Teacher Guides
Teacher Guides are available to download for select special and permanent exhibitions. The guides are designed to enhance not only visual arts curriculum, but other disciplines as well. They include images, suggested topics for discussion, activities for the classroom and tips for Self-Guided Tours at the museum.
Current Teachers Guide
Manuel Izquierdo: Myth, Nature, and Renewal (PDF)
Visit the exhibition, Manuel Izquierdo: Myth, Nature, and Renewal Family Holdings: Turkish Flat Weaves from the Keith Achepohl Collection
Teacher Guides from Past Exhibitions
Family Holdings: Turkish Flat Weaves from the Keith Achepohl Collection (pdf)
View the exhibition Family Holdings: Turkish Flat Weaves from the Keith Achepohl Collection in our past exhibitions section:
Marie Watt: Lodge (pdf)
View Marie Watt: Lodge in our past exhibition section.Norman Lundin: Inside/Outside (pdf)
View Norman Lundin: Inside/Outside in our past exhibition section.
Timeless Renaissance: Italian Drawings from the Alessandro Maggiori Collection (pdf)
View Timeless Renaissance: Italian Drawings from the Alessandro Maggiori Collection in our past exhibition section.Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life (pdf)
View Henk Pander: Memory and Modern Life in our past exhibition section.
Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs (pdf)
View Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs in our past exhibition section.Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden (pdf)
View Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden in our past exhibition section.
Harry Widman: Image, Myth and Modernism (pdf)
View Harry Widman: Image, Myth and Modernism in our past exhibition section.
The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon (pdf)
View The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon in our past exhibition section.
James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint (pdf)
View James Lavadour: The Properties of Paint in our past exhibition section.
George Johansen: Image and Idea (pdf)
View George Johansen: Image and Idea in our past exhibition section.
Fay Jones: Painted Fictions (pdf)
View Fay Jones: Painted Fictions in our past exhibition section.Recycled Art (pdf)
View Recycled Art in our past exhibits section.Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation (pdf)
View Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in our past exhibits section.Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread (pdf)
View Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread in our past exhibits section.Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination and Place (pdf)
View Charles E. Heaney: Memory, Imagination and Place in our past exhibits section.
The museum suggested a variety of activities to conduct with students prior to visits, giving them a context for what they would view, which significantly improved the depth and retention of learning.
-Audrey Delgado, Robert Frost Elementary, 5th and 6th grade


