Resources for Families

Beaches Rotaract Read-Alouds
Exploring with Kids
Storybook: The Book of Lost Magic
Artmaking at Home
Art Connections
Resources & Adaptive Artmaking

Beaches Rotaract Read-Alouds

READ USA partnered with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens and the Rotaract Club of Jacksonville’s Beaches to create a unique new series of Read Alouds. The 10-video series provides children with a variety of stories that reflect different cultures and ethnicities while exposing them to unique artistic and cultural resources available at the Cummer Museum. Ten members of the Beaches Rotaract conducted the Read Alouds inside the Cummer Museum and in the gardens and discuss works of art that inspired them and are related to each of the stories the members read.

Exploring with Kids

The Museum’s “Exploring with Kids” guides are designed to help children and families slow down, enjoy and interact with art in meaningful ways. These guides are intended for families not just to use while visiting the Museum, but also to take home with them.

A special thank you goes to the Chartrand Family Fund who provided the funding for this informative and fun guide!

Storybook: The Book of Lost Magic

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens partnered with Jacksonville Arts & Music School during the 2021-2022 school year. JAMS’ visual art students of House Savage wrote, illustrated, and designed a StoryWalk set in the Museum Gardens. A StoryWalk is a fun, educational activity that places a story along a popular walking route in your community.

The Book of Lost Magic was written and illustrated by the students of House Savage, the visual arts department of Jacksonville Arts & Music School (JAMS). Please support the students and the Cummer Museum by purchasing a copy of The Book of Lost Magic in the Cummer Shop today!

This epic tale follows Mira, Kai, Kam, and Bash, four teenagers from different worlds who find themselves on a quest to locate a magical book. This interactive experience leads visitors through the Museum’s gardens using an educational visual guide that features bold student designed imagery.

Throughout the year, The Book of Lost Magic is periodically on view as a walking route in the Cummer Gardens.

Artmaking at Home

“Art Making at Home” provides ideas and instructions for creating Museum inspired art projects from home. Choose one of the projects in the guide and get the whole family involved! Helpful hint – visit our YouTube Channel for an at-home tutorial, as well as virtually explore parts of the Museum.

We invite you to #ColorTheCummerMuseum collection by downloading, coloring, and reimagining works of art found in the Museum. Share them with us on social media using the hashtag above and you could see your designs featured on the Cummer Museum’s page.

The new Cummer Museum Resource Guide is intended to be a starting point to online engagement. Looking for projects to create, livestream concerts to listen to, or curriculum based teaching tools? You’ll find great suggestions here!

Art Connections

Art Connections, the Museum’s nationally-recognized interactive learning gallery, enhances the creative and cultural learning of visitors of all ages. Following a refresh in the spring of 2021, Art Connections has reopened to provide opportunities for close-looking and artful thinking – skills and practices that visitors can take with them throughout the galleries and gardens and use to make deeper, more meaningful connections to the artworks.

Support for Art Connections generously provided by J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver.

Support for the Music Room in Art Connections provided by the DuBow Family Foundation.

Resource Guide

The Museum’s Resource Guide is intended to be a starting point to online engagement. Looking for projects to create, livestream concerts to listen to, or curriculum based teaching tools? You’ll find great suggestions here!

Resources for Families

Beaches Rotaract Read-Alouds

Exploring with Kids

Storybook: The Book of Lost Magic

Artmaking at Home

Art Connections

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