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MoNA's Art Lesson Archives: A Treasure Trove of Lessons Featuring Underrepresented Northwest Artists
By Ellie Cross, Community Outreach Coordinator
Learn more about MoNA’s Art Lesson Archives, a free digital resource featuring an expanding collection of comprehensive lesson plans inspired by Northwest artists.
This resource has been in the making for almost two decades and is one of many legacies of our MoNA Link School Partnership Program, boasting a unique collection of 85+ lessons that fulfill Washington State Arts Learning Standards and provide educators across the globe with everything they need to guide their students on a journey of discovering artists from the Northwest!
Director’s Notes Issue No.2
The Outside In Gallery is a dedicated space to include and represent the voices in our community. This space is comparatively small, and yet Migrant Youth / Chicana Perspectives: Living in Multiple Spaces reaches the goal to expand it, both in-depth and breadth, as it turns it into an emotional journey of self-discovery, representation, and empowerment.
Learn more about this exhibition with our Executive Director, Stefano Catalani, and join him as he interviews photographer Marilyn Montúfar, who connected, mentored, and photographed the youth represented in this exhibition.
Drawing: A Language for Learning
By Nicolette Harrington, MoNA Link Coordinator
The interdependence of words and images is the most powerful force of intellectual and emotional development we have. When you join words and images, a deeper meaning is possible. The arts can provide ways to build perception, confidence, and strength when the visual helps students acquire language skills.
A Conversation with artists Meg Holgate and Steve Klein
Learn more about our current exhibition A Precarious Edge, as Stefano Catalani, MoNA's Executive Director, interviews the artists behind the work.
Director’s Notes Issue No. 1
This is the first of many letters—part journal, part bulletin—I will be sharing with you as the new Executive Director of the Museum of Northwest Art. The Director's Notes will be an opportunity for you, as a member and supporter of the museum, to hear it first from me, whether we engage in conversations about exhibitions here at the museum or in other venues in the Pacific Northwest, MoNA's outstanding collection, or the role of the museum within the community as the place where the audience becomes an experience in and for itself.