A multidisciplinary interactive center that combines art, music, literature, history, dance and poetry through a series of low-tech and high-tech learning stations, ranging from a collage table to a state-of-the-art virtual canvas.
Tours allow for first-hand examination of original works of art and are based on an integrated curriculum that supports state standards in the visual arts, math, science and language arts for students in Pre-K through 12th grades.
Comprehensive art education programs for ten inner city schools. The program includes: visits to the museum, outreach in the classrooms, teacher trainings/professional development, Arts and Literacy Festival at each school, FREE Cummer memberships for students and their families, FREE admission to art classes and Camp Cummer.
Provides hands-on art experiences and the chance to view original works of art to over 2,200 children with disabilities. Students in the Exceptional Student Education (ESE) program rotate through art stops in the museum’s galleries and gardens to create art projects, view the collection and listen to live musicians and storytellers.
Provides especially designed art education and art making experiences for individuals who are blind or experience low vision.
- Women of Vision: This program is a unique initiative that brings the visual and literary arts to adult women who are blind and/or experience low-vision.
- Museum tours for students who are blind and/or experience low-vision. Tours include time in the galleries and gardens, as well as art-making and experiences in Art Connections.
- Touch Tours for The Blind: Visually impaired visitors can experience the Museum’s collection through a variety of hands-on experiences.
- Art Beyond Sight Open House: In October, events are held at The Cummer and simultaneously throughout the world, to highlight museum programs for people who are blind.
Workshops provide instruction in the ways which art can be integrated into various subject areas, especially literacy initiatives.
Visitors are admitted FREE to the Museum on four evenings per year. Families are invited to participate in a variety of hands-on art activities, listen to live music, and tour the galleries and gardens.
Visitors are admitted FREE to the Museum every Tuesday evening from 4 to 9 p.m.
Artwork from students in a variety of programs are exhibited in Art Connections throughout the year.
Provide middle and high school-aged students with learning experiences in the visual arts beyond the offerings of a traditional classroom.
Partnership with students and teachers at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.
A collaboration with St. Vincent’s HealthCare, allows The Cummer to provide an arts program for children whose parents are coping with cancer.
Program of tours for ESE students in Duval County Public Schools self-contained classes, teacher training for ESE teachers and therapists and classroom outreach. In addition, this initiative will bring back Arts for All, an art-making concept that allows children and adults with profound physical disabilities to participate in the joy of painting and drawing using specially adapted equipment and materials.
Provide classes, tours, workshops, camps and access to VSA Arts Festival for children on the autism spectrum and their families.
Programs for adults in the areas of art and garden appreciation and art production, through lectures, art-making workshops, concerts, multi-week courses in a variety of art media, volunteer training and accessible classes and tours for adults with disabilities.
Provide exhibition interpretation during Member Openings and other events through multi-arts programming that infuses music, dance, poetry and social commentary in the galleries and gardens.
Especially for Seniors Seated Gallery Talks