. The goal of the exhibition is for students to learn about the cultural festivities of Día de los Muertos. Then, the students create artworks that exhibits the cultural iconography of the holiday. When the artworks are completed, the teachers will select the pieces that will be exhibited in the Education Gallery.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: November 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for November 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: October 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for October 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Lesson Plan: Richard Haas, “Lucas Apartments”
This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. Students will learn about Richard Haas’ methods of representing architecture in his print Lucas Apartments. Then, the class will discuss how architecture is catalogued in both the past and the present. Afterwards, the students will select a historical building in their town to research and photograph. Next, each student will write a response to questions regarding their chosen building.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: September 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for September 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Lesson Plan: Lilian Garcia-Roig’s “Green Curtain”
This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for High School art teachers. The students will study the impasto style found within the artist’s painting. Then, the students will create their own impasto artwork using acrylic paint of canvas board. The students will complete the project by creating an artist statement that explains how they created and planned their finished composition.
Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter: August 2024
This is the Tyler Museum of Art’s Newsletter for August 2024. It includes information about exhibitions, educational programing, and school tour opportunities.
Lesson Plan: Otis Dozier, “Untitled (Mountain Scene)”
This lesson plan contains the National Learning Standards for Visual Arts and the Texas TEKS for Elementary, Middle, and High School art teachers. The students will study the minimal Regionalist art style of Otis Dozier and his composition Untitled (Mountain Scene). Then, the class will discuss Regionalism and how the different environmental regions in Texas can be represented in Dozier’s style. The students will be paired into groups to work collaboratively to represent a specific environmental biome. The project will be completed by each group presenting their Dozier inspired habitat to the class.
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