Museums are dedicated to ensuring that students from diverse backgrounds have access to rewarding, engaging, and high-quality educational experiences. The Amistad Center for Art & Culture is dedicated to offering a robust in-person as well as virtual experience for all students as part of their classroom learning to enhance their knowledge in the areas of history, social studies, world regional studies, visual arts and humanity. We encourage students to think creatively and critically and allow visual arts to impact them throughout their educational journey.
Discover the stories of creativity, struggle, and jubilation in this new set of lesson plans and resources for K–12 educators featuring works of art from our collection that explore the richness and inspiration of artist of color. Each lesson plan encourages critical and historical thinking in students and strategies for social-emotional learning and culturally responsiveness.
• Introductory essays
• Downloadable high-resolution image
• Critical thinking questions for students
• Classroom activities
• Selected additional resources
Coming Soon!
Explore the depths of being that is the people of the African Diaspora. Learn of the multitude of incredible ways Blackness existed and continues to persevere throughout history and culture, from incredible acts of triumph to a variety of ways of living and sometimes struggle. These resources show a gamut of the Black experience including the way we celebrate, interact, and much, much more.
This paid opportunity is a six-week program that will engage a variety of teens (grades 9-12) from in and around Hartford in portfolio creation, the business of fine arts, undergraduate program exploration, curation in a museum setting, exhibition design as a practice, and a group exhibition in a Wadsworth Atheneum Museum gallery.
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture believes in the power of connecting K-12 students to the rich history and legacy of African Americans and people of African descent through object-based and inquiry-based learning.
Works of art, objects and artifacts in our collection demonstrate the creativity of the culture, highlight the dark past of segregation and disenfranchisement, and the celebrate the talent of artists of color.
The collection reaches beyond visual arts and uplifts the humanity, compassion and joy of the human spirit to teach students empathy towards all mankind.
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