PVA provides free curriculum and educational materials for select exhibits to deepen the experience and engagement of youth, encourage art related careers, and consider how to bring more art into our daily lives.
Alma Sagrada – Educational Materials
Alma Sagrada: Cultivando Ritmos Naturales
In conjuction with the exhibit, Alma Sagrada: Cultivando Ritmos Naturales, (Sacred Soul: Cultivating Natural Rhythms), The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band shares their Protect Juristac Curriculum, an entirely customizable set of lesson plans that have been developed to support teachers in educating students of all ages. The curriculum below is offered free of charge and is geared towards students in middle school and higher grades.
Look for Stan Rushworth‘s collage in the virtual tour, and listen to his description below:
Campesinos: Workers of the Land 2020 – Educational Materials
Campesinos: Workers of the Land
This exhibit was conceived to honor the dignity of our campesinos/agricultural workers and farmers. We asked artists to create and bring us work that represented what they see, feel, and believe as they pass by our fields everyday. We asked for artwork that reflected the issues of dignity, labor, workers’ rights, immigration, and the duality of every day living for migrant workers. We received incredibly personal, visual and audio stories that celebrate the lives and contributions of our families and community of agricultural workers.
- Curriculum Workers of the land English
Curriculum Workers of the Land Spanish - Campesinos Pre-Tour Guide English
Campesinos Pre-Tour Guide Spanish - Pajaro Valley Agricultural Timeline English
Pajaro Valley Agricultural Timeline Spanish - Yaya Timeline of Agricultural Labor USA
Yaya Immigration Terms - Campesinos Virtual Poetry Reading
- Campesinos – Virtual Tour
- Regeneración: Women, Girls & Climate Justice – Climate of Hope Forum
Artwork: Ricardo Valencia © 2019 Arleene Correa Valencia
Hablamos Juntos/Together We Speak 2018 – Educational Materials
Hablamos juntos / Juntos hablamos
Un Diálogo Visual / A Visual Dialog
In 2018 along with Museo Eduardo Carrillo y el Programa de Jóvenes Escritores, PVA presented the exhibit Hablamos Juntos/Together We Speak: Un Diálogo Visual/a Visual Dialog curated by Juan R. Fuentes and Michelle P. Mouton. The exhibit was based on the our 2015 Hablamos Juntos Poster Series and explored visual dialogs created by prominent California Latinx artists. Experience how our artists give voice to and navigate: daily life, current events, social, political and cultural issues, community, ethnicity, as well as personal narratives, myths, and history.
The curriculum created as a result of this exhibit was designed to empower our Latine/x community through personal dialogue with notable Latine/x artists. The powerful artwork is used as a basis for the curriculum combined with in depth materials presented by each artist. The project is designed to spark youth’s interest in and about art, pursuing a career as an artist, or considering how to bring art more consistently into their daily lives providing a deepened experience for youth and adults alike.
- Guía de discusión previa a la gira
- Timeline: Latinos in America
- Migration, Immigrations, Incorporation- 1492-1990
- Cronología: Latinos en América 1990-2018
- Hablamos Juntos Curriculum
- Virtual Tour – Hablamos Juntos
- More photos on PVA’s Facebook
- 2015 Hablamos Juntos Posters
Artwork: Documented © 2015 Juan R. Fuentes
El Programa de Jóvenes Escritores, trabaja con los estudiantes para responder verbalmente y por escrito a la obra de arte. Esto ha resultado en la publicación de una serie de libros que combina las imágenes con la reacción escrita de los estudiantes. En 2016, las imágenes de este proyecto se colocaron en toda la comunidad de Watsonville como puntos focales de una caminata por las calles. Varios de los artistas estuvieron presentes para discutir su trabajo y responder preguntas al público general. Programa de Jóvenes Escritores has worked with students to respond verbally and in writing to the artwork. This resulted in the publication of a series of Hablamos Juntos books that combines the images with written reaction from students. In 2016, the images from this project were also placed throughout the Watsonville community as the focal points for an Art Walk through the streets of Watsonville where several of the artists were present to discuss their work and answer questions from the general public.