AMPLIFY
A new joint program by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Kemper Art Museum, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, and the Saint Louis Art Museum
How do artists use their voices to tell important stories of social change? How can we amplify the issues we care about and create change? AMPLIFY, a joint program by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Kemper Art Museum, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, invites middle and high school students to explore different aspects of art and social justice through interactive tours and art-making. Explore tour offerings below!
Schools are welcome to register for one visit to a single institution or multiple visits across institutions. Please fill out a registration form for each program of interest. Transportation assistance is available.
Missouri Visual Arts Standards: VA:Cr2C, VA:Re7A, VA:Re7B, VA:Cn10A
Missouri Social Studies Standards: 9-12.GV.1.PC.A
AMPLIFY: Stories of the Land
Location: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Students will learn about artworks that explore our complex relationship to the land from histories of settler colonialism and Native resistance to contemporary visions of the land amid globalization and climate change. Students will collaborate on a landscape that expresses their aspirations for human-land relationships and what stories the land will tell in the future.
AMPLIFY at Partner Institutions
Location: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Whose stories are told and whose remain hidden? In this tour, students will engage with the artwork of three artists whose practices seek to unearth stories that aren’t always found in history books. Through Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s videos of Puerto Rico, Candice Lin’s installation displaying Chinese presence in Cuba, and Jamal Cyrus’ sculptural exploration of African diaspora in the United States, students will consider how amplifying these voices changes mainstream narratives about the past and present.
Recommended for grades 8 - 12
Location: Saint Louis Art Museum
Students will explore artworks and stories that celebrate ways artists (or their subjects) have overcome obstacles, repurposed materials or ideas, or used their unique perspectives and creativity to advocate for inclusive communities and values. Following the tour, students will engage in art-making to more deeply examine themes from the tour in relation to their own lived experiences. Learn more.
Image Credit
Photo by teen apprentice Nyla Robinson of St. Louis ArtWorks.