North Carolina Museum of Art: Education: Teachers

With 5,000 years of art, 164 acres of park, and a full menu of outreach services, the North Carolina Museum of Art has something for everyone. Whatever subject or grade you teach—whether your classroom looks out over the ocean, a cityscape, or the mountains—our resources and programs can help enrich your curriculum plans.

Teacher Programs

Teacher Open House

Get to know the Museum better at this fun event. Sample our programs, collections, and cuisine with colleagues from across the area. Thank you to all teachers who make this our most popular program of the year. Check back for future open house event.

Teacher Workshops

Teacher workshops pose compelling questions about art. The answers we find inspire strategies for integrating the Museum's collection into art and core subject areas. Click the workshop title for details.

Spring 2008 Workshops

Identity: Connecting themes from Young Adult Literature and Art
CANCELLED | Saturday, April 12 | 9:30 a.m.–Noon | CANCELLED

Identity: The Artist Grows Old
Saturday, April 26 | 9:30 a.m.–Noon

Teacher In-services

Plan a professional development day at the North Carolina Museum of Art for a group of 10 to 20 teachers. Choose from three topics: Reading Art, which providesreading credit; Art as a Primary Source, a social studies approach; and Art and Nature, an art and science-oriented program. .5 CEU provided. For more information about programs and fees, contact Jill Taylor or call (919) 664-6748.

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Online Resources

E-Newsletter

Just for teachers. The Museum teacher e-newsletter makes it easy for you to stay informed about upcoming teacher workshops, new classroom resources, free give-aways and more.

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Teachers’ Lounge

Learning Center

Good Company

The Collection Connection Learning Center located on the Entrance-level of the Museum is temporarily closed. The center will reopen with a new installation on the Main-level in early summer. The Collection Connection is made possible by Progress Energy.

Be sure to keep up-to-date with everything going on at the Museum through eView, our monthly e-mail newsletter. Register here.

Library

The Art Reference Library of the North Carolina Museum of Art is a non-circulating research collection open to the public. The Library's emphasis is on Western European and American art, in support of the Museum's primary collections. The Library holds approximately 37,000 volumes, including books, auction and exhibition catalogs, and nearly 100 current periodical subscriptions.

Funding & Partnership Opportunities

Bus Scholarships
Love to bring your class to the Museum but lack the funds for busses? The NCMA has a limited number of bus scholarships available to help your school defray the costs of a museum field trip. Call (919) 664-6820 for details.

Support for the Bus Scholarship Fund is provided by Legacy Custom Homes and Genworth Financial.

Catawba Valley Endowment
A limited number of scholarships are available on a first-come basis for teachers in Alexander, Iredell, Caldwell, Burke, and Catawba counties. Scholarships may be used for workshops, student projects, art supplies, and in-bound trips to the NCMA. Funds are also available to pay substitutes for teachers wishing to enroll in a workshop.

The Catawba Valley Fund for support of programming in Alexander, Iredell, Caldwell, Burke, and Catawba counties.

Free Classroom Materials
Subscribe to the NCMA teacher e-newsletter to receive notices about periodic free classroom materials (and stay informed about upcoming teacher workshops and new classroom resources as well). To subscribe, fill out this form.