Educators Event | “Learning Through Art” Summer Institute
June 25, 26 & 27, 2025
Your ticket includes all three days of the workshop: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
ChARTing Your Course: The ART of Effective Teaching
Teachers, are you interested in engaging strategies, resources, and materials that you can easily incorporate in your classroom to create empowered learners? Come and “fill your teaching toolkit” with works of art from the MFAH collections and hands-on projects to enhance your TEKS and STAAR-aligned lessons, creating a more interactive and collaborative learning environment.
At this three-day event, explore personalized learning strategies, integrate technology, and delve into nano learning for impactful, bite-sized learning ideas. Elevate engagement and motivation to promote higher-order thinking skills through strategies based on holistic learning approaches, ELL techniques, literacy development, SEL, mindfulness, STREAM ideas, and gamification.
This program provides G/T CPE credit, free MFAH admission passes, lesson-plan ideas, gallery tours, materials, shop discounts, and more.
Tickets
- $100 per person includes materials, parking, lunch, and Museum admission for all three days.
- All MFAH educator programs offer curriculum resources, digital educational frameworks, and motivational techniques that foster diverse learners’ engagement.
Plan Your Visit
- This workshop takes place over three days: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, June 25, 26 & 27.
- Meet in the McNair Education Court on the Lower Level of the Kinder Building.
- Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map
Questions? Contact teachers@mfah.org for information.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the John M. O'Quinn Foundation; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.