wexner center for the arts


Learn: For Schools

Pages
Accepting Applications


Dec 31 - Apr 30
Wexner Center for the Arts

Teachers, apply now to have your school participate in Pages, an innovative literacy and writing program, during the 2010–2011 school year.

> MORE INFO on Pages<br>Accepting Applications
Pages students in the galleries

Summer Kids 2010 Registration
Workshops for Grades 1 to 8

Registration Now Open


Mar 15 - Jun 13
Wexner Center for the Arts

Get the kids in your life geared up for summer and thinking about our intensive, week-long studio workshops in June, July, and August.

> MORE INFO on Summer Kids 2010 Registration<br>Workshops for Grades 1 to 8

Ohio Shorts: Youth Division 2010 Call for Entries

Deadline: March 26, 2010


Mar 26
Film/Video Theater

Ohio Shorts is Ohio’s premier competition for video- and filmmakers, and the Youth Division is open to any entrant who will be age 18 or under at the time of the May screening.

> MORE INFO on Ohio Shorts: Youth Division 2010 Call for Entries
All images courtesy of the filmmakers Freaky Switch (Kati Keenan, 2008)

Art from a Changing Arctic
Film Screening and Discussion

Recommended for Grades 9–12


Mar 31
Film/Video Theater

Give students a glimpse of climate change in the arctic in this program with artist and film producer David Buckland.

> MORE INFO on Art from a Changing Arctic<br>Film Screening and Discussion
Photo: David Buckland

Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change: Climate and Culture

With David Buckland, Lonnie Thompson, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Edwina von Gal, Mitch Epstein and Alexis Rockman


Mar 31
Film/Video Theater

Hear how artists and scientists are working together to call attention to the growing threat of climate change—and to find new and innovative ways of sharing information with the public.

> MORE INFO on Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change: Climate and Culture
Photos: David Buckland
Pages students in the galleriesAll images courtesy of the filmmakers Freaky Switch (Kati Keenan, 2008)Photo: David Buckland  Photos: David Buckland
Pages students in the galleriesAll images courtesy of the filmmakers Freaky Switch (Kati Keenan, 2008)Photo: David Buckland  Photos: David Buckland

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 students to the Wexner Center this winter or spring? Find useful background information developed especially for educators in our Teacher Resource Guide PDF for Hard Targets and the other exhibitions and projects on view through April 11. You can also learn more about each exhibition on its own web page. 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 2010-2011. Find out more about the program here.

Art & Environment

High school students in 11th and 12th grade from all over central Ohio are spending 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. The students will show their projects in the Interventions exhibition at the center May 27 to June 1. Consider bringing your students to see the exhibition—the teen artists themselves give tours of the show to school groups—and think about students who might want to apply for the 2011 course. Find out more about the class on the Art & Environment blog. See the artwork by 2009 class 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.


Performing Arts

VIDEO

KARAS

KARAS

View the work of Japanese choreographer, designer, and solo dancer Saburo Teshigawara before the U.S. debut of new work, Miroku, at the Wex April 16.

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Film/Video

WEX AT GATEWAY

See what Wexner Center-selected films are playing now at the Gateway Film Center

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