J. Marshall Adams, Division Director
Museum of Contempoary Art, Jacksonville
Museums are an exciting and dynamic place to learn about art. Teaching from
textbooks,
slides, poster prints, PowerPoint or the World Wide Web are often the only ways
classroom educators put students in contact with works of art. Many of us remember the
first time we studied the Mona Lisa, or some other great masterwork, in a darkened
university lecture hall and were later surprised when seeing the real thing. It seemed so
different before. The original might be smaller or larger but somehow more powerful.
Your eye registers a wealth of details unavailable from the facsimiles you knew before,
subtle clues that reveal the hand of the artist at work, inspiring whole new insights into
history, process, aesthetics and criticism.
Museums provide the unique experience to view, study, and learn from authentic works
of art. Museums protect our cultural treasures, yet offer them for discovery and
discussion, where we may glimpse something of ourselves. Florida’s art museum
educators invite you to explore ways of integrating the museum as a resource in your
teaching. The following institutions have FAEA museum educators as staff – they are
your fellow art educators and are happy to assist you and your students in sharing what
museums have to offer.
Boca Raton Museum of Art
www.bocamuseum.org
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College (Winter Park)
www.rollins.edu/cfam/
The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens (Jacksonville)
www.cummer.org
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida (Gainesville)
www.harn.ufl.edu
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
www.MOCAjacksonville.org
Orlando Museum of Art
www.omart.org
Polk Museum of Art (Lakeland)
www.polkmuseumofart.org
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota)
www.ringling.org
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