Resources for
Educators

Programs for Students

Teens

Teen Art Cooperative

TEEN ART COOPERATIVE is a year-long FREE program for teens focused on collaboration, creative practice and exploration. This program is for self-motivated students who are interested in learning about how a museum operates as well as how to sustain a life of creative practice [translation: be an ARTIST]. See registration page for more info. Deadline to apply is September 24!

Kids

After School @ the Factory

After School @ the Factory is a free art program for students grades 3-5. Join our Mattress Factory Teaching Artists as they lead you on creative adventures inspired by our exhibiting artists from around the world and around the corner. Each semester, students will try new techniques, experiment with materials, and engage in conversation about artists, community, and ideas.

Tours

GUIDED TOUR

Led by a Museum Educator, the GUIDED TOUR is an informative and interactive visit through the foremost museum of installation art in the United States.

The GUIDED TOUR is 90-minutes long, for up to 60 guests. $14 per adult, $10 per student or senior [62+].

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Toolkit Resources for Educators

Black Light Project

THEME: LIGHT / COLOR
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: YAYOI KUSAMA
GRADE: recommended for K-12th grade

Obliteration of Self

THEME: PATTERN
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ART / VISUAL ART
ARTIST: YAYOI KUSAMA
GRADE: recommended K-8th grade

Time Change

THEME: TIME
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ARTS / VISUAL ARTS
ARTIST: WINIFRED LUTZ
GRADE: recommended for 6th-12th grade

Alternative Drawing

THEME: MATERIAL
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: WILLIAM ANASTASI
GRADE: recommended 9th-12th grade

Analog Social Networking

THEME: SPACE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: JOHN PEÑA
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Art for a Garden

THEME: NATURE / COMMUNITY
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART / HISTORY
ARTIST: WINIFRED LUTZ / ROLF JULIUS
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Documenting Nature

THEME: NATURE / TECHNOLOGY
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: DANNY BRACKEN
GRADE: recommended 5th-12th grade

Understanding Rainbows

THEME: LIGHT
SUBJECT: SCIENCE
ARTIST: DANNY BRACKEN / JAMES TURRELL
GRADE: recommended 1st-4th grade

Community Building

THEME: COMMUNITY
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: RYDER HENRY
GRADE: recommended 3rd-12th grade

Make a Place

THEME: PLACE
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: CHIHARU SHIOTA
GRADE: recommended PreK-5th grade

Life Cycle

THEME: NATURE
SUBJECT: SCIENCE
ARTIST: DANNY BRACKEN / WINIFRED LUTZ
GRADE: recommended 3rd-12th grade

Sculpting with Light

THEME: LIGHT
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: JAMES TURRELL / YAYOI KUSAMA
GRADE: recommended PreK-5th grade

Design + Function

THEME: DESIGN
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: VANESSA SICA + CHRIS KASABACH / ALLAN WEXLER
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Collection Mobile

THEME: COLLECTIONS
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: RYDER HENRY / BILL WOODROW
GRADE: recommended PreK-3rd grade

ME! Journals + Collages

THEME: IDENTITY
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: RYDER HENRY / CHIHARU SHIOTA / JOHN PEÑA / YAYOI KUSAMA
GRADE: recommended PreK-1st grade

Everyday Objects

THEME: COLLECTION
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: JOHN MORRIS
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

The Future

THEME: TIME
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ARTS / VISUAL ART
ARTIST: JACOB DOUENIAS + ETHAN FRIER
GRADE: recommended 3rd-12th grade

Collective Family Memory

THEME: MEMORY
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: JULIE SCHENKELBERG
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Line Study

THEME: MATERIAL / LINE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART / LINE
ARTIST: ANNE LINDBERG
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Guide Lines

THEME: LINE
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: ANNE LINDBERG / CHIHARU SHIOTA
GRADE: recommended PreK-3rd grade

Comparing Perspectives

THEME: COMPARISON / PERSPECTIVE
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ARTS / VISUAL ART
ARTIST: BILL SMITH
GRADE: recommended 9th-12th grade

Zoom In + Zoom Out

THEME: PERSPECTIVE
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: BILL SMITH
GRADE: recommended PreK-3rd grade

Perspective

THEME: PERSPECTIVE
SUBJECT: GEOMETRY / VISUAL ARTS ARTIST: STEPHEN BRAM
GRADE: Recommended for grades 5 - 12

Calming Space

THEME: SPACE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTISTS: DESIGN 99: Gina Reichert & Mitch Cope
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Telling Stories

THEME: STORIES
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ARTS
ARTIST: BILL WOODROW / GREER LANKTON
GRADE: recommended 3rd-12th grade

Place Based Story

THEME: STORIES
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ARTS
ARTIST: BILL WOODROW / GREER LANKTON
GRADE: recommended 3rd-12th grade

Installation Box

THEME: COLOR / PATTERN
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: YAYOI KUSAMA
GRADE: recommended PreK-3rd grade

Sound Circle

THEME: SOUND
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: ROLF JULIUS
GRADE: recommended PreK-3rd grade

Shape Mural

THEME: SHAPES
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: YAYOI KUSAMA / JAMES TURRELL
GRADE: recommended PreK-5th grade

Arrows

THEME: SPACE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: JOHN PEÑA
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Object Explosion

THEME: SPACE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART / MATH
ARTIST: JOHN PEÑA
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Movement Story

THEME: MOVEMENT
SUBJECT: EARLY CHILDHOOD
ARTIST: BENJAMIN SOTA
GRADE: recommended PreK-3rd grade

This is Just to Tell You

THEME: MEMORY / IDENTITY / STORIES
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART / LANGUAGE ARTS
ARTIST: JOHN PEÑA
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Fantasy Stories

THEME: STORIES
SUBJECT: LANGUAGE ARTS
ARTIST: RYDER HENRY / BENJAMIN SOTA
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Space Memory

THEME: SITE-SPECIFIC / MEMORY / SPACE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: KATHLEEN MONTGOMERY
GRADE: recommended 8th-12th grade

Inner/Outer Portrait

THEME: IDENTITY
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: GREER LANKTON
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Your Space Portrait

THEME: IDENTITY
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: GREER LANKTON
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Create Your Own Garden

THEME: NATURE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART / MUSIC
ARTIST: WINIFRED LUTZ / ROLF JULIUS
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Viewfinder

THEME: PERSPECTIVE
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: SARAH OPPENHEIMER / WINIFRED LUTZ / JAMES TURRELL
GRADE: recommended 5th-12th grade

Thinking About Place

THEME: SITE-SPECIFIC
SUBJECT: VISUAL ART
ARTIST: WINIFRED LUTZ / JENE HIGHSTEIN / SARAH OPPENHEIMER
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Community Map

THEME: COMMUNITY
SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES / VISUAL ART
ARTIST: JESSICA FRELINGHUYSEN
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade

Community Scavenger Hunt

THEME: COMMUNITY
SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES / VISUAL ART
ARTIST: JESSICA FRELINGHUYSEN
GRADE: recommended 6th-12th grade