School Programs
Come to the Barnes, or we’ll come to you. Our programs will nourish your students’ imaginations and serve your curricular goals.
Virtual Learning
Art education for the 21st-century classroom.
Introducing interactive videos from the Barnes. Recorded in our galleries using our state-of-the-art learning platform, each video connects a topic and a curriculum content area to the Barnes collection. Students learn online with engaging Barnes educators using our immersive platform that brings you closer to the artwork than ever before.
These videos are free to access and can be used to support in-class lessons or at-home learning. Please explore the topics below, along with the corresponding worksheets—and check back often as this library of videos will continue to grow!
How It Works
Click “Continue” below to watch a brief introduction to our interactive videos.
Content Area: Art Elements
Learn how artists use various colors, lines, and brushstrokes in their works.
Lines lesson for students in grades pre-K–2
Content Area: Literacy-Building
Have you ever wondered what an illustrator does? Learn more and practice letter writing.
Content Area: Art & Art Making
Learn about the materials, pigments, and colors that artists use to create paintings.
Pigments & Process Lesson for students in grades 5–8
Worksheet 1 for students in grades 5–8
Worksheet 2 for students in grades 5–8
Content Area: Art & Art Making
Learn about impressionism and create your own impressionist-style artwork.
Impressionism lesson for students in grades 2–6
Worksheet for students in grades 2–6
Content Area: STEM
Learn about artist Henri Rousseau and use math to study how artists use proportions in their work.
Henri Rousseau and proportions lesson for students in grades 5–8
Content Area: STEAM
Use science and social studies in an investigation to authenticate Egyptian artworks.
Content Area: Artist Spotlight
Explore themes of resilience, family, and gratitude in Horace Pippin’s work.
Content Area: Spanish
Practice your conversational Spanish by looking closely at artworks in the Barnes collection.
Content Area: French
Practice your conversational French by looking closely at artworks in the Barnes collection.
Content Area: Teacher Training
Teachers, learn how to use artworks to support learning in your classroom for other curriculum areas.
These videos can be used as supplemental learning tools before or after your field trip to the Barnes, or to make our collection and our teaching philosophies accessible to students who are not able to visit in person. Please contact us with any questions.