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, the creation of empathy, and sensory exploration.

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 offers opportunities to explore the natural environment across time, technological innovation and inquiry, states of matter, force and motion, energy, and perception.

ARTSBUILD Imagine! PROGRAM – 5TH GRADE

ArtsBuild Imagine! program continues to evolve to serve Hamilton County Schools students, connecting them to the arts for more than a decade.

Imagine!, an arts education program created by ArtsBuild in 2010, gives students an early, systematic introduction to the arts and local arts organizations. Through the program, all public elementary schools in Hamilton County can send their students (grades K-5) on a field trip to experience the arts at no cost to families or the school. The 2022-2023 school year is the first full year that Fifth Grade will participate in the program.

Each grade level is paired with the following program partners:

Kindergarten – Creative Discovery Museum
First Grade – Chattanooga Theatre Centre
Second Grade – Chattanooga Ballet
Third Grade – Chattanooga Symphony & Opera
Fourth Grade – SoLit Theatre Express
Fifth Grade – Sculpture Fields at Montague Park
Fifth Grade – Hunter Museum of American Art

Teachers appreciate participating in the Imagine! program because the arts experiences integrate well with state standard curriculum to enhance learning in the classroom. Kelly Shimel, Fine Arts Coordinator for Hamilton County Schools, says, “Arts education and programming helps students develop vital communication and problem-solving skills. Through the support of ArtsBuild, all Hamilton County School elementary school students have access to arts programming which provides equitable access to arts experiences that help our students thrive and experience a future without limits! We are also excited that field trips will resume this year, as nothing can quite replace experiencing the arts in a hands-on or physical performance setting.”

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

ApplY TO THE HUNTER FELLOWS PROGRAM

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!

August: Art by Hands On Art History Students at Walker State Prison

September: Howard High School

October: CCA and Wauhatchie Forest School

November: Wauhatchie Forest School and Normal Park

December: Walker Valley High School

January: East Lake 6-8th grade Art

February: Hunter Teen Artists

March: Signal Mountain Middle High School

April: Open

May: Open

June: Hunter Art Camp

ApplY TO EXHIBIT STUDENT WORK

VISITING MATERIALS

SCHEDULE A TOUR

STEM / STEAM GUIDE

UNWRAPPING A PIECE OF ART

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EDUCATOR RESOURCES

Enjoy these printable educator resources that focus on lessons in the classroom utilizing artwork from the Hunter Museum.

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Art, Animals, and Ecosystems

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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...