wexner center for the arts


Learn: For Teachers

The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen
Conversations in the Humanities with Fred Andrle


Feb 11
Film/Video Theater

Whether they were made 20 years ago or 80, dozens and dozens of wonderful films fall through the cracks of film history.

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Tacita Dean’s Craneway Event

Just-added free event


Feb 12
Film/Video Theater

The Wexner Center is thrilled to present this evocative film project, which captures Merce Cunningham rehearsing with his company, in conjunction with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Legacy Tour performance this evening.

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All courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

Teacher Tour Night


Feb 18
Wexner Center Galleries

Join us to explore the center’s new exhibitions and learn about upcoming professional development opportunities for educators. You’ll discuss the works in the galleries and find out how connections can be made between your classroom curriculum and the center’s programming.

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Catherine Opie, Football Landscape #5 (Juneau vs. Douglas, Juneau, Alaska), 2007

WorldView Winter 2010 Film Screening

Recommended for grades 9–12


Feb 19
Film/Video Theater

Every thinking mind needs a world view. This program introduces your students to cross-cultural perspectives through experiences with selected contemporary artworks or artists.

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Worldview students in previous years discussing a film screening.

Artist’s Talk
Natalie Jeremijenko


Feb 23
Film/Video Theater

Is what’s good for the goose literally good for you as well? Hear artist-engineer Natalie Jeremijenko talk about her latest project, a “cross-species cookbook” that emphasizes our connections with our feathered friends.

> MORE INFO on Artist’s Talk<br>Natalie Jeremijenko
Image from the Cross-species Cookbook Debra Solomon
All courtesy Marian Goodman GalleryCatherine Opie, Football Landscape #5 (Juneau vs. Douglas, Juneau, Alaska), 2007Worldview students in previous years discussing a film screening.Image from the Cross-species Cookbook Debra Solomon
All courtesy Marian Goodman GalleryCatherine Opie, Football Landscape #5 (Juneau vs. Douglas, Juneau, Alaska), 2007Worldview students in previous years discussing a film screening.Image from the Cross-species Cookbook Debra Solomon

Programs for Teachers

The Wexner Center offers workshops and resource materials for teachers to introduce issues in contemporary art and culture and to help you prepare your students for visits to the center. The center's exhibitions and building provide points of departure for in-depth workshops for teachers, as well as for public artists' talks, lectures, symposia, and other programs that may interest you.

You can also plan in-service workshops for your school, or sign up for graduate-level courses created in tandem with Wexner Center programs.

Watch this page for current and upcoming events especially for teachers and educators. Read more on the Additional Teacher Programs and Resources page.


Bringing Your Class for a Tour?

Are you bringing your class to Wexner Center exhibitions 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 artwork. Find out more about the program on the Pages blog.

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 exhibition at the center May 27 to June 1. They also give tours of that show to school groups. Teachers, consider bringing your class to see the 2010 Interventions exhibition and think about students who might want to apply for the 2011 course. (See the artwork the 2009 class created in a Flickr photo album.) Find out more about the class on the Art & Environment blog.


Exhibitions

VIDEO

Hard Targets TV

Hard Targets TV

Watch a PSA for our Hard Targets exhibition with Coach Jim Tressel, Archie Griffin, and Athletic Director Gene Smith

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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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