Learning Through Art Teacher Workshops

Learning Through Art at the MFAH (LTA/MFAH) connects the museum´s collections of world art into the classroom curriculum for art, language arts, math, science, and social studies. Through discussions in the museum´s galleries and hands-on art projects using everyday materials, LTA/MFAH elementary-level teacher training introduces TEKS and STAAR-aligned lessons that use the visual arts to teach students how to think critically and creatively as well as encourage self-confident, self-motivated and self-disciplined learners. LTA/MFAH bridges disciplines and curriculums to enable students to explore key concepts in the real world context of the art museum while teaching literacy and writing skills, math, science, and social studies. Use MFAH’s elementary curriculum, Learning Through Art at the MFAH, to integrate higher level cognitive skills, such as observing and organizing information, making predictions and communicating ideas and thoughts with art inquiry methods to ultimately promote the students’ development of 21st-century skills that are needed to succeed in the world.

Lunch and a certificate of participation for 6 hours of SBEC and G/T approved professional development are provided at all "Learning Through Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston" teacher workshops. Registration is $35 for MFAH Members and $40 for nonmembers. Preregistration is required. 

Fall 2012 Workshops
Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Learning Through Art at the MFAH—ARTiculation, October 6 
• Learning Through Art at the MFAH—Tour the Americas, November 3
• Learning Through Art at the MFAH—Window on the World, December 1

Spring 2013 Workshops
Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Learning Through Art at the MFAH—Beyond the Canvas, February 2 / Click here to register online.
• Learning Through Art at the MFAH—Go Global, March 2 / Click here to register online.
• Learning Through Art at the MFAH—Decoding Art Mysteries, April 27 / Click here to register online.

For more detailed descriptions of the various LTA/MFAH workshops, click here.

Workshops for Schools and Districts

Learning Through Art at the MFAH connects the museum’s collections of world art into the classroom curriculum for art, language arts, math, science, and social studies. The MFAH offers workshops on the LTA curriculum throughout the year. Workshops based on the curriculum are conducted at the museum, schools, and district facilities. These workshops may be specially designed to suit the needs and interests of the group and can be tailored based on subject area, goals, and grade levels. Contact resource@mfah.org to schedule your LTA training. Through tours of the museum´s galleries and hands-on art projects using everyday materials, LTA elementary-level teacher training introduces TEKS-aligned lessons that use the visual arts to teach literacy and writing skills, math, science, and social studies.

Curriculum Kit

Learning Through Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is an innovative, interdisciplinary, art-centered curriculum for grades 1–6. LTA/MFAH connects the museum’s collections of world art into the classroom curriculum for art, language arts, math, science, and social studies. The program features two curriculum kits: one for grades 1–3 and another for grades 4–6. Each kit contains a teacher’s guide with multidisciplinary lesson charts, illustrated art-making lesson plans, and information about selected works of art; a set of 24” x 36” full-color posters of each work; a CD containing digital images of works of art; a video (DVD or VHS) featuring four Texas artists at work.

Curriculum kits are available for purchase or loan through the Kinder Foundation Education Center. E-mail resource@mfah.org for more information about purchasing materials.

TEKS and STAAR Correlations

Learning Through Art at MFAH connects to the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) and TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills).

Make connections to TEKS and TAKS.

Now updated with TEKS and STAAR correlations.

The Learning Through Art Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston receives generous funding from The Boeing Company and the Chevron Corporation.

All education programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive endowment income from funds provided by Caroline Wiess Law; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Favrot Fund; and Gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.