Educator resources
Everything you need to bring Bahamian art into your classroom. These resources—from ready-to-use lesson plans to artist profiles and video content—connect your students to the National Collection and help them see art as something alive, relevant, and theirs to explore.
Lesson plans
Browse by artist, grade level, or even themes:
How Art Survives: An Introduction to Conservation
In this lesson, students discover an uncommon career path and see how science, and art history, and craft intersect.
Shapes & Abstraction
Inspired by Kendal Hanna, young students use geometric and organic shapes to create abstract work.
Mixed Media Assemblage: Objects with Memory
Students gather found objects to build three-dimensional assemblages of their favourite places.
Artist profiles
Downloadable PDFs featuring nationally and internationally renowned Bahamian artists from the National Collection.
Stories
Videos
More ways to learn
Library & research
A browsable collection of books and archives for researching Bahamian art and culture
Collection
Discover Bahamian life through art
Guided tours
Explore art through conversation and close looking with our expert guides.
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