11:00
  • Literature
Wonderings and Wanderings
Novelist Yaa Gyasi’s family moved often, a boon for a curious young girl.
Season 9, Episode 1
Wonderings and Wanderings
11:34
  • Dance
Classically Contemporary
Akram Khan has combined dance traditions to create a new form of storytelling.
Season 9, Episode 8
Classically Contemporary
03:09
  • Music
  • Stage & Screen
Anaïs Mitchell Performs “Flowers”
Anaïs Mitchell performs the song "Flowers" from her Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown.
Season 9
Anaïs Mitchell Performs “Flowers”
16:15
  • Literature
  • Art & Design
The Wit and Wisdom of Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau has spent 50 years creating the Doonesbury comic strip and is far from done.
Season 8, Episode 1
The Wit and Wisdom of Garry Trudeau
10:56
  • Architecture
Balkrishna Doshi: Building Compassion
Balkrishna Doshi learned a lot about his craft as a bedridden 10-year-old.
Season 4, Episode 11
Balkrishna Doshi: Building Compassion
04:24
  • Music
Andrew Bird Performs “Roma Fade”
Bird performs "Roma Fade" off his 2016 album, Are You Serious, at the Stotesbury Mansion.
Season 5
Andrew Bird Performs “Roma Fade”

Our educator guides, formulated for both in-person and online learning, bring the arts into STEM, ELA, and social studies classrooms.

  • Art
  • ELA
Art as Service
In this lesson, students explore the arts as a tool for sharing stories, information, and historical realities in ways that can build community and create awareness about and have an impact on social issues. They explore areas where art might drive change to envision artistic strategies that would make that change happen.
Lesson Plan
Art as Service
  • Art
  • Civics
  • ELA
Taking a Stand Through Art
In this lesson, students explore how art can be a tool for addressing and taking action on social justice issues. They examine the various ways artists across genres create messages to encourage awareness and engagement that affect social change. Students consider issues of importance in their community or the world at large to ideate an arts-based solution.
Lesson Plan
Taking a Stand Through Art
  • ELA
  • Science
Responding to the Built Environment: An Emotional Interaction
In this lesson, students examine the relationship between architectural design and the human experience to recognize how it influences the shape of the built environment. Learners explore this intersection by assessing an architectural structure in their immediate community to determine whether a new design or a redesign would make it more human centered as well as imaginative, innovative, and distinctive.
Lesson Plan
Responding to the Built Environment: An Emotional Interaction