The Joslyn provides digital resources to use in classrooms and during visits to the Museum. Discover lesson plans, teaching posters, virtual tours, and more to enrich your curriculum.

School & Teacher Programs

Learning Resources

Stay tuned for resources as we get closer to reopening on September 10, 2024!

Gallery Activities

Teacher Guides

Temporary Exhibitions

Need materials to engage your students during a self-guided visit? Review, print, and distribute these resources to your chaperones to ensure your students have a meaningful experience in The Joslyn’s galleries. Writing and sketching with pencils only is allowed.
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Self-Guided Resources

Build students’ ability to appreciate the visual arts while developing their critical thinking skills. Using the big ideas create, present, respond, and connect, assign your students activities, including some that do not require screentime.
PARTS OF ART [Elementary] Discover the visual language of art: line, shape and form, texture, color, light (value), and space. Explore how artists use these basic elements of art to convey information and ideas.
SUBJECTS &amp; STYLES [Middle] Discover the visual world that inspires artists to create works of art. Explore these subjects: portrait, landscape, still life, narrative, and non-objective. Learn to identify these styles: Academic Realism, Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Minimalism.
POSTWAR &amp; CONTEMPORARY ART [High] Join Karin Campbell, Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art, to discover significant artworks in our collection. Featured artists include Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Rashid Johnson, Rozeal, Jennifer Steinkamp, Frank Stella, Mickalene Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley.

Art Appreciation: Create, Present, Respond, Connect

Explore works made by Native Americans and artist-explorers. Make connections to the Lewis &amp; Clark Expedition, compare past and present artworks, and discover how Indigenous artists today continually adapt to change while celebrating tradition.
ANIMAL HIDE &amp; SEEK [Lower Elementary] Learn about Native Americans’ connection to animals.
ART OF THE AMERICAN WEST [Upper Elementary] Learn about North American Indigenous peoples as well as the explorers and artists who connected with them starting in the early 1800s to Native American artists today.
MOCCASINS &amp; MORE [Middle] Discover Native American artworks from the vault. We were honored to have Steve Tamayo, a Sicangu Lakota Culture Bearer and Cultural Specialist for Omaha Public Schools N.I.C.E. Program and Sophia F. of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe People share their knowledge in these incredible videos.
20th–21st CENTURY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS [High] Discover Native American artists with artworks from the mid-twentieth century to today. From Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) to Rick Bartow (Wiyot), explore how indigenous artists today continually adapt to change while celebrating tradition.

Native Americans: 1800s to Today

Discover artworks depicting individuals who are from diverse times and cultures and represent different types of leadership. Discuss characteristics of positive leadership roles and some qualities of negative models while encouraging students to consider their power to make a difference. [Middle/High]

Leadership: Making a Difference

Created in response to the 2020 pandemic and designed for all disciplines, The Joslyn presents thematic packages of digital resources, divided by grade levels, and aligned to Nebraska content standards. Each package features short, asynchronous virtual tours including writing prompts, looking activities, discussion starters, art-making lessons, and assessments.
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Distance Learning Packages

These tools bring art from The Joslyn&#8217;s collection into your classroom. They are versatile and appropriate for a wide range of age groups. Explore the different areas–coming soon!

Teaching Posters

Created by teachers and teaching artists, these lessons can provide sparks of inspiration to incorporate art into any discipline. Explore the different areas–coming soon!

Lesson Plans

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