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Learn: For Schools

Thursday Walk-In Tours


May 13 - Oct 7
Meet at the gallery entrance

Make the most of your visit to our exhibitions. Take a lively, informative Walk-in Tour. Your docent (tour guide) introduces some of the many highlights in our current exhibitions while also encouraging you to ask questions and express your own ideas.

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Photo: Kevin Fitzsimons

ThinkTank 2010: Integrated Learning through the Arts

EDTL 872: A Graduate Course for Educators


Sep 23 - Dec 2
Wexner Center for the Arts

This program is a master's level graduate course offered through a partnership between the Wexner Center and OSU College of Education's School of Teaching and Learning. Contact the College of Education to learn how to register. Class sessions end at 6:48 PM.

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Photos: Jodi Miller

Teacher Open House

Free admission but RSVP requested


Sep 30
Performance Space

Kick off another outstanding year of programs at the Wexner Center.

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Photo: Kevin Fitzsimons

Artist's Talk
Suzanne Bocanegra

When a Priest Marries a Witch


Oct 1
Film/Video Theater

A story about a priest, an artist, and a young girl in Pasadena, Texas. Part artist’s talk, part performance, part cultural history, part sound installation.

> MORE INFO on Artist's Talk <br> Suzanne Bocanegra
Image courtesy of Suzanne Bocanegra

Super Sunday: Mark Bradford


Oct 3
Wexner Center for the Arts

Super Sundays feature a range of fun and engaging activities for the entire community. Activities and admission to the galleries are free for everyone. (Gallery admission is free all day, from 11 AM to 6 PM.)

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Photo: Al Zanyk
Photo: Kevin FitzsimonsPhotos: Jodi MillerPhoto: Kevin FitzsimonsImage courtesy of Suzanne Bocanegra Photo: Al Zanyk
Photo: Kevin FitzsimonsPhotos: Jodi MillerPhoto: Kevin FitzsimonsImage courtesy of Suzanne Bocanegra Photo: Al Zanyk

Programs for Schools

Expand Your Classroom!

Let the Wexner Center help you expand your classroom to encompass our galleries, stages, and screens, along with all the connections the contemporary arts can offer. Our programs emphasize active looking and learning and can complement your curriculum in language arts, social studies, science, foreign languages, math, or history--as well as in the arts. School programs help students at all K–12 grade levels work toward key academic content standards by encouraging the development of critical-thinking and comprehension skills.

Check this page for current and upcoming events for schools. Read more about all our school programs on the Additional School Programs and Resources page.


School Tours

School tours feature highlights of the Wexner Center's exhibitions and architecture. Tour content is always age appropriate and can be customized to enhance your classroom curriculum. Find all the details on the Tours page.

Teachers,are you bringing your class to the Wexner Center soon? Find useful background information about our our Mark Bradford exhibition (on view through October 10) on the pinocchioisonfire.org microsite. Find links to current and upcoming exhibitions here.

Pages: Art and Literacy

High School students participating in the Pages program visit the Wexner Center at least three times during the school year, experience visual arts, performing arts, and film projects, and develop their own responses in poetry, prose, and art work. Applications are now being accepted for 2011-2012. Find out more about the program here.

Art & Environment

High school students in 11th and 12th grade from all over central Ohio spent winter and spring 2010 exploring art and environmental issues and earning credit through their own schools in the half-year Art & Environment course at the Wexner Center. Find out more about the class on the Art & Environment blog and urge your students to apply for the 2011 course. See the artwork the 2010 class created in our Flickr photo album.

Additional Resources for Teachers

Click here for resources that can help you enrich your students’ visit to the Wexner Center.