ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Choose Your Own Adventure: Group Narrative Writing

Students will view and discuss many works of art from different areas of the NCMA’s permanent collection. Together, students will select artworks that represent key components of a narrative: characters, setting, conflict, and solution, and discuss a possible plot to create a collective story around their chosen works of art.
NCSCoS Connections to English Language Arts and Visual Art

MATH

Ancient Art & Early Math

Students explore K-2 math standards in geometry while practicing observation, collaboration, and creative thinking around ancient Roman and Egyptian sculpture. Students will have the opportunity to discover the shapes that they carry with them every day by making a rubbing of the bottom of their shoes. Please have crayons and copy paper available for students. This program comes with an optional Post-VFT Art Kit. Order yours at registration.
NCSCoS Connections to Math, Visual Art, Social Studies, and English Language Arts

SCIENCE

Forces & Motion

Students will use all five of their senses to carefully observe three works of art from the NCMA’s permanent collection, looking for evidence of pushes and pulls. Students will use their observations to determine if the subjects in the works of art look like they are stable or in motion, and balanced or unbalanced.
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Weather

Students will use all five of their senses to carefully observe three works of art from the NCMA’s permanent collection, looking for evidence of temperature, wind, and precipitation to determine the weather that each artist shows.
NCSCoS Connections to Science, Visual Art, and English Language Arts

SOCIAL STUDIES 

The Stories Art Can Tell

In each of these VFTs, students will explore three works of art from the NCMA’s permanent collection featuring artists from groups that museums have historically excluded or under-represented. Through reading the works by different featured artist groups, students will practice the social emotional learning competencies of self and social-awareness and relationship skills.

featuring Black Artists

Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by African American artists and explore how each artist tells a story of Black History through their unique use of art elements and media.
NCSCoS Connections to Social Studies, Visual Art, English Language Arts, and Social Emotional Learning

featuring Indigenous Artists

Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by Indigenous North American artists and explore how each artist tells a story of Native American past, present, and future. Students will discover how each artist uses their media and scale to elevate and point to the universality of these stories.
NCSCoS Connections to Social Studies, Visual Art, English Language Arts, and Social Emotional Learning

featuring Latin American Artists

Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by Latin American artists and explore how each artist tells a story about their identity through images of place. Please have students come to their session with two pieces of paper each, any color. This program comes with an optional Post-VFT Art Kit. Order yours at registration.
NCSCoS Connections to Social Studies, Visual Art, English Language Arts, and Social Emotional Learning

featuring Women Artists

Students will “read” works of art from the permanent collection by women artists and how each artist tells a story about their own intersecting identities through images of women. This program comes with an optional Post-VFT Art Kit. Order yours at registration.
NCSCoS Connections to Social Studies, Visual Art, English Language Arts, and Social Emotional Learning

WORLD LANGUAGE 

See our Spanish Language Program Page for more details and to sign up

Historias que el arte puede contar sobre Artistas Latinos (Spanish Language Program)

NCSCoS Connections to World Languages, Visual Art, Social Studies, and English Language Arts

Exploring the Art and Language of Hispanic Artists (Bilingual Program)

For native English speakers learning Spanish or
For native Spanish speakers learning English