
HUNTER MUSEUM & EDUCATORS
English Language Arts & Literacy: Artworks can be used as texts to investigate character, setting, mood, and tone, as well as to ignite thinking on rhetorical arguments, creating empathy, and exploring the senses.
Social Studies: We collect objects from the United States beginning with the contact between Native Americans and Europeans to the present day. Our artworks can be used as documents for discussions on colonialism, slavery, industrialism, culture and traditions, government, economics, community, immigration, urbanism, civil rights, and globalization, among other topics.
Mathematics: Our artworks are sites for exploration of shape, line, scale, pattern, proportion, balance, and composition.
Science: Our collection allows opportunities to explore our natural environment across time, technological innovation and inquiry, the states of matter, force and motion, energy and perception.
HUNTER FELLOWS
Hunter Education Fellows are a cohort of teachers collaborating with the Hunter Museum to create engaging curriculum integrated with and focused on the arts. Fellows explore topics that stimulate reflective, equitable learning in the classroom through professional development workshops throughout the school year.
Each semester, the Hunter partners with teachers interested in connecting with the museum collection. Fellows have the opportunity to bring students to the museum at a discounted rate and to showcase student work in the museum with a celebration of their talent at the end of each semester.
For more information or questions email cbespalec@huntermuseum.org
STUDENT EXHIBITIONS
The Hunter offers space to exhibit student work on a monthly basis to celebrate the hard work and creative talents of young artists.
Tell us how you have responded to Hunter Museum’s collection! The Education Studio Hall Student Gallery provides a 33 x 4 ft. display wall space that can accommodate 2-D works and limited 3-D works that do not project out more than six inches and that can be hung on a flat wall with nails or push pins. Documentation of work and the lesson process is also encouraged!
Please fill out the following application which contains detailed information about how to hang work at the Hunter. Please email Manager of School and Community Programs, Kris Bespalec at cbespalec@huntermuseum.org, after the form has been filled out to confirm your application was received and to finalize plans for installation if approved. Thank you!
January: East Lake Academy of Fine Arts
February: Hunter Teen Artists
March: Bowman Hills School
April: Pending
May: The Howard School and Hunter Education Fellows
June: Hunter Art Camp
July: Hunter Art Camp
August: Open
September: Open
October: Open
November: Open
December: Open

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EDUCATOR RESOURCES
Enjoy these printable educator resources that focus on lessons in the classroom utilizing artwork from the Hunter Museum.
Beyond the Frame: Celebrating 70 Years of Collecting
Beyond the Frame: Celebrating 70 Years of Collecting Beyond the Frame: Celebrating 70 Years of Collecting features some of our guests’ favorite pieces, as well as many of the Hunter’s newest acquisitions. Beginning in 1952, the same year the museum opened its doors,...
Art, Animals, and Ecosystems
Art, Animals, and Ecosystems Animals, both real and imaginary, have played an important role in art. From scientific illustrations documenting native wildlife to raven rattles* used in important ceremonies, art helps us understand and connect with the natural world....
Noel W. Anderson: American Symbols
Noel W. Anderson: American SymbolsSymbolic imagery can be a subtle and very effective means of communicating ideas in both art and literature. After exploring examples of symbols in the Hunter's permanent collection and viewing the symbolic imagery in Noel Anderson’s...
Plein Air Painting – Exploring Mediterranea
GRADES 3-6
Plein Air painting is the art of painting outdoors where artists can connect directly with the natural world.
Textile and Calligraphy Arts of Morocco
GRADES 3-12
Looking at the art of Lalla Essaydi.
Lalla Essaydi – Education and Family Guide
GRADES 6-12
Education and Family Guide exploring the work of artist Lalla Essaydi
Lalla Essaydi and Collage
GRADES 6-12
Discuss and analyze representations of women in media and art.
Family & Educators Guide to the Ed Johnson Memorial
GRADES 4-12
Designed to support discussing racial violence and lynching in the United States and specifically in Hamilton County, TN.
Cultural Understanding and Critical Thinking
GRADES k-5
Focus on Romare Bearden’s artwork and visual conversation.
Assemble a Story: Narrative Art
GRADES K-5
Explore how images and words contribute to the meaning of a story.
Collage and Print Media Text
GRADES K-5
Exploring collage through layering, overlapping, and combining disparate elements to create new meanings.
Marbled Paper Activity
ALL AGES
Use easy-to-find materials to make decorative craft paper.
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