Professional Development
Professional Development
The Phillips provides in-depth professional development and resources for K-12 teachers through a variety of teacher programs. Teacher programs at The Phillips Collection use modern art to teach across the curriculum, meet National Standards of Learning, and enhance teacher comfort and ability to use art and visual literacy skills.
Upcoming Teacher Programs
Snapshot Educator Open House
This program highlights themes within Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard on Thursday, March 22 from 4-6:30pm. This special exhibition focuses on the fascinating relationship between photography and painting, featuring 19th and early 20th-century painters who used the new technology of the Kodak handheld camera to explore ideas in composition and perspective while documenting their daily lives. Educators will receive exhibition related resources, partake in a museum educator led gallery talk, and enjoy refreshments.
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Time: 4-6:30pm
Phillips Teaching Kit and Interactive Program Training Sessions
The Phillips Collection also offers professional development training sessions to schools, counties, and state curriculum divisions to accompany all of its teaching kits and online interactive educational programs.
Contact the Education Department at 202-387-2151 x247 or groups@phillipscollection.org.
George Hendrik Breitner, Girl in Red Kimono, Geesje Kwak, 1893–95. Collection RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), The Hague.
Milton Avery, March on the Balcony, 1952. ©2008 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
©2012 The Phillips Collection.
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