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Conceptual Art

Discover how Conceptual artists used language, performance, and instructions to fuel creativity, and sought alternatives to institutional settings.

Language and Art
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Professional Development for K–12 Teachers | The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Professional Development for K–12 Teachers | The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Back-to-School Kickoff for Teachers

The annual Back-to-School Kickoff took place in September 2022. This online event offered ways to connect, create, and learn about the FREE Getty Museum K-12 teacher and student programs for the 2022-23 school year.

Click here to see the agenda and resource links >

Inspire your practice by hearing from innovators and thinkers in education. All programs are online.

Upcoming Speaker:
Creativity, Change, and Courageous Imagination
with Cindy Meyers Foley, Executive Deputy Director for Learning and Experience at the Columbus Museum of Art
March 29, 2023, 5-6 pm PST

More information >
Register Here

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Professional Development for K-12 Teachers | The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Back-to-School Kickoff for Teachers The annual Back-to-School Kickoff took place in September 2022. This online event offered ways to connect, create, and learn about the FREE Getty Museum K-12 teacher and student programs for the 2022-23 school year. Click here to see the agenda and resource links > Inspire your practice by hearing from innovators and thinkers in education.

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On-Demand Webinars | The J. Paul Getty Museum

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On-Demand Webinars | The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Select Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Pacific time

In a time of heightened civil discourse around racial and social injustice, how can we use art and visual literacy skills to build students' understanding of others and a deeper appreciation of diversity? Images shape the ways we interpret our complex world. Strong visual literacy skills enable students to read and critically analyze images for meaning, to express themselves through words and images, to non-judgmentally listen and explore other people's points of view, and to understand and develop empathy for others who are different from themselves.

This series of webinars, geared toward K-12 teachers, will provide specific strategies for using artworks to build skills such as critical image analysis, interpretation of images, and supporting interpretations with research. We'll focus on the ways that art can help us understand others' perspectives and strengthen our ability to express our own, and examine how visual images can influence opinions, social norms, and cultural ideals.

Free | Advance registration required

The French painter Gustave Courbet once said, "art is knowledge made visible." So how can we help students to access the knowledge of images? In this webinar, we'll walk through the process of analyzing a work of art (and most any image). We will introduce numerous lenses your students can use in their exploration, including: identifying and describing what you see; considering the intent of the creator; examining meaningful clues such as symbols or references; determining the context and history of an image; critically analyzing an image for meaning; and more. We'll also cover ways of incorporating these visual explorations into both Social Studies and English Language Arts curriculum standards.

How can teachers guide a conversation that helps students make meaning of a visual image? What are some strategies for supporting student exploration through dialogue, and how does this approach support students' ability to forge human connections with people different from themselves? We'll share strategies for discussing a work of art that are easy to use.

In today's image-saturated environment, the ability to research the meaning and intent of images is more important than ever. Art provides a versatile lens for exploring how to dissect an image through research. In this webinar, we'll explore online tools that students can use to find out more about art. We'll also look at different types of strategies for facilitating student research to uncover information, analyze, and draw conclusions about meaning, intent, history, and more. Finally, we'll explore the ways that in-depth research can support students' diversity awareness by learning more about others who are different from themselves.

Images can be a great tool for inspiring students to express their ideas and opinions. We'll explore how art can be used as a jumping-off point to strengthen students' self-expression skills, discuss specific approaches to get the ball rolling and encourage depth and range of expression, and integrate these skills into your English Language Arts and Social Studies curricula. We will include teaching resources from the Getty Unshuttered photography program to help guide and build self-expression skills with your students.

During this unprecedented time, the Getty Museum recognizes that K12 teachers are facing special opportunities and challenges in their work. To offer support, we are launching a free, monthly webinar series for K12 teachers across all subject areas, focusing on ways that the arts can inspire and engage students in both the virtual and in-person classroom. Each session will offer simple, creative strategies that you can use with your students right away.

December 16, 2020

The Getty Art Challenge, in which participants re-created famous artworks with simple household materials, went viral on social media when the pandemic hit. The project inspired creativity from people of all ages and art experience levels, including teens and children who posed for portraits in homemade costumes or arranged fruit and toys to replicate a still life. In this webinar you'll learn student-friendly approaches for adapting this popular activity to address the K12 Social Studies and English Language Arts curriculum.

May 5, 2021

What will future generations see when they look at images of 2020-2021... life in a pandemic, an uprising, a country in healing and hopeful? Young people around the country have never been more inspired to pick up their cameras and phones and document the world around them. In this webinar, we will introduce Getty Unshuttered, a multi-faceted youth-focused educational resource that explores photographs as a medium for self-expression and understanding others. Unshuttered includes how-to-style videos on core photography skills, an app-based community for student photo sharing, and related lesson plans for educators. We'll share the many ways you can incorporate photographs into your classroom practices.

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Getty Virtual: K12 Teacher Webinars | The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Select Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Pacific time In a time of heightened civil discourse around racial and social injustice, how can we use art and visual literacy skills to build students' understanding of others and a deeper appreciation of diversity? Images shape the ways we interpret our complex world.