teaching and family resources

Teacher Resources complement our Teacher Workshops, supporting classroom learning through interdisciplinary connections between art and academic subjects. They provide practical strategies for integrating the arts into learning while emphasizing the development of close observation and critical thinking.

In art-making workshops, educators engage in the creative process, explore techniques and materials to integrate into their classroom, and reflect on how these activities can enhance students' critical thinking, problem-solving, and self-expression. Teacher workshops offer Act 48 credits.

Please note that particular works mentioned in guides may not be on view when you visit. High resolution images of works in our collection can be found on our Collection page.

Looking for resources for your family to enjoy at Woodmere? Discover our many family programs, children's art classes, and Family Activity Guides to print and use in our galleries.

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Soul, Sound, and Voice: The Art of Jerry Pinkney Teacher Resource

Visit our dedicated hub for learning alongside the work of Jerry Pinkney! Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Soul, Sound, and Voice, this comprehensive guide comes with image slides and activities for your classroom.

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Storytelling and Critical Thinking Through the Narrative Art of Edith Neff

This Edith Neff teaching resource connects two essential skills: First, the skill of storytelling. There is no activity more closely related to the experience of being human htan storytelling, both in its social implicaions and its historical references. Second, the skill of critical thinking (actually a collection of behaviors which allows us to examine our reactions and our perspecives and thereby to grow as individuals. With a close-looking lens on Neff's large scale storytelling paintings, this guide accesses and nurtures critical thinking.

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Edith Neff: Discovering a Story in Art

Visual art provides students with immediate access to the characteristics of good storytelling, while allowing critical observers to "enter the frame" and experience situations from alternative points of view. See how this works with the narrative art of Edith Neff (1943-1995). A Leading realist painter of her day, Neff was praised for her dynamic composition, sophisticated use of color, and her ability to portray drama in everyday life. She explored questions of race, gender, and identity, probing the social and cultural fabric of Philadelphia.

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Discovering Connections: Africa in the Arts of Philadelphia

Africa in the arts of Philadelphia explores the inspiration of African culture and heritage in the work of Philadelphian artists Barbara Bullock (born 1938) and Charles Searles (1937-2004) and Nigerian artist Twins Seven-Seven (1944-2011). Their collaboration and cultivation of ideas and assertions of African and African American cultural identity were largely developed through the Ife-Ife Black Humanitarian Center in North Philadelphia.

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Art & Literature: A Reflection of History

This teaching resource is designed to reveal connections that naturally exist between the visual arts and literature. Additionally, this resource will offer connections to history - specifically through historical events such as the American Revolution, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, WWI, WWII, and ancient tales from other countries and cultures.

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Violet Oakley & America Indivisible

This teaching resource is designed to reinforce the connections between history and visual arts, and to show how these natural connections can be used to gain insights into both historical events and artistic details. The focus is on the works of Philadelphia-based artist Violet Oakley, specifically the mural installation she created for the Senate Chamber at the PA State Capital in Harrisburg. These murals are a permanent installation and available to the public.

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Looking for Activities for families?

Homeschool parents and those visiting Woodmere as a family can use Family Activity Guides to enhance their experience. These self-guided learning activites draw on our collection for interactive fun and learning.

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Videos

Enjoy Woodmere’s series of videos on Youtube, including artist interviews, highlights from past exhibitions, musical renditions of stories, performances, and webinars.

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Private Tours & School Trips

Interested in booking a field trip or small group tour? Learn more about all of our different learning and artmaking opportunities for groups!

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Education Programs

Education programs offer visual art experiences that include monthly Art & Storytelling for preschoolers, Victorian Card Making, Circle of Trees Holiday Program, and many more engaging ways for young children to enjoy art.

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