Educators

Explore Rockwell's images of American life through themes of family, innocence and heroism. Visitors will see how Rockwell's images influenced the way Americans thought about their country from the 1920s through the Civil Rights movement.

Visiting

Admission to the exhibition is $8 for students (ages 6 - 17) and $8 for one adult chaperone for every 10 students. This price includes admission to the permanent collection. Limited admission and transportation subsidies are available. For reservations, call Group Sales at 313 833 1292.

Guide for Educators

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
Click here to download the entire Student and Teacher Programs and Resources Brochure (32 pages, 11 MB).

You can also download individual selections from the guide via the links below:

Programs for Teachers (1 page)
Map of Exhibition with Audio Stops (1 page)
Exhibition Overview and Walk Through (16 pages)
Time Line of American Life 1915 - 1964 (Rockwell's career) (3 pages)
Discussion Questions and Classroom Activities Connecting the exhibition to Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks for grades 3 - 12
(4 pages)

Arts Education
Career and Employability
English Language Arts
Social Studies

Resources: Books, Films and Web sites (view content on line) (4 pages)
DIA Evening Post Activity: Who's Your Family? (print on line template) (1 page)

Learning before and after your visit

What does family mean to you? Norman Rockwell depicted many families for the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. Create a magazine cover based on your ideas of family. (See covers made in our Drop In workshops Friday Nights and Saturdays, which will hang in our community art gallery for the length of the exhibition.)

Click here to print The DIA Evening Post: Who's Your Family?

Exhibition Audio Tours
The exhibition audio tour is free with admission and features both an adult version (suitable for high school students) and youth version (for grades 5-8).

Learning in the Museum: Want to Keep it Going?
Museum-trained volunteers in the last gallery of the exhibition will direct you to works of art in the DIA galleries that relate to themes in the Rockwell exhibition. They'll also tell you about books, Web sites and movies for use in the classroom.

Teacher Workshops and Evenings for Educators
To register for workshops, call 313 833 4249 or e-mail parks@dia.org. Teacher workshops are open to K-12 educators of all subjects and home school educators. Because of the special focus on instructional issues, teacher workshops are not open to the general public.

Evening for Educators
Friday, March 20; 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Focus on Special Exhibitions: American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell and Service Learning

See how Norman Rockwell's images inspired Americans from WWII to the 1960s Civil Rights movement
Discuss how to meet the new High School Service Learning requirement with David Hales, Wayne RESA Social Studies consultant
Learn how to prepare students for civic life outside of school with Kari Pardoe from Learning to Give
Supports Social Studies and Visual Arts Standards
Recommended for middle and high school teachers
Includes admission to the exhibition, an $18 value

Member fee: $15; nonmember fee: $20
Pre-service teacher fee: $10
Includes admission to the DIA Friday Night Live! and special programs for all ages, 6-10 p.m. All Evenings for Educator workshops begin in the Lecture Hall.

Saturday Workshop
Saturday, March 28; 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Focus on Special Exhibitions: American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell and Primary Resources

Long before the Core Democratic Values curriculum, Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms posters inspired Americans during World War II
Includes private tour of the exhibition
David Hales, Wayne RESA Social Studies consultant, shows how Rockwell's images are primary and secondary resources that support your teaching
Sample the American Art tour and classroom talk with Jennifer Williams, DIA educator
Supports Social Studies and Visual Arts Standards
Recommended for upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers
Includes exhibition admission, an $18 value

Member fee: $40; nonmember fee: $50
Pre-service teacher fee: $25
SB-CEU credit is available.
Use Farnsworth entrance