With the Taft Museum of Art, our art experiences promote critical thinking, creativity, and visual literacy skills. We aim to foster the development of the four Cs of 21st-century learning: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
Learn about 200 years of fabulous footwear with a virtual tour of the Taft’s special exhibition, Walk This Way | The Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, specifically designed for K-12 students. By studying the details of design and considering when, where, and how these shoes were made, students will uncover stories highlighting moments in history from new movements in art and culture, to labor activism and women’s rights. This experience will encourage students to consider how everyday objects tell stories about their unique moment in time.
With this experience students will:
Walk This Way: Every Shoe Tells a Story is adaptable for every classroom! The Taft’s virtual tour can be shared with your classroom “live” or a digital version is available for independent or asynchronous use.
Curriculum connections: Social Studies, English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Please note: due to COVID-19 activities are currently virtual only. Learn more here.
Busing assistance is available upon request for schools with demonstrated need.
Art for All provides a unique arts education experience to students who might have limited access to the arts. The program is designed for teachers whose classroom demographics demonstrate need, defined as greater than 50% of students receiving free/reduced price lunch. For this program, the Taft Museum of Art creates educational programming based on its special exhibitions.
Please note: activities are currently virtual only. Learn more here.
If you would like to participate please contact outreach@taftmuseum.org to determine if your school is eligible.
The Taft Museum of Art’s Artists Reaching Classrooms program (ARC) is a great way to enrich your curriculum and expand your students’ experience of the arts. All aspects of the program, including buses for field trips, are offered to participating schools free of charge.
ARC immerses high school art students in Cincinnati’s visual arts community and exposes them to careers in the arts. Professional artists visit classrooms to talk with the students about both the creative and practical aspects of a career in art. The program includes opportunities to visit an artist’s studio, such as a painter’s atelier, a glassworks, or a fine arts pressworks.
Students are expected to complete a research project on an object from the Taft Museum of Art’s collection, describe its history and significance, and explain why the artwork has personal appeal. Each classroom receives a set of Museum catalogues.
As a final project, students are asked to make artworks in response to the ARC experience and write artists’ statements demonstrating what they have learned. The program culminates in a professionally organized exhibition of selected student artwork.
Please note: activities are currently virtual only. Learn more here.
View this year's exhibition online.
Questions?
Contact education@taftmuseum.org or call (513) 684-4516.
Education Sponsor
Charles H. Dater Foundation
The P&G Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Children's Education Programs Generously Supported by
Joy and W.G. (Pete) Alpaugh Trust
Art For All Sponsors
Robert Gould Foundation
P&G Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Chemed Foundation
The August A. Rendigs, Jr. Foundation
Artists Reaching Classrooms Sponsor
Chemed Foundation
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