Background Information: Artists from many times and places have created artwork inspired by cultural figures of mythology and history, including William Bouguereau. While much of his imagery is from Greek and Roman mythology, every culture has its own iconic figures that represent values, history, and mythology that inspire our own stories and imaginations. Primary Purpose: Students… Read on

Primary Purpose: Use the painting Homer and His Guide by William Adolphe-Bouguerea to help students recognize and explore empathy and how artists can communicate emotions in figurative art with facial expression, body language, and visual storytelling Background Information: Homer is the famous Greek poet and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This particular painting titled… Read on

Enjoy these post-museum visit activities on your self-guided experience through Winslow Homer. These activities are designed to take an hour, with three parts totaling 20 minutes. Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

Complete your visit of Coming Away: Winslow Homer & England with these post-gallery activities. Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science presents a teacher’s guide to writing screenplays. See how the elements of writing and film can come together in this classroom activity! From www.oscars.org.

Be the filmmaker! Using your smartphone or iPad practice your film-vocabulary by filming different shots, camera angles and camera movements. Compare and contrast how filming an object or scene from different angles changes how you think, view, and feel. Compare and contrast how filming an object or scene from different angles changes how your audience… Read on

Use the Haunted Screens exhibition to inspire a short writing activity that can be done in the galleries or in the classroom. Choose one work of art to focus on (film clip, movie poster, etc.). Use the work to write an exciting film promo.

Create the soundtrack for a silent film featured in Haunted Screens.  Select a clip from the exhibition. Make a list of adjectives that describe emotions you feel while watching the clip (i.e. “confusion,” “sadness,” or “scared”). Imagine what sounds can be used to correspond to the emotions. Have students slowly start adding in sounds one… Read on

Paint your own landscape! Go outside of the school, possibly to a park, sketch what you see in the landscape. What captures your attention in the landscape? What season is it? What time of day do you think it is? What is the weather like? What other qualities about nature would a Hudson River School… Read on

This video is part of a collection of recorded talks with Milwaukee-area professionals who don’t work in museums, but use art in their work and lives. These live talks are inspiring, combining art with many different fields. These videos are great resources for high school teachers who might want to speak with students about different… Read on