Current Exhibitions
Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper
January 28 - August 27, 2023 / Learn more
Teaching Resource: Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper, 2023
Mark di Suvero's drawings and sculptures offer a glimpse into the artist's groundbreaking career and present an opoprtunity for students to think about how to approach art in two and three dimensions.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Family Guide / Guía familiar: Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper, 2023 (En ingles y español)
See how artist Mark di Suvero brings a sense of movement to his drawings and sculptures. / Ve cómo el artista Mark di Suvero pone una sensación de movimiento en sus dibujos y esculturas.
Recommended for preschool- and elementary-aged learners.
Nasher Mobile Guide Online: Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper
Mark di Suvero: Steel Like Paper focuses on the artist’s studio practice over the course of his more than six-decade career, surveying intimately and modestly scaled sculptures along with his energetic and rarely seen drawings and paintings, as well as some of the artist’s first forays into making more sizable constructions.
Recommended for secondary and adult learners.
Videos
Build Your Own Tour: Eviva Amore by Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero activates For W.B. Yeats
2023 Nasher Prize Laureate Senga Nengudi
February 18 - April 30, 2023 / Learn more
Teaching Resource: Senga Nengudi, 2023
Artist Senga Nengudi explores themes of identity, the body, and collaboration in her artwork. Learn how over her decades-long career she has merged sculpture with dance and performance.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Family Guide / Guía familiar: Senga Nengudi, 2023 (En ingles y español)
Meet Senga Nengudi, an artist who uses surprising materials to help us think about how we can use our bodies to explore sculpture.
Recommended for preschool- and elementary-aged learners.
Nasher Mobile Guide Online: Senga Nengudi
Nengudi is best known for her sculpture and performance works that speak to the fragility and resilience of the human body, individual agency, and the importance of collaboration and friendship. Her practice has come to encompass poetic, enigmatic objects and installations alongside performances, films, and photography. Over a career spanning more than five decades, Nengudi’s achievements have had a significant impact on contemporary art history.
Recommended for secondary and adult learners.
Video
Senga Nengudi - 2023 Nasher Prize Laureate
Nasher Public: New Art by Texas Artists
Ongoing / Learn more
Family Guide: What Is Public Art?
Learn how a work of art can become an important part of a community and create a proposal for your own public artwork.
Recommended for elementary-aged learners.
Nasher Collection Artworks
Mini Project: Design a giant sculpture inspired by Mark di Suvero's Eviva Amore
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Video: Build Your Own Tour - Eviva Amore by Mark di Suvero
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Mini Project: Write a script about everyday people inspired by George Segal’s Rush Hour
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Video: Build Your Own Tour - Rush Hour by George Segal
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Artwork Focus: Explore abstraction using Willem de Kooning's Seated Woman
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Video: Build Your Own Tour - Seated Woman by Willem de Kooning
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Artwork Focus: Find inspiration from nature with Henry Moore's Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Video: Build Your Own Tour - Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae by Henry Moore
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Video: Build Your Own Tour - Caress of a Bird by Joan Miró
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Primary Source Resource: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Bronze Crowd
Consider the impact of World War II through a firsthand account by artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. Students are asked to use sculpture as a framework for understanding the behavior of people swayed by the influence of a crowd.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Video: Build Your Own Tour - Bronze Crowd by Madgalena Abakanowicz
Recommended for learners of all ages.
Primary Source Resource: Jean Arp
Students are invited to explore themes of abstraction and collaboratively create Surrealist "automatic drawings" in the style of Jean Arp.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Primary Source Resource: Barbara Hepworth
Discover how Barbara Hepworth was influenced by landscape, materials, and ancient monoliths as she created sculpture. Students are asked to consider their own experiences with the environment and create a collage based upon independent research of ancient sculptures.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Primary Source Resource: Isamu Noguchi
Discover how Noguchi's Gregory (Effigy) draws upon Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and the artist's own experiences in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Primary Source Resource: Joel Shapiro
Artist Joel Shapiro's inventive use of space offers students new perspectives on constructing sculptures with compelling compositions.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Primary Source Resource: Richard Serra
Students are asked to consider how verbs can suggest unique approaches to working with materials, as in the work of artist Richard Serra.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Architecture at the Nasher
Architecture Resource:
Intermediate Level
Information, questions and activities to introduce students to the architecture of the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Architecture Resource: Advanced Level
Detailed information about the architecture of the Nasher Sculpture Center.
Recommended for adult and secondary-aged learners.
Video: Nasher Sculpture Center - Portrait of a Building
Recommended for learners of all ages.
The Nasher Story
Primary Source Resource: The Nasher Collection
Examine the purpose and nature of collecting through the lens of the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection. Students are invited to discuss their own experiences with collecting and to propose an exhibition for the Nasher Garden.
Recommended for intermediate- and secondary-aged learners.
Video: The Nasher Collection - A Tribute to Raymond and Patsy
Recommended for learners of all ages.
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