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TEACHER & EDUCATOR RESOURCES

Educators and students have the opportunity to access our museum from their homes or classrooms.

These teacher guides serve to prepare you and your students for an engaging visit to the exhibition and provide activities and lessons that can be adapted for the classroom.

Each exhibition has its own Teacher Guide geared towards middle and high school students, a Virtual Tour, and a hands-on art activity geared towards younger children and families. All of which can be found below.

ABOUT MUSEUM ON THE MOVE

Museum on the Move (MOTM) is NSU Art Museum’s innovative educational program that provides free school group visits for qualifying Broward County students. During interactive exhibition tours, students engage in dynamic dialogue with Museum educators, while exercising their creative, analytical, critical, and observational skills.

This interdisciplinary art program provides:

FREE admission (for up to 75 students per visit)
FREE transportation (for qualifying schools)
FREE interactive docent-led tours of exhibitions
FREE STEAM-based art activities in the galleries
FREE sketchbooks

Click Here to apply for a Museum on the Move Field Trip

Major funding for Museum on the Move is provided by The Jerry Taylor & Nancy Bryant Foundation, The Amaturo Family Foundation, Inc., Lillian S. Wells Foundation Inc., David and Susan Samrick Foundation, Wege Foundation, Paddock Family Foundation, Wells Fargo, Beaux Arts, and Friends of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.

Kathia St. Hilaire: Immaterial Being

The Exhibition Kathia St. Hilaire: Immaterial Being addresses Kathia St. Hilaire’s personal transcultural experience and material experimentation. Her interest in matter and process goes beyond a formal, visual concern, as it simultaneously creates a space in which to address the concept of the painting’s surface as it connects to the understanding of skin, color and race. These critical notions are at the center of the artist’s practice and the broader Haitian narrative she seeks to tell.

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Malcolm Morley: Shipwreck

Malcolm Morley: Shipwreck combines Malcolm Morley’s signature subjects and highlights the mastery of color and composition. His painting technique, which he called ‘Superrealism’, revolves around his exquisite rendering of details based on photographic sources. Morley consistently selected images that were compositionally related to art historical painting genres, such as complex battle scenes, or held autobiographical connotations. As Morley stated about his paintings, the “hook is the image, but the real subject” is the act of painting itself. Like his close colleagues Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and conceptual artist Richard Artschwager, Morley’s paintings of photographic subjects yielded compositions that are simultaneously figurative and abstract. His experimental approach to painting helped to open up the potential of Modern art for the subsequent generation of post-modern artists, including Julian Schnabel, Albert Oehlen and David Salle.

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HAPPY!

The Happy! Exhibition focuses on contemporary artists who address the pursuit of happiness as life’s goal. The artworks take the viewer on a journey through a range of emotions working towards happiness. Through a variety of media from painting, sculpture, installation, video, and more, this exhibit takes you along on the artist’s journey towards a sense of well-being and happiness.

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I PAINT MY REALITY SURREALISM

I Paint My Reality: Surrealism in Latin America explores a time in which the Surrealist art movement, associated with dreams and the unconscious mind, found its way around the world. Eventually, the epicenter of the art movement shifted from Europe to Latin America and the United States, where many artists sought refuge from the war. Contrary to the views of the European artists, Latin American artworks reflected the artists’ world and their history, rather than dreams. This exhibition joins together European artists, some of which made a permanent home in places like Mexico, and Latin American artists to explore the evolution of the movement and the influences the artists had on each other and on contemporary art today.

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TRANSITIONS & TRANSFORMATION

Transitions and Transformations is an ongoing exhibition comprised of works from the Museum’s permanent collection, new acquisitions, and works on loan. The works have varying underlying themes ranging from history and identity to human perception of nature and the exploration of paint. Many of them deal with the passage of time or physical changes.

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