The Optimism of Colour: William Perehudoff, a retrospective
This Educators’ Guide was written to accompany guided tours of the exhibition, but it can be readily used in classrooms in conjunction with images on an extensive website. It investigates the paintings of Saskatoon’s most famous abstract painter throughout his 60-year career. After exploring a wide variety of artistic styles, he began producing purely abstract work in the 1960s. Activities introduce students to the history of abstraction and provide many fun ways to make abstract art.
James Henderson: Wicite Owapi Wicasa
This Educators’ Guide was written to accompany guided tours of the exhibition, but it can be readily used in classrooms in conjunction with images on an extensive website. It explores the life of one of the first nationally and internationally famous artists in Saskatchewan, who painted landscapes of the Qu’Appelle Valley and portraits of Indigenous peoples. Activities are divided into two main thematic units, Lands and People. Students can learn about landscape art and portraiture, symbols, stereotypes, oral traditions and identity.
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SlammED Educator Resource
SlammED—presented in spring 2008—is a project that utilizes slam and hip-hop-inspired poetry to explore issues that are relevant to youth while allowing participants to gain valuable skills in poetry writing and performance.
Click here to download SlammED Educator Resource as a PDF document (800KB)
Viewing and Representing Teacher Resource
This school program develops art-viewing strategies for Grade 1 to 6 students and their teachers, and embraces the two recent additions to Saskatchewan Education’s Language Arts curriculum, Viewing and Representing.
Sk8art Teacher Resource
The Sk8art project is a cross-disciplinary teacher’s resource that uses skateboarding as its inspiration. The goal of this project is to emphasize and validate youth content and culture in school curriculum. This resource was created in a collaboration between The Mendel Art Gallery, The Saskatoon Foundation Artsmarts Program, The City of Saskatoon, Mount Royal Collegiate, and The Saskatoon Skatepark Corporation.
DiverCity Teacher Resource
The aim of the DiverCity documentary film project is to reflect the lived experiences of immigrant students through an inclusive model. The model seeks to actualize curriculum by making its objectives meaningful and purposeful to students.
