Guided Visits
- Please note all school visits require eight weeks notice to schedule.
- NOTE: Guided visits are no longer available for the 2013 school year because bookings are at capacity. Self-guided visits are also at capacity but groups may apply on a standby basis. Please apply here.
- Visits can be scheduled to begin as soon as the museum opens. Click here to view museum hours.
Program Options
Shaping Identity – Who are we?
Shaping Identity
Explore works of art from around the world spanning thousands of years to investigate how people of diverse cultures use art to define, reinforce, and communicate cultural, national, and personal identity.
Shaping Identity with African American Art
Explore works of art from around the world and see how African American artists from the 19th century to our own time have created art that reflects their own perspectives on African American society and what it means to be of African descent in America.
Shaping Identity with Arts of the Americas
Explore works of art from around the world and focus on North, Central, and South America, including pre-Colombian, and Native American art from the colonial period through our own time.
Shaping Identity with Art of the Spanish Speaking World
Explore works from around the world and further examine art from diverse Spanish speaking cultures in Europe, Central, and South America, from ancient to the present.
Thinking Through Art – What’s happening in this work of art?
Engage in facilitated discussions about carefully chosen works of art that encourage observation, improve critical thinking and communication skills, and promote cooperative learning using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a research-based teaching method. Thinking Through Art tours are available beginning at 10:30am Tuesday through Friday.
The Visual Thinking Strategy
- Uses art to develop critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills
- Specially-trained volunteers will facilitate learner-centered discussions of visual art
- Engages learners in a rigorous process of examination and meaning-making through visual art
- Measurably increases observation skills, evidential reasoning, and speculative abilities
- Engenders the willingness and ability to find multiple solutions to complex problems
- Uses facilitated discussion to enable students to practice respectful, democratic, collaborative problem solving skills that over time transfer to other classroom interactions, and beyond
- Uses eager, thoughtful participation to nurture verbal language skills, and writing assignments to assist transfer from oral to written ability
- Produces growth in all students, from challenged and non-English language learners to high achievers
- Underscore connections to art and strengthens the role of museums as a valuable resource in students' lives
- To stay with the intent of VTS (Thinking Through Art) information about the art will not be shared - students who inquire, will be guided through a process of self-discovery, empowering the learner with valuable research skills
NOTE: This tour does not provide detailed information about individual works of art. For more information please visit http://vtshome.org.
Set up a DIA Visit
Please complete the form below to request a guided visit. You will generally receive a tour confirmation within 10 business days of receipt of your application. If you have questions or would like assistance with your application, please call 313.833.7981. Please let us know the best time to reach you; due to very high call volume, please be patient for a call back.
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Family Sundays
Puppet Performance: PuppetART Detroit's production of Crane Maiden
Sunday, May 26, 2013
2:00 pm
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