Learn more about the Meadows Museum’s collections and special exhibitions, and connect works of art to your classroom teaching. The Meadows Museum is committed to kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers and developing multidisciplinary curricular materials for teaching with great works of Spanish art in our collections and other cultures through our exhibitions. Workshops will offer interactive gallery experiences and opportunities for idea-sharing with other educators. Participants will receive background materials and images from the collection along with lesson plans and strategies for incorporating Meadows Museum objects into classroom curriculum.

Teacher workshops are FREE with advance registration. For more information or to register, call 214.768.4993, or email Scott Winterrowd at swinterrowd@smu.edu.

Workshop Titles and Dates:

Print and Process
Saturday, October 13, 2012, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Explore how artists from Pablo Picasso to Yoko Ono have translated their ideas into printed form. Participants will begin the day at the Meadows Museum, and travel to the Nasher Sculpture Center in the afternoon.  Box lunches and transportation between museums will be provided. To register, contact Scott Winterrowd at swinterrowd@smu.edu.

Masterworks at the Meadows Museum   
Saturday, December 1, 2012, 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.   
Learn more about the most important works in the Meadows Collection and ways to utilize them in classroom learning. This workshop will highlight key works by Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, and Míro and explore how they were made at pivotal moments in each master’s career.  

Impressions of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Painters in the Meadows Collection
Saturday, April 6, 2013, 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.   
This workshop will explore the international scope of nineteenth century Spanish painters who made their careers abroad. Using both the permanent collection of the Meadows Museum and the special exhibition, Impressions of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Vistas by Martín Rico, attention will be given to artists who painted, exhibited and found success in France, Italy, and the United States.

Visit the Meadows Museum website at  www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org and go to our education pages for self-guided tour materials and curricula connected to works of art in the collection. The Meadows Museum is located at 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas TX 75275-0357. For more information about the Meadows Museum, please call 214 768-2740.

Online Curricula

Faces of Spain: A Self-Guide to Portraiture in the Meadows Museum Collection
Created as self-guide materials for use at the Meadows Museum, these materials can also be used to aid in preparation for your visit to the Museum. The materials cover a range of portraits in the permanent collection from the Renaissance to the present, and offer questions to use to engage your students in talking about portraiture.

Please visit this link to download a PDF of Faces of Spain.

The Form of Things: Sculpture from the Meadows Museum
Created as self-guide materials for use in the Meadows Museum and with the Museums newly renovated sculpture plaza, these materials can also be used to aid in preparation for your visit to the Meadows. The materials cover sculpture from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century, and offer questions to use to engage your students in discussing and making sculpture.

Please visit this link to download a PDFof The Form of Things.

Medieval to Renaissance: Spanish Art from the Meadows Museum
Materials created based on permanent collection objects in conjunction with the Museum’s 2008 exhibition Fernando Gallego and his Workshop: The Altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo, these materials focus on old master paintings from the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the Meadows Collection. Included in the curriculum is background information on the period covered, info sheets on specific works of art, and lessons for use in the classroom.

Please visit this link to access the guide Medieval to Renaissance.