Educator Resources

We are pleased to offer a variety of materials to enhance your students’ learning in the classroom.

Film Library

Films are available for a loan period of five days. Call 231-720-2577 for more info or to request a film. The Muskegon Museum of Art does not make claims about age appropriateness of film material. Please preview videos before sharing with students.

Films Available:

  • 20th Century American Art
  • African American Art: Past and Present
  • Against the Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
  • The American Indians: Sacred Ground
  • American Visions: The Republic of Virtue
  • American Visions: The Promised Land
  • American Visions: The Wilderness and the West
  • American Visions: The Gilded Age
  • American Visions: A Wave from the Atlantic
  • American Visions: Streamlines and Breadlines
  • American Visions: The Empire of Signs
  • American Visions: The Age of Anxiety
  • Apache: Geronimo on the Warpath
  • Art Glass: Looking at the Basics
  • Art of Navajo Weaving and The Durango Collection of Southwest Textiles
  • At the Met: Curator’s Choice
  • At the Met: Flowers and Gardens
  • Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Indian Art and Its Evolution
  • The Box of Daylight: A Tlingit Myth of Creation
  • Burchfield’s Vision
  • Cassatt: Portrait of an Artist
  • Chagall: Portrait of an Artist
  • Chicago’s Riverfront: Where the Present Meets The Past
  • Chihuly: Glass Master
  • Contemporary Series: Contemporary Glass
  • Cranbrook: Evolution of a Dream
  • The Creative Adventures of Isamu Noguchi
  • Daimyo
  • Dale Chihuly: Installations 1964 – 1992
  • David Hockney: Pleasures of the Eye
  • Degas: Portrait of an Artist
  • Don’t Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Met
  • Dorthea Lange: A Visual Life
  • Drawing From the Past: Creation of Disney
  • Educational Awareness Presentation: Sharing The Dream
  • The Eighteenth Century Woman
  • Elements of Design: Single Concepts in Art
  • Elizabeth Catlett: Sculpting the Truth
  • Elroy’s Toys
  • Ethnic Notions: Black People in White Minds
  • The Oren Lyons: Faith keeper
  • Feast of the Gods
  • The Frescos of Diego Rivera
  • Henry Ossawa Tanner
  • History of Comics, The
  • I Will Fight No More Forever
  • Impressionists: The Other French Revolution
  • In Open Air: A Portrait of American Impressionists
  • In the Land of War Canoes
  • Into the Circle: An Introduction to Native American Powwows
  • Introduction to Venetian Techniques
  • Islands (Christo)
  • Jacob Lawrence: American Artist
  • Jacob Lawrence: An Intimate Portrait
  • Jacob Lawrence: The Glory of Expression
  • John Glick: A Potter at Work
  • The Journey of the Chandler-Pohrt Collection
  • Kahlo: Portrait of an Artist
  • Kandinsky: Portrait of an Artist
  • La Belle Époque 1890 – 1914
  • Les Silences de Manet
  • Life and Art of William H. Johnson (1901-1970)
  • Louvre 200: At the Louvre with the Masters
  • Louvre 200: Museum in Time
  • Louvre 200: Selected Places
  • Maria! Indian Pottery of San Ildefonso
  • Matisse in Nice
  • Michelangelo: Artist and Man
  • Ming Garden
  • Mountain in the Mind
  • The Mystery of Henry Moore
  • New Ways of Seeing: Picasso, Braque, and the Cubist Revolution
  • Noguchi: Portrait of an Artist
  • O’Keeffe: Portrait of an Artist
  • Picasso: Portrait of an Artist
  • The Power of Myth: The First Story Tellers
  • The Power of Myth: The Hero’s Adventure
  • The Power of Myth: Love and the Goddess
  • The Power of Myth: Masks of Eternity
  • The Power of Myth: The Message of the Myth
  • The Power of Myth: Sacrifice and Bliss
  • Principles of Design: Single Concepts in Art
  • Printmaking Processes
  • Randolph Caldecott: The Man Behind the Medal
  • Rediscovering America: Indians Among Us
  • Reflections: The Story of the Exhibition
  • Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel
  • Robert Rauschenberg: Inventive Genius
  • Separate Visions: Four Southwest Indian Artists
  • Small Worlds: The Work of Esther Luttikhuizen
  • The Spirit of the Mask
  • Strega Nonna
  • Surviving Picasso
  • The Clown of God
  • A Treasury of California Baskets
  • Urban Bonsai: Contemporary Japanese Prints
  • Views of a Vanishing Frontier
  • Vincent: Portrait of an Artist
  • W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
  • Willem de Kooning
  • Wilton Art Appreciation: Rhythms & Patterns, Change & Transformation
  • Wilton Art Appreciation: The World Our Minds Invent; Maps, Paths, & Grids
  • Wilton Art Appreciation: What Does it Mean to Be Me; Packaging; From Soup to You
  • Wilton Art Appreciation: 20th Century Trends I & II
  • Wilton Art Appreciation – Series 100: Artists at Work; Art Around Us
  • Wilton Art Appreciation – Series 100: Color; Elements of Design
  • Wilton Art Appreciation – Series 100: Many Ways Of Seeing; Art Adventure
  • Wilton Art Appreciation – Series 200: People Things; Animals
  • Wilton Art Appreciation – Series 200: Portraits & Still-Lifes
  • Winslow Homer: The Nature of the Artist
  • World of Joseph Campbell: Transformations of Myth Through Time
  • Wyeth: The Real World of Andrew Wyeth
  • Videos – National Gallery of Art at the MMA
  • Adventures in Art
  • American Light: The Luminist Movement
  • An American Impressionist: William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock
  • An American Vision
  • Anthony VanDyck
  • Art Nouveau: 1890-1914
  • Art + Science = Conservation
  • Awareness Series: American Art
  • Awareness Series: Modern Masters
  • Awareness Series: Old Masters
  • David Smith
  • Eye of Thomas Jefferson, The
  • Important Information Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting
  • Introduction to Sculpture
  • James McNeill Whistler: His Etchings
  • James McNeill Whistler: The Lyrics Of Art
  • Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church
  • Leonardo: To Know How To See
  • Masters of Illusion
  • Mobile, By Alexander Calder
  • Of Time, Tombs, and Treasure
  • Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico
  • Picasso and The Circus
  • Picasso: Early Years, The
  • Picasso: The Saltimbanques
  • Quiet Collector, The
  • Roy Lichtenstein: Art of the Graphic Image
  • Seeing Color: Object, Light Observer

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