Educator packets are pre-visit materials designed to prepare students for their experience at the Frist Art Museum. Available for selected exhibitions, the packets contain color reproductions and a guide with exhibition information, curriculum connections, related activities, and resources. These materials are automatically distributed to educators who schedule docent-guided or self-guided tours.
Current Exhibitions
Southern/Modern
Southern/Modern image reproductions
Past Exhibitions
Packets from past exhibitions are available to educators. Visit the exhibition’s page (linked where available) to access digital educator guides; contact learning@FristArtMuseum.org to request other materials.
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage
Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric
Weaving Splendor: Treasures of Asian Textiles from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful
American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918–1939
American Art Deco image reproductions
Creating the American West in Art
Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World
J.M.W. Turner: Quest for the Sublime
J.M.W Turner: Quest for the Sublime image reproductions
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing
Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art
A Sporting Vision: The Paul Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art
Paris 1900: City of Entertainment
Rome: City and Empire
Rome: City and Empire image reproductions
Secrets of Buddhist Art: Tibet, Japan, and Korea
Samurai: The Way of the Warrior
Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise
Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting
Ink, Silk, and Gold: Islamic Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th-Century American Art
Kandinsky: A Retrospective
Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan
30 Americans
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection
To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957
Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce
Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times and Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection
American Anthem
Illusions of Innocence and Golden Children
Whistler, Sargent, and Steer (Portraits and Personalities)
Reflections in Black
Art of Tennessee
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
