Programs

Teachers and Students

Mia supports PK-12 teachers and students with learning resources, engaging programs, interactive tours, lesson ideas, and professional development.

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School Tours

Coloring pages inspired by the artworks in Mia&#8217;s collection
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It is our mission to enrich the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world’s diverse cultures. With over 90,000 artworks, Mia’s collection includes art from six continents, spanning about 5,000 years.
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art Collection

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Google Arts &amp; Culture is an online platform and application through which the public can view high-resolution images, videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world there are also Games for kids and fun learning tools.
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Art Adventure

<h3 class="Mia-bold">Art and Migration</h3>
Explore Mia’s 2020 special exhibition with this teacher guide. Full of content, images, and questions, the guide will facilitate questions prior to your visit and once in the galleries.
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Explore artworks from around the world and across time with Teaching the Arts features. Take a deep dive into individual artworks with Objects in Focus or make connections between artworks organized around a theme with Five Facts. 
All Teaching the Arts resources include connections to other artworks and suggested classroom activities. Many of these activities can also be done at home!
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Whether in Mia’s galleries or via a slideshow at school, students will discuss local, national, and global issues prompted by artworks from Mia’s collection.
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An integration of Native voices and art into your curriculum. Native Art, Native Voices includes information about Native cultures, both past and present, and supports Minnesota state standards for visual arts and social studies/U.S. history.
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Native Art, Native Voices: A Resource for K-12 Learners

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This learning resource provides six lessons with activities designed to integrate the diverse arts of Africa into your classroom.
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Arts of Africa: A Learning Resource for K-5 Educators and Students

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These experimental STEAM lessons incorporate artworks from Mia’s collection into original lessons that can be taught in your classroom or Mia’s galleries. Where relevant, the lessons include Minnesota academic standards and the benchmarks they support.
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STEAM Lessons for Secondary Teachers and Students

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This provides a close-up look at 14 prints from Mia’s collection. This resource is designed to be relevant to visual arts, social studies, English language arts, Spanish language, and interdisciplinary lessons for students in grades 6 to 12. 
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Connect with Mia’s collection and learn more about art through worksheets and self-guided virtual tours.
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Audio stops are mini-podcasts that present many of Mia’s highlights and favorite artworks.
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Teacher Resources

School Partnership Programs

Please join us for Virtual Educators’ Evening, featuring Mia’s new Arts of Asia teaching and learning resource. Whether you’re teaching in a new virtual environment or from your classroom, we’ve got you covered with lessons and other resources designed to support the integration of Asian art and voices into your curriculum. <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/learning-resources/arts-of-asia/en">Click here</a> to learn more about the Arts of Asia resource.
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The Circle Event: How to Buy Art!; Thursday April 5, 2012; Go beyond mass-produced art offerings at home stores to express your own style through original art. Experts Tom Rassieur, curator of Prints and Drawings, and Leslie Cohan, former New York gallery owner and consultant, talk informally about making first purchases that speak to you personally.

The Circle Event: How to Buy Art!

Teacher Programs

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<h1>Teaching the Arts</h1>
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 Make Classroom Connections to a broad range of artworks from around the world and across time with “Teaching the Arts” features. Choose from “Object in Focus” features for a deep dive into a favorite artwork or “Five Facts” for thematic explorations of topics including math, music, peace, and food. All of the “Teaching the Arts” resources include connections to other artworks and suggested classroom activities.
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<a style="color: black;" href="https://artsmia-teaching-the-arts.now.sh/objects-in-focus/village-story-blanket/"> Men chop and gather wood, women turn grindstones, and a child rides on the back of a blue water buffalo. Preparations for New Year celebrations keep everyone busy in these scenes of traditional life in Laos, a country in Southeast Asia. What other activities can you find? </a>
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<a style="color: black;" href="https://artsmia-teaching-the-arts.now.sh/objects-in-focus/pedernal-from-the-ranch/">Do you have a favorite place? What is special about it? Is it a park where you spend summer days? Or maybe you like the view from a high hilltop. Perhaps you enjoy the hustle and bustle of the city. Or do you prefer being inside a quiet room? </a>
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<a style="color: black;" href="https://artsmia-teaching-the-arts.now.sh/five-facts/making-peace/">These five diverse artworks represent stories about peace.</a>
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