Asian Art Museum for Teachers

03/08/2022

Join us on-site, Samsung Hall, March 10 from 5 - 6:30 PM as we host the SF Girl's Choir book club and preview performance around the book "Tomorrow’s Memories: A Diary by Angeles Monrayo".

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San Francisco Girls Chorus’s Community book club series is centered around Tomorrow’s Memories: A Diary by Angeles Monrayo, the true diary of Monrayo, a Filipina girl who immigrated to Hawaii and California in the 1920’s. The diary is the inspiration of our newly commissioned choral-opera by M...

11/09/2021

Join us with the Los Gatos Library as we host a fun, interactive Storytelling program for our Pre-K students.

This program will include artful looking, reading a story from a select Asian culture, and a guided activity by one of the Museum's Educators.

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The Los Gatos Library is excited to host a fun, interactive Storytelling program with the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco! This program will include artful looking, reading a story from a select Asian culture...

08/30/2021

Teachers––We are beyond grateful to have built this Facebook community with you. While it has been a useful tool to share information and resources with our teachers, we have decided to sunset the Asian Art Museum for Teachers page.

Instead, we will remain in contact with you all through the Education Newsletter and the Asian Art Museum page. If you haven’t yet, please subscribe to the Education Newsletter (link below).

For further inquiry, please contact us at [email protected].

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07/07/2021

"Too often, Asian American stories are absent from classroom libraries. In this article, one educator explains why this gap is so harmful—and recommends ways to fix it."

Too often, Asian American stories are absent from classroom libraries. In this article, one educator explains why this gap is so harmful—and recommends ways to fix it.

06/28/2021

After Hope: Videos of Resistance is an exploration of the expressions and legacies of hope within contemporary art. The exhibition consists of more than fifty short, single-channel videos, drawn from recommendations by artists, curators, and organizations across the world. The result is a six-hour looping chronicle of hope that is eclectic in nature, rather than unified by a single narrative.

After Hope: Videos of Resistance is an exploration of the expressions and legacies of hope within contemporary art. The exhibition consists of more than fift...

06/23/2021

Q***r immigrant Asian filmmaker Madeleine Lim joins us virtually to screen two short films, including her doc on San Francisco Beat-era artist Bernice Bing.

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco houses one of the most comprehensive Asian art collections in the world, with more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection. Stroll through 6,000 years of art and culture.

06/16/2021

"These books help students explore historical and contemporary experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities."

These books help students explore historical and contemporary experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

06/09/2021

Celebrated writer Pico Iyer discusses his recent books — including "A Beginner's Guide to Japan" — with Paula Arai and Robert Mintz.

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco houses one of the most comprehensive Asian art collections in the world, with more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection. Stroll through 6,000 years of art and culture.

06/07/2021

Huynh is the fifth National Youth Poet Laureate, presented by New York-based organization Urban Word.

06/04/2021

Bernice Bing was a q***r, Asian American Abstract Expressionist artist who did not gain the same recognition as her male colleagues of the era.

In honor of Pride Month, learn more about Bing and intersectionality.

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco houses one of the most comprehensive Asian art collections in the world, with more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection. Stroll through 6,000 years of art and culture.