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A Few Good Stories: Jaime Guerrero

Jaime Guerrero
This Educator Guide is about glass blowing, the dynamic work of Jaime Guerrero, Mayan and Aztec iconography, and the history of glass work in art and architecture.
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A Matter of Access: NIAD

A Matter of Access: NIAD
This Educator Guide addresses the notion of "outsider art" and "art of the insane" amidst the larger question of artistic practice.
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All Natural: Jim Denevan and Chris Drury

Jim Denevan and Chris Drury's art
This Educator Guide is about the history and tradition of artists making work in and about the natural environment.
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Art Frees the Soul: Sixth Street Photography Workshop

Art Frees the Soul: Sixth Street Photography Workshop
This Educator Guide is about the history of photography.
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Art Goes Back to School: Young Audiences of Northern California

Art Goes Back to School: Young Audiences of Northern California
This Educator Guide explores the history of arts education in California and the Bay Area and provides a wide array of local resources.
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Art Meets Pop Culture: Keith Knight

Art Meets Pop Culture: Keith Knight
This Educator Guide explores the history and form of the cartoon.
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Artist in Search of a Medium: Jonathon Keats

Artist in Search of a Medium: Jonathon Keats
This Educator Guide explores the history of Conceptual art and the role of science in contemporary art.
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By Hand: Gary Stevens

By Hand: Gary Stevens
This Educator Guide is about the history and tradition of wood carving.
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Collectors and Their Collections: Rene di Rosa

Collectors and Their Collections: Rene di Rosa
This Educator Guide addresses collecting as a personal preference, public tradition, and national obsession.
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Educational Tool: Approaching Your Bias

This Educational Tool provides tips for facing the inherent challenges of teaching about contemporary artists and their work.
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Educational Tool: Arts Assessment

This educational tool describes the role of assessment in a standards-based visual and performing arts classroom. This document also provides several options for substantive forms of assessment in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Arts Classroom Tips

This educational tool provides classroom management tips, teaching strategies, and pedagogies for classrooms dedicated to Visual Arts, Music, Dance, and/or Theater.
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Educational Tool: Connections, Relations and Applications

This educational tool provides direction for making connections between the various arts disciplines, between the arts and other subject areas, and careers in the arts.
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Educational Tool: Developing Arts Programs

This educational tool is a comprehensive list of foundations and organizations offering funding for arts education programs in Northern California.
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Educational Tool: Literacy-Based Instructional Strategies

This Educational Tool provides literacy-based instructional strategies that may be used in conjunction with arts media screenings in the classroom.
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Educational Tool: Media Literacy

This Spark Educational tool is an informational document about media literacy providing ideas for engaging your students with media-viewing activities.
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Educational Tool: Media Tips

This Educational Tool provides techniques for using Spark in the classroom including critical viewing tips, media production terms and concepts, and talking points about media production and media literacy.
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Educational Tool: Multiple Intelligences

This Educational Tool describes Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and how it relates to Spark's educational programming and resources.
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Educational Tool: Visual Arts Vocabulary

This document is a comprehensive vocabulary list related to Visual Arts.
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Elevating the Everyday: Garry Knox Bennett

Elevating the Everyday: Garry Knox Bennett
This Educator Guide addresses the history of art furniture.
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Elevating the Everyday: Laurel True

Elevating the Everyday: Laurel True
This Educator Guide addresses the history and traditions of mosaic art and mosaic murals.
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Elevating the Everyday: Richard Shaw

Elevating the Everyday: Richard Shaw
This Educator Guide traces the history of the trompe l'oeil technique in art up through the Bay Area movement of realism in ceramics.
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Fame: Chris Johanson

Fame: Chris Johanson
This Educator Guide explores the history and tradition of street-based works and the field of painting.
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From Life: Viola Frey

From Life: Viola Frey
This Educator Guide is about the history of ceramics and the contributions of Bay Area artists, including Frey.
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In Respect of Nature: Roman Loranc

Roman Loranc
This Educator Guide is about photography, landscape photography and Romanticism as a creative approach in art making.
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Legacies: Julia Parker

Legacies: Julia Parker
This Educator Guide traces the history of basket weaving in the West Coast Indian populations.
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Looking East: Thai Bui

Looking East: Thai Bui
This Educator Guide explores the history and traditions of Bay Area Funk, Conceptual art and Minimalism.
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Needlework: Anna Von Mertens

Needlework: Anna Von Mertens
This Educator Guide traces the history of quilting from the early 18th century through the present day, including group quilts, slave quilts, and contemporary quilts.
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Needlework: Don Ed Hardy

Needlework: Don Ed Hardy
This Educator Guide explores the tradition of tattooing from the earliest civilizations to the present day.
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New American Landscape: Trevor Paglen

Paglen
This Educator Guide is addresses activist art through Paglens work.
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Out and About: Todd Hido

Todd Hido
This Educator Guide introduces students to Hido's art and provides an historical and critical context for the artists’ evocative images of Bay Area homes and posed female models.
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Paint x 3: Hung Liu

Hung Liu
This Educator Guide addresses the different techniques Liu blends in her work, including history painting, and the high photorealism employed by the Communist government of the Cultural Revolution in China.
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Paint x 3: Robert Bechtle

Bechtle
This Educator Guide address the history and evolution of photorealism in painting.
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Playing with Technology: Joe Mangrum

Mangrum
This Educator Guide is about land and envioronmental art, and the cultural significance of mandalas.
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Preservation: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Preservation: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
This Educator Guide addresses the scientific and artistic issues of preserving and conserving works of art.
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Remembrance: Ann Chamberlain

Remembrance: Ann Chamberlain
This Educator Guide discusses the history of public monuments and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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Spark 501: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ferlinghetti
This Educator Guide includes language arts lesson plans related to visual critique and poetry analysis.
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Spark 504: David Hevel

Hevel
This Educator Guide includes a hands-on subversive collage activity and discussion points related to popluar culture and the influence of historical art traditions on contemporary art practices.
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Spark 505: Adam5100

Adam5100
This Educator Guide discusses Aboriginal art practices and includes hands-on activities related to political printmaking and a critical writing assignment.
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Spark 505: Caleb Duarte

duarte
This Educator Guide includes writing activities related to the idea of home, and an art activity in which students will build small structures out of found objects.
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Spark 510: Jesus Aguilar

Aguilar
This Educator Guide includes a brief history of media art and analytical activties related to audience responses to this ever-growing genre of visual art.
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Spark 511: Seyed Alavi

Alavi
This Educator Guide includes analytical activites based on the use of text in artwork and research and discussion-based activities about public and conceptual art.
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Spark 515: Mitra Fabian

Fabian
This Educator Guide explores the work of sculptor Mitra Fabian, her contemporaries, and pioneer female sculptor Eva Hesse. Students will participate in writing, visual art, critical thinking, and mathematical activities.
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Spark 516: Favianna Rodriguez

Rodriguez
This Educator Guide includes activities related to analyzing artwork that supports social change and discusses the history of the Chicano Arts Movement (El Movimiento).
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Spark 608: Victor Cartagena

Cartagena
This Educator Guide explores the history of the Salvadoran civil war and the concepts and themes in Victor Cartagena's art installations.
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Spark 701: Wayne Thiebaud

Thiebaud
This Educator Guide provides historical information about the Pop Art movement and how it relates to Thiebaud's work. Also included are hands-on and discussion activities.
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Spark 705: Kerry James Marshall

Marshall
This Educator Guide provides information about contemporary artists' reimagined forms of history painting. Also included are lesson plan ideas and handouts of line drawings of the murals for students to study and color.
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Spark: Amalia Mesa-Bains

Day of the Dead
This Educator Guide provides information about the history of Dia de Los Muertos and includes hands-on and discussion activities for the classroom.
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Taking Craft to the Limit: Nikolas Weinstein

Taking Craft to the Limit: Nikolas Weinstein
This Educator Guide introduces glass as an art medium, historically situating glass work.
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The Family Business: Ruth Asawa

The Family Business: Ruth Asawa
This Educator Guide is dedicated to highlighting arts education in the Bay Area and the model programs established by Asawa and her family.
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The Fine Art of Collecting: John Held Jr.

The Fine Art of Collecting: John Held Jr.
This Educator Guide explores the history and many forms of Mail art and stamps.
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The Grey Eminences: David Ireland

The Grey Eminences: David Ireland
This Educator Guide explores the history of Conceptual art and Ireland's contributions.
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The Influence of Memory: Christopher Brown

Brown
This Educator Guide is about figurative painting and the evocation of memory in art making.
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The Puppet Show: Sandow Birk

Sandow Birk
This Educator Guide is about history painting and storytelling.
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The Young and the Restless: The Oxbow School

The Young and the Restless: The Oxbow School
This Educator Guide is about Oxbow and its sister programs - intensives that involve high-level studio work and critique for students in an atelier environment.
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Threads: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood

Threads: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood
This Educator Guide explores the history and traditions of textiles in various cultures, as well as the US/Mexican border.
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Through the Lens: Kerry Laitala

Through the Lens: Kerry Laitala
This Educator Guide is about the history of experimental and avant-garde filmmaking.
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Trailblazers: Paul Kos

Trailblazers: Paul Kos
This Educator Guide explores the history of conceptual art.
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Transplanting a Tradition: Li Huayi

Transplanting a Tradition: Li Huayi
This Educator Guide explores the Chinese Cultural Revolution and Landscape Painting as well as contemporary painting.
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West Oakland: Bruce Beasley

This Educator Guide is about the work of Bruce Beasley and the history of modernist sculpture.
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Work in Progress: Andy Goldsworthy

Work in Progress: Andy Goldsworthy
This Educator Guide is about Goldsworthy and the history of artists working with the landscape and environment.
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Works on Paper: Enrique Chagoya

Works on Paper: Enrique Chagoya
This Educator Guide is about the history and traditions of printmaking and political humor in Mexico and the US.
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Works on Paper: Julie Chen

Works on Paper: Julie Chen
This Educator Guides explores the history of the book from scrolls through the contemporary artists book.
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