Denver Art Museum Blogs

Community Spotlight: Denver Public Schools Citywide Art Event

The Denver Public Schools Citywide Art Event Show displays 235 artworks by student artists from 35 schools across the district.

Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) at the DAM 

The Denver Art Museum will host the 11th Annual Teaching for Artistic Behavior Conference on January 15-16, 2022.

Denver’s Very Own Los Fridistas 

Denver Public Schools students and teachers created Surrealist self-portraits and poems inspired by Frida Kahlo.

2021 Colorado Scholastic Arts Awards

Congratulations to these creative students in grades 7–12 and to their teachers and families!

Calling All Middle-School Teachers and Families

The Denver Art Museum needs your help!

Sharing our sincere appreciation for teachers across Colorado  and beyond

The closure of schools this spring has created an  unprecedented  challenge for teachers  to overcome.  Teachers were faced with daunting questions:  How do we teach from afar? How do we connect with our students when we cannot connect? How do we ensure students know we care?  We have seen teachers not only  rise to the challenge, but truly innovate during this time of need.

Apply for Art Lives Here/El arte vive aquí

Is your school actively engaged in promoting the arts? Do you work for a community center focused on exposing youth and families to new creative experiences and opportunities? Apply here to collaborate with the Denver Art Museum to bring the Art Lives Here/El arte vive aquí program to your site. Art Lives Here/El arte vive aquí is a FREE program created with the Denver Art Museum and your school or organization’s community. A collection of unique museum objects would live at your site for about a month.

Explore DAM Field Trip Opportunities

Ah, the start of a new school year—freshly sharpened pencils, classrooms organized, and the whole year ahead of you. Wondering what will be at the Denver Art Museum to connect to your classroom? Wondering which works of art you can see in person and which artists you might want to study? Look no further than your school mailbox. school-mailer-envelope.jpg The teacher mailer has arrived! This envelope from the DAM is jam packed with information about field trips offered in the 2018–2019 school year.

5 Fun Things for Teachers to Do at the DAM

1. Explore World-Class Exhibitions—Only at the Denver Art Museum! Degas: A Passion for Perfection investigates the creative experimentation throughout Degas’ career to capture contemporary life of late-nineteenth-century Paris, a transformation from his earlier focus on historical subjects. The Denver Art Museum is the only American venue for this exhibition. Degas: A Passion for Perfection is included in free general admission for school groups and available for school tour groups through March 16, and April 2–May 18, 2018.