San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

Education

The Citigroup Foundation, The Sterling Turner Foundation, the First National Bank of Mertzon, and the Old Chicken Farm Art Center are proud sponsors of our Regional Art Education Program. Target is the sponsor of our Art Thursdays program, and Ethicon is the sponsor for Family Days.

Programs

Art Thursdays
Birthday Parties
Family Days
Spring Break
Summer for Kids
Pachyderm Presentations

Check out the educator's newsletter that is filled with the upcoming exhibitions, programs, and activities that will benefit any educator!

Museum Visit Guidelines for School Tours

 

Education Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts: Debbie Cross, Martha Visney, Anne Williams, Bonnie Beesley, Tracey Ferguson, and Angela Williams

The museum is fortunate to have several hundred volunteers assisting with various programs and also has the support and direct involvement of many area educators including the people shown here.

Museum Education Supporters

Pictured from back to front, left to right: Barbara Parker - Lake View High School Art Teacher, Suzanne Horner - Lake View High School Art Teacher, William Stinnett - Freshman Campus Art Teacher, Herminia Bye - Carver Art Teacher, Stacy Hicks - Lee Junior High Art Teacher, Jade Norris - Museum Educator, Jo Ann Tambasco - Lincoln Junior High Art Teacher, Howard Taylor - Museum Director, Donna Hughes - Lee Junior High Art Teacher, Joe Morgan - Central High School Art Teacher, Amiey Boyd - Lee Junior High Art Teacher, Val Hague - Central High School Art Teacher, Blaine Shelton - Central High School Art Teacher, Raquel Littlefield - Lincoln Junior High Art Teacher, Martha Visney - Museum Education Committee, Joy Noguess - Museum Art Teacher.

The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts operates one of the most extensive art education programs for its' size of any museum in the nation. It was primarily for this reason that we received the National Museum Service Award, which has been given to only 32 other museums in America and was presented at the White House by Laura Bush this past January 2003.

Although the museum does provide numerous programs for adults, we have placed heavy emphasis on children's programs. This is because our community is relatively remote and art and cultural opportunities for children are very limited.

We collaborate with more than a dozen organizations in our community and directly and extensively with the San Angelo Independent School District, the offices of Region IX and local school districts up to 100 miles away. With the SAISD and other public schools, we are keenly aware of their need for all education experiences to tie in directly with state mandates and testing standards.

The museum is in a period of intensive planning and exploring even broader education initiatives. We have a newsletter distributed through the SAISD called "The Brush" to inform the teachers of the service that we offer and current exhibits and other activities. We have recently purchased some land and very dilapidated structures adjacent to the museum and have already initiated a strategic planning process to develop that property in ways that will allow us to extend our educational offerings even further.

We frequently host large scale free public events for the family that include hands-on art activities for children. These include a twice annual Family Day day long program and celebrations and activities around certain major exhibition openings. Currently the museum is impacting over 85,000 people annually through visitation, on-site and outreach programs and although difficult to measure through a range of televised programming including a number of programs produced in cooperation with Angelo State University for their education access channel. The museum provides an amazing 4,000 hours of service annually to the community.

 


The New BRUSH is here!
For more information please contact:
Jade Norris, Museum Educator
(325)653-3333
educator@samfa.org