Educator Programs & Resources
Educator Programs
Professional Development Programs
The Noguchi Museum is pleased to offer Professional Development Programs for educators.To book a program specifically designed for your group, please email education@noguchi.com or call 718.204.7088 extension 203.
To find out more about pricing and program types please click here.
Resources
Biographies of Isamu Noguchi
Click here to download a brief biography on Isamu Noguchi appropriate for grades
pre-K to 5.
Click here to download a brief biography on Isamu Noguchi appropriate for grades 5 and above.
Noguchi Guides for Educators
These resources are intended for use in the classroom, before or after a visit to The Noguchi Museum or independently. They are grouped below by grade level.
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Grades Pre-K - 2
Art and Me
This guide helps students learn to look closely at a work of art as a way of understanding it better.
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Nature and Art
Students will consider how Noguchi incorporated nature into his art, and create their own nature-related art.
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The Senses
Students will use sight, sound, smell, and touch to explore art.
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Grades Pre-K - 5
Places in Art
This guide explores the relationship between art and the places we live, travel, imagine, and care about.
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Mining Art: Basalt, Granite, Marble
Students will look at the sculptures of Isamu Noguchi through the lens of geology. They will learn about the different natural properties of the materials Noguchi worked with while exploring the differences between nature's marks and the artist's marks on stone.
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Grades 3 - 12
What is Sculpture?
Noguchi wrote, “I am ever mindful of the notion that to discover or rediscover the true meaning of sculpture, the experience of sculpture has to be expanded.” This guide asks students to consider and create examples of furniture, spaces, and other non-traditional sculpture.
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Exploring the World
Noguchi traveled around the world, learning from art and traditions from Japan, India, and Italy, among other places. He also lived in New York City for much of his life, and learned from and made art in response to New York. This guide connects Noguchi's art to communities around the world.
Literature and Art: Writing in the Museum
For centuries, artists have inspired writers, and writers have inspired artists. This guide provides lessons with writing in response to a work of art and art-making in response to works of literature.
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Grades 5 - 12
Identity and Art
Noguchi’s work can be read as a lifelong quest to understand who he was and what he had to say. This guide uses Noguchi’s work as an example to inspire students to think about and create art about their own identities.
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Abstraction and Meaning
Many of Noguchi’s abstract pieces have deep symbolic resonances. This guide asks students to consider how abstraction can convey meaning in art.
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