From the Beach Museum of Art collection

Packets contain slides, script, biographies, activities
Animals of the Plains – Kindergarte/1st grade
Work on the Plains – Grades 2 & 3
The Face in Art – Grades 5 & 6
Images of Native Americans –Grades 3 and up

Miscellaneous books and audiotapes related to the collection and art history are also avaliable.

For Purchase

Museum Catalogues from previous exhibitions ($2)
Poster - Our Good Earth, by John Steuart Curry ($1)
The Prairie Through New Eyes: Arts Integrated Curriculum for Pre-K-8 ($10)
Beyond Oz: Children’s Book Illustrations Literacy Crate Curriculum (Free)

Boxes

Kansas Quilts - includes slides, samples, activities, and “Gathered in Time” video
African Art – slides, postcards, African Mask
Native American/Western Art - includes slides of The Hill Collection of American Western Art, cowboy music, activities
Prairie Through New Eyes - curriculum book, story books, Patricia Duncan materials
Beyond Oz: Literacy Crates (levels 1-4)
Auguste Rodin - Teacher’s guide and slides from the Cantor Foundation

Videos

Approaching a Painting – Elementary Art Appreciation
Artists At Work: A Film on the New Deal Art Projects
Impressionism: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890
Relief Printing – Art Smart Videos
Drawing for All – Basic Shapes
Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Indian Art and Its Evolution
Frontier Visionary: George Catlin and the Plains Indians
Who is the Artist? Benton, Hopper, Wood, Painters of the American Scene
American Visions Video Series - 8 part series on American Art narrated by Robert Hughes - PBS
Nature Art Skills for Kids
20th –Century American Art from the Whitney Museum of American Art Masks from Many Cultures
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting – The Renaissance
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting – The Age of Revolution (Impressionists and Post Impressionists)
Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting - Modernism
How to Visit and Art Museum
Art Education in Action (Getty DBAE) – Aesthetics;Art History & Art Criticism;
Integrating the Art Disciplines
Thomas Hart Benton from Ken Burns America
African Art
Half Past Autumn: Gordon Parks (HBO special)
Masaccio: A View of Mankind
Chihuly Glass Master
Videos continued
Chihuly Over Venice (PBS)
Rene Stout - lecture 11/4/99
Kansas Art Today - Oscar Larmer
Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution (Kathy Brew & Roberto Guerra, Exit Art, NYC)
Starting Small - video and book
Shadow of Hate - video and support materials
Photography 101 parts 1 and 2 –“ Mother Nature’s Studio” and “Landscape Country”
Camille Claudel (student of Rodin’s)
American Photography: A Century of Images
Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs ( accompanied by exhibition catalogue)
The Impressionists – Highlights from A&E network

Art reproductions

Currier and Ives - Winter in the Country
Andrew Wyeth - 6 seasonal prints
Grandma Moses - 3 prints seasonal prints
Art Reproductions Series by John Canaday/Metropolitan Museum of Art (books and prints)
20th Century Art – 1950s-1990s (12)
Mask Prints (12)