Educational Resources for Past Exhibitions

Crashing into the 60s: Film Posters from the Collection

• Poster Analysis Worksheet 
• Storytime at GEM: "Young Charlotte Filmmaker" by Frank Viva, read by Caroline Yeager, Associate Curator, Administration, Moving Image Department, George Eastman Museum 

Selections From The Collection

• I Spy
• Storytime at GEM: "Making a Great Exhibition" by Doro Globus and Rose Blake, read by Sarah Rivera, former executive assistant to the director, George Eastman Museum 
• Storytime at GEM: "Gordon Parks How the Photographer Captured Black and White America" by Carole Boston Weatherford, read by Jamie Allen, ​Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley curator, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum 
• MST Art Education Graduate Student Read Aloud (RIT) "Imogen: The Mother of Modernism and Three Boys," by Amy Novesky, read by Amanda Gigilia 
• MST Art Education Graduate Student Read Aloud (RIT) "Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression," by Carole Boston Weatherford, read by Ariana Aponte

Exploring Animation: Rochester International Academy Phenakistoscope Discovery Project 

• Inclusive Lesson Plan: Animation Wheels
• Animation Disc Instructions
• Phenakisticope Template 
• How to Create a Phenakistoscope - Video 

Gregory Halpern: 19 winters / 7 springs 

• Poetry in the Project Gallery 

Gillian Laub: Southern Rites 

• Rights, Rites, Write: Lesson Plan
• Hear from the Artist: Gillian Laub 
• Gillian Laub: Southern Rites Pre-Visit Experience 
• Thinking and Learning about Civil Rights & DEAI with Picture Books 
• Educational Resources
  • Southern Rites: The Heartbreaking Story of Justin Patterson's Death 
  • New York Times Critiquing a Photograph
  • Learning for Justice/Social Justice Learning Standards
  • View Prom Night in Mississippi on YouTube and Additional Resources 
  • Prom Night in Mississippi: Curriculum (Learning for Justice, formerly Teaching Tolerance) 
  • GEM Consider Card: Exploring Perspective Taking Through Photography 

Resistance and Rescue: Denmark and the Holocaust 

• Storytime at GEM: "The Whispering Town" by Jennifer Elvgren, read by Suzanne Kolodziej, Museum Educator, George Eastman Museum 
• Exploring Perspective Taking and Empathy: “The Whispering Town”
• Educational Resources 
  • Voices in the Void - Holocaust Documentary Short Film (2021)
  • Voices in the Void - Eastman Museum: Film Lesson Plan
  • Humanity in Action, Interactive lessons to Voices in the Void  
  • Humanity in Action, The Danish Exception
  • United Nations: Holocaust Museums and Memorials
  • First Book, Historically Accurate Holocaust Books: High School Level 

Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles 

• Hear from the Artist: Adam Ekberg 
• Pre-Visit Experience: Artist Video Introduction
• Writing a Windspark Poem 

Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be

• Pre-Visit Experience: "How Artist Marcia Resnick, Long Underknown, Pushed Photography to Its Conceptual Boundaries" Reading and Questions

Selections from the Collection: War and Conflict 

• Pre-Visit Experience: I am Not 'Napalm Girl' Anymore Reading and Questions 
• The KWL Strategy: Researching Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
• UNICEF: Voices of Youth/Violence and Conflict/Poems for Peace
• In Gallery Activity: Explore Protest Poetry
• Protest Poetry Lesson - Brian Turner
• Photographic Process Glossary
• Photography and Poetry Extra Resources

Perspectives: Recents Gifts of Contemporary Art 

• Constructing a Lune Poem to Photographs 

Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone

• Constructing A Lune Poem to Photographs 
• Poetry in the Main Galleries 
• Knew Wonder Wish Writing Lesson  
• Present and Absent Writing Lesson
• Past and Future Writing Lesson
• FloodZone Dream Lesson 
• Water Quality Related Key Terms and Concepts 
• Stormwater Coalition of Monroe County Stormwater School Curriculum (SUNY-Brockport)

Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I'll Run On

Artist Joshua Rashaad McFadden uses photography to engage some of the most challenging subject matter of our time. Working across genres—social documentary, reportage, portraiture, book arts, and fine arts—he critically examines race, masculinity, sexuality, and gender in the United States. His work reveals the destructive impact of these constructs on Black Americans. 

• Virtual tour
• Spark a Conversation card
• Hear from the Artist: Joshua Rashaad McFadden
• Exhibition Inspired Picture Books
• Using a Viewfinder Activity
• Pre-Visit Experience: Teaching Civil Rights Reading and Questions
• Pre-Visit Experience: New York Times Reading and Questions

James Tylor: From an Untouched Landscape

In his artistic practice, James Tylor highlights under-told and often unseen histories of Aboriginal peoples. Tylor takes an expansive approach to landscape, incorporating his Kaurna knowledge into its presentation, and to the photographic medium, through use of technologies old and new. In Tylor’s hands, photography, once used to survey Aboriginal lands and peoples, becomes a way to indigenize landscapes.

• Virtual tour
• Spark a Conversation card
• Hear from the Artist: James Tylor
• Audio tour